It’s been a dry one the past month – we’ve only had about 2.5 inches of rain. So, lots of supplemental watering for my newly planted plants. Luckily I still have a lot of June blooms around the garden! One of my favorite new flowers in my garden is this butterfly weed I started from […]
May Blooms – 2019
April Blooms 2019
Spring is here, and I am so happy to show off the April blooms in my garden! The daffodils really started to show off towards the end of March and the beginning of April. Daffodils Galore I planted 160 bulbs from Longfield Gardens in the fall from the “Fragrant Daffodil Collection” and the “Naturalizing Mix”. […]
March Blooms – 2019
February Blooms – 2019
January Blooms – 2019
Weather has been a roller coaster so far this winter. Some weeks it feels like winter and other weeks it feels like spring. Some bulbs have started to come up. I’ve seen other people have snowdrops and daffodils flowering, but mine didn’t get that far before the freezing weather came back. I’ve never grown spring-flowering […]
Plants that Bloom in December
Not surprisingly, there are very few plants blooming in my garden right now (as opposed to previous months), but there are some standouts. The camellias, for one, are stunning! Even after a freeze knocks out some blooms, new ones come back. For this month’s Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day, I only have a few blooms to […]
Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – November 2018
So…I wrote this post last week, and was literally bragging about the mild weather while I had been seeing snow on other peoples’ feeds. Well, I guess it’s just winter now? I wasn’t expecting to have much of anything still blooming since last month, and up until early this week, everything described below was still […]
Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – October 2018
Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – September 2018
Most of the flowers I have in the garden are starting to fade, but I have a few still going! For this Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day in September 2018, I’m happy that some of the flowers I’ve planted have very long bloom times. The crepe myrtles, hydrangeas, and dahlias are still going strong; the lantanas […]