Daylilies on Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day – July 15, 2018

The hellstrip has been ready for Bloom Day for a while. Astilbe is ready to finish, but the Achillea, yarrow, coneflowers and daylilies have just begun their bloom days. Daylilies are the major stars right now. The week of days in the high 90s have not  bothered the daylilies one bit. Daylilies are used to heat, and dryness. I do have a list of my daylilies but I never seem to get the name and the flower attached…

Garden Bloggers Bloom Day – June 15-2018 – Roses !

I nearly forgot Garden Bloggers Bloom Day, so I raced out in the dawn to take photos (not very good ones) of what is blooming in the drizzle.  Thomas Affleck is a rose we grew for many years in Heath, and one of the first we planted in Greenfield. It is doing very well indeed.  No real fragrance though. At least I think this is Polar Express. I'll have to wait till  the other roses are blooming to…

Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day – May 15, 2018

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The Texas sun seemed to be shining on these glowing golden primroses on Garden Bloggers Bloom Day. The garden had hardly any blooms when we left for Texas on May  but our return on May 8 was astounding. I am going to  give a thorough pictorial record of our May 15 blooms. I'm behind on my spring clean up and weeding so you'll likely see plenty of weeds. These primroses are increasing nicely. The tall Japanese primroses will…

Garden Bloggers Bloom Day – January 15, 2018

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Bloom Day is here, but there are no blooms outdoors. But for the first time in a couple of years I have blooms in January.  The amaryllis that is opening was an early Christmas present and it grew rapidly. The amaryllis with  buds about to open spent the summer out in my garden and is giving me great gratification Two other amaryllis bulbs that spent the summer in the ground are coming along - slowly. I have hopes.…

An Early Bloom Day – before hard frost

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Will my garden be blooming on November 15. the official Garden Bloggers Bloom Day? Maybe not. Therefore, I went around the garden today taking photos of the flowers blooming this very unusually warm November day. We have yet to have a hard frost although some plants were bitten and succumbed. This is what's left on this gloomy day with a temperature of 50 degrees at 4 in the afternoon Daylight savings left, Eastern Standard time arrived and so…

Bloom Day – September 2017

At the moment I am celebrating Garden Bloggers Bloom Day with a burst of heat - after rain storms and night temperatures that went down to 35 degrees. But many plants are hitting their stride, like this coreopsis - one of several. It turns out the cardinal flowers I planted last year - are a different color than the cardinal flowers I planted this year. But no matter. My mentor, Elsa Bakalar, assured me all shades of red…

Garden Bloggers Bloom Day – August 15, 2017

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Here is the August Bloom Day report. The summer of 2017 has been relatively cool, with only a few days that went over 89 degrees. We  also had rain - almost sufficient to my desires. The hellstrip in front of the house is full of bloom - daylilies, bee balm, yarrow, coneflowers, and marigolds. Weeds and fallen sycamore bark as well. Several of the roses are blooming again. Folksinger, a Griffith Buck rose, is the most enthusiastic. Thomas…

Bloom Day – July 15, 2017

On this July Garden Blogger's Bloom Day in Massachusettss my blooms are quite spread out, although I am looking forward to clusters of blooming daylilies very soon. On our divided hellstrip we have several daylilies. I  got lucky in this section with congenial wine-y colors on the bee balm, daylily and echinacea. There are daylilies in several places in  the garden, but I can guarantee I don't remember many of their names. In between the South and North…

Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day – June 15, 2017

On this June Garden Blogger's Bloom Day the rose have burst into bloom. It has been a cold and wet spring, but  our last couple of days have been in the 90s. The weather gods show just how unpredictable they can be. For me, this spring is is the first really floriferous June we have had.  All the roses but one are new plants and they are really showing off. This peach Drift rose blooms right next to…

Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day, May 15, 2017

This is my first Bloom Day post in quite a while. Here in my corner of western Massachusetts we are having quite a wet spring. Yesterday over 2 inches of rain fell, causing about the worst flooding in the backyard that we have had  so far. Even so, blooms are surviving.  The wood poppy is growing on our hugel so it is not flooded but has plenty of water to drink. There is quite a  golden look to…