The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. ![]() Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. “We can have flowers nearly every month of the year.” ~ Elizabeth Lawrence The rules are simple… no rules! You can include pictures, lists, no lists, common names, botanical names, whatever you’d like to do to showcase your blooms. Linky widget below along with a brief comment to let us know you’ve posted. Just post on your blog about what is blooming this month in your garden and then come back here and leave a link to your blog post in the Mr. We’d love to have you share your blooms on the 15th of each month by joining us with your own Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day post. What’s blooming in your garden in this month of May? And because it is a slow spring, I think I’ll have time to enjoy it all. The quamash is in bloom and will soon be joined by blue dogbane, ox-eye daisies, and salvia. I have strawberries blooming in the Vegetable Garden Cathedral and tulips still blooming in the front garden. There is more blooming in my garden – after all it’s May. I think once it finishes blooming, I’m going to figure out how to cut it back just a little bit. It does not store any personal data.This is Virbunum opulus ‘Sterile’. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". The SZummer of Zinnias Part II, taking place in my garden in 2017. My plan for next year? I’m going to buy more varieties of zinnias and sow them again. I never thought to label the zinnias when I planted them throughout the veg garden, so I could guess which flower came from which collection, but it would just be a guess. When the seedlings came up, I thinned them to about six inches apart, give or take, to give them a little room. In late May, I roughed up the ground a bit, sowed the seeds, and covered them lightly. ‘Granny’s Bouquet’ and ‘Cool Crayon Colors’ from Renee’s Garden (sent to me to try). ‘Fireball Blend’ and ‘Northern Lighs Blend’ from Botanical Interests (purchased) Orange you glad I showed you all the zinnias? They are also pretty before they are fully open. They are as tall as the okra behind them. But between then and now, there are plenty of weeks to enjoy the zinnias. ![]() The zinnias really are on their best behavior. ![]() And by ideal I mean virtually no Japanese beetles have attacked the zinnias and I have yet to see any powdery mildew on any of them. ![]() It’s the SZummer of Zinnias.įour packets of zinnias was all it took, along with what seems to be the ideal growing conditions this summer. I toyed briefly with gladiolus, went through a brief affair with all those different colors of coneflowers, and of course, there were those violets grown from seed.Īnyway, this summer my flower affair is with zinnias. There was the summer of sunflowers when I sowed seeds for every sunflower variety I could find.Īnd then there was a summer decades ago when I tried to grow every kind of easy to dry flower, like gomphrena and strawflower, I could find. In my gardening past, there was the summer of daylilies, when I acquired all kinds of daylilies. Every year, it seems like a particular flower, maybe one I’ve grown for decades, captures my imagination.
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