in bloom now?
- Subject: in bloom now?
- From: S* C*
- Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:34 -0500
What's in bloom now in your garden?
We have lots of tiny blue flowers of forget-me-nots, the
wine-colored blooms of knautia, yellow flag iris and a few remaining blue
siberians, lots of hardy geraniums in different colors, like phaeum,
sanguineum, cinereum, magnificum, and psilostemon.
There are still a few herbaceous peonies (the tree peonies, alas,
are finished for the year). The digitalis lutea (tiny pale yellow "fairy
gloves") are starting up and the lychnis coronaria (magenta flowered rose
campions with white felty leaves) as well.
White meidland shrub rose, zepherin druon, some David Austin English
roses that survived the winter, and the reliable tiny-flowered pink fairy
rose are in bloom, along with many lovely clematis in purple, pink, and wine
colors.
The small campanulas are showing lovely blue bells in the raised
beds and oak barrells and they look nice with yellow and orange violas. The
blue columbines are still going strong as well, and the pink oenothera
speciosa is starting to bloom. The dwarf double super fragrant mockorange is
great right now. The dropmore scarlet honeysuckle is outdoing itself already
despite (because of?) a severe fall pruning.
A tall weigela with red flowers is loaded with bloom (can't remember
the name). Amsonia tiny pale blue stars are still out but finishing. The
dark blue pea flowers of the baptisia are still going strong. Husker red
penstemon (white flowers, red stems) are super this year. In the shade
beds, there are nice tall dainty blooms on the heuchera, some yellow wood
poppy still showing, rue anemone, meadow rue (magnificent this year),
astilbes, two tiny adorable blue and white flowers on the first year
omphalodes starry eyes, and--no blooms of course, but fronds in abundance
on the many ferns in this cool spring.
The mixed allium in yellow, pink, and magenta are still bright in
the bulb border. Nepeta is in bloom inside the cat run. Lots of charming
dianthus in all shades of pink and red are blooming along with blue
veronicas and orange helianthemum in the raised rock garden beds. The
astrantia is blooming for the first time--strange but interesting dusky
reddish flowers.
I apologize to all the little and big beauties that I've omitted
because I'm just going from this morning's memory on the way to the
office...fortunately, the garden in the mind's eye contains no weeds.
Happy Gardening!
Susan and David in Urbana, Illinois, zone 5b
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