Garden Blogger Bloom Day June 2020

We are "knee deep in June," as a dear gardening friend likes to say, quoting James Whitcomb Riley. And it is Garden Bloggers Bloom Day. I have been away from garden blogging for about five years, so it is time to get back at it! Here are some of the joys of my garden around the house today.

Of course, Iris season continues.

 

Lupins are well-loved here in Nova Scotia, and the ones that volunteer in my beds sometimes surprise me with their colour. But Blue is a great colour, too, and there is plenty of that just now.

  

I have two Korean Dogwoods planted out front. They started off quite small. The white one has never bloomed. But this year, the pink one is about to, for the first time.

I love pure white blooms, and this uncommon perennial, Cruel Plant (Cynanchum ascyrifolium), is just starting its long, showy season.

A month ago I moved May Apples from the Cottage up here to Digby, under the wild Apple tree in the front yard. They are doing just fine!

It is a subtle bloom, but the main attraction of this delicate Euphorbia is the foliage. I must search out a name for this one. It comes up from seed here and there nicely. (Despite the weeds, which are not getting much attack from me yet.)

And here are a few last bits of colour showing up in my oh-so-untended garden. Check out all the other blogs for Bloom Day, as listed at May Dreams Gardens. See you all next month on the 15th... or sooner. 

Fall is the new Spring

Colchicum

Plants like 'Fall Crocus' keep the Cottage blooming.  In fact, it has been more colourful out there for the past few wet weeks than it was much of the dry summer.  No surprise there.  Some of the plants are those that finally show off, in this season...

Burning Bush, Euonymus alatus

White Snakeroot, Eupatorium rugosum 'chocolate'

Aster, Symphyotrichum ____

Some of the species are still blooming.  The Rudbeckia, for instance, got the old flowers cut off a few weeks ago, and perhaps this encouraged a whole new crop of flower buds.

Rudbeckia nitida

Actaea racemosa, Black Snakeroot

Some of the foliage is having spring now.  Not just the luxurious grass in the lawn I can't keep ahead of... the Italian Arum, invisible in August, is sending up its leaves now, which will withstand the cold Nova Scotia winter.  And a new Pieris is covered in flower buds, as if it is going to bloom soon.  I assume it waits for spring.

Arum italicum, Italian Arum

Pieris _______

Then there is the scattering of out-of-season blossoms that randomly appear.  Look for them and you will find them.

Dianthus, Pinks

Aurinia saxatilis, Basket of Gold

Kniphofia, Red Hot Poker

My hope is these will all thrive for a few more weeks.  Out at the Cottage we seem to get frost later than we do inland.  This morning (October 13) we have patchy frost at home.  I assume there is none at the cottage this morning. 

     May your frost come late to your garden this year!