On this Garden Bloggers Bloom Day, most of my bloomers are roses, but this sage plant is right outside the back door and I love it! I'll never use that much sage, but it is beautiful. Zaide is one of my favorite roses. I appreciate that it was more than 30 years ago that the German Kordes hybridizers were making sturdy disease resistant roses that would not need insecticides. They were way ahead of the US in creating…
It is not difficult to find flowers for every season. Many spring flowers have decided it is time to take a nap until next April. If it weren’t for the fact that summer bloomers were beginning to show their colors I’d be very depressed. Like many of us my spring garden began with bulb flowers like scillas, crocuses, daffodils and tulips of every sort. In my May garden fringed bleeding hearts and a goldheart bleeding heart showed their…
Echinacea otherwise known as coneflower is a wonderful perennial. It is a sturdy plant. Echinacea purpurea is ideal for bees because they see those landing strips (petals) and right on to the nectar and pollen. There are many many new Echinacea varieties, but if you want to attract and feed the bees, simpler flowers are more beneficial. Behind the Echinacea in the photo above you can see a blossom of the Eryngium, sea holly, which looks spiky but…
On the 15th of May the garden is blooming with creeping blue phlox, Troillus, grape hyacinths, tiarella, barren strawberry and a single rhododendron blossom. We love flowers but other elements can make a welcoming garden. There are useful items that can also be decorative and colorful. Water has long been known to be an important element in the garden. We only have a blue birdbath, but the birds make good use of it. In my travels I have…
The pandemic has demanded many changes in our life. If we can’t go to work or to school we have to stay at home. The New York Times has read the zeitgeist and created a new section for their Sunday edition titled At Home. The large front page image has a child playing on the floor with his toys, while mom sits at a table thoughtfully putting together a jigsaw puzzle while another member of the household is…
On this beautiful sunny, but cool Garden Blogger's Bloom Day in Massachusetts, I'll take you along on my morning walk. The fringed bleeding heart has been blooming for a month against our house foundation. I thank Carol over at May Dreams Gardens, for giving us Bloom Day, giving us all a chance to see what is blooming all over our great land.
A few days ago I asked readers if they recognized some plants that I could not identify. They came through, but no one could identify these two plants. That was understandable because they are so crowded together. I dug and pulled the more velvety plant away from the lacy plant. I planted it and waiting to see what would happen. I still do not know what the lacy plant is. The mystery plant, about 7 or 8 inches…
This spring I am finding daffodils growing everywhere. My approach to 'Garden Design' is fairly catch as catch can. When autumn arrives I think I must add some spring bulbs! Last year I bought several little bags at the Greenfield Farmers Coop of different varieties. I did not pay attention to bloom times, but this spring proves I got lucky. I went around the garden, which was still full of autumnal plants, if not blooms, and when I…
The bed of grape hyacinths doubled, and now they are growing right before my eyes. The growth was a great and lovely surprise. These snow drops lived up to their name and shone through a snowfall. Just a small snowfall, but still. Don't ask me to discuss nomenclature of daffodils and jonquils. I am just enjoying groups of these sunny flowers that I rather carelessly planted here and there. Lucky for me they are coming into bloom at…
Never have I seen the garden begin to show itself in so many bits and starts. Over the past two weeks we have had warm days and cold days, and rainy days that transform the garden into a swamp. But I am so excited at what I have. I put daffodils here and there, in front of the house and in the main garden. Through no planning of my own they have different bloom times so there are…