September Bloom Day '14 - Digby, Nova Scotia

Crocosmia 'Lucifer'?

One of the best things about "Garden Bloggers Bloom Day" is the way it prompts a person like me to get out with the camera, post on my blog, and then surf the net to enjoy the blooms from around the world.  Thanks to May Dreams Gardens for hosting this monthly extravaganza!  

Above - Coreopsis, Sedum & Corcosmia
Below - Iceberg and Campfire Roses

 

An Aster (I won't attempt the new genus name yet)

So, here at my new home, in my new town, I have ready-made perennial borders all around.  We have started to make them our own... ripping out many hostas and bringing in some of our own things.  The blossoms this summer - on what was already here - have been quite good.  

Another Aster

Above - a little Echinacea
Below - a little Buddleja and a little Eupatorium
Yes, these three are all shorter cultivars.

 

It so happens that quite of few of these species in bloom today are new plants we have introduced.  The renovations will continue into the fall, I'm sure, including the planting of a few spring bulbs.  I've not seen any sign of a spring bulb anywhere in these beds.

Above - Achillea
Below - Hemerocallis and a late Lupinus

 

A vibrantly-blooming Strawberry, Fragaria

A Begonia that will soon need to be rescued from frosty weather

The last of the Phlox that have been blooming - lots of these in the beds on this property

Enjoy your bloom day!

Bloom Day, August '14

Cynanchum ascyrifolium, "Cruel Plant"

We got to enjoy a day or so at the Cottage this week.  Amid the weeds are many things I planted, in bloom.  

Cruel Plant & Rudbeckia hirta

Coreopsis virticiliata - Thread Leaved Coreopsis

Silphium perfoliatum - Cup Plant

Heliopsis ____

Daylily season continues... I don't have mine labelled, though I do have lists somewhere that tell me the names. 

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Eryngium ____ & Hydrangea paniculata 'Limelight'

Echinops ritro - Globe Thistle

Hydrangea "Invincibelle Spirit"

Hydrangea arborescens 'Annabelle'

Asclepias incarnata - Swamp Milkweed

Allium  _____

A late, random bloom on Chaenomeles japonica - Flowering Quince

Lilium 'Stargazer'?

Helenium sp. - Sneezeweed, or Helen's Flower

Yeah, that last picture is of a rather obscure plant - at least, to me.  This little thing is blooming in its second year from seed! It is less than two feet high.  A member of the Euphorbia family, it is likely the only woody Euphorb to live outdoors here in Nova Scotia.  Same family as Cushion Spurge, and the Poinsettia, not to mention quite a few succulents that resemble cacti.

Rudbeckia lacinata 'hortensia' - Goldenglow

This is the end of my Cottage shots for this month's Garden Blogger's Bloom Day.  Check out many more blogs at May Dreams Gardens.  :)

Rose 'Crocus'

Daylily Daze in Annapolis Royal

It's high season for Day Lilies here in Nova Scotia, Canada, so a visit to the nearby Historic Gardens in Annapolis Royal, was in order.  

Of course, other things add to the spectacle.  Such as this Hydrangea.  I think it was 'Blue Billows.'  I am a big fan of blue hydrangeas.  And, as the photos draw closer, check out the minuscule mass of blue confetti on the ground below this bush...

This garden has been in the works for, uh, about thirty years.  In the summer of '93 I lived in Anna Ro, and got myself a season pass to the gardens.  This month we moved nearby, and I got a season pass as a gift for Father's Day.  I will enjoy my regular visits thoroughly.

I hope you blog-readers each get to enjoy some public gardens near you all season long.

Belated Bloom Day July '13

Left my camera home when I was at the Cottage yesterday, so I'm catching up today.  I have not yet visited Carol's May Dreams Gardens to connect with many other Garden Blogger Bloom Day posts.  Check it out on the 15th of each month.

  The hot, muggy weather here is fine with most plants... roses and day lilies are thriving.  Lot's of things putting on a show.

 I'm so glad last year's seedlings of cup plant (Silphium perfoliatum) are doing so well.  The plants are certainly robust, and just starting to bloom this past weeekend.  I will need to move them before next year.

The blooms of agave-leaved sea holly (Eryngium agavifolium) are subtle, but the structure of the whole plant is spectacular.  Growing perennials from seed is encouraging when a neat-o plant like this arises!

     A weed I collected this spring that is not too common in the province is viper's bugloss (Echium vulgare); it's great to get another true blue flower.  No offence intended toward good ole Clematis 'Jackmanii'.

 

I will say the day lily season is starting with a bang.

 

The bleeding heart, below, should bloom for quite a while.  Collected from my parent's home, it likely was planted years before by my paternal grandmother.  I like to think so, anyway.

I love the late-blooming azaleas, so I bought this reddish one just the other day.  Has a nice fragrance too.  I think it is named "Millennium."

     And the roses keep blooming... This is a moss rose I collected in a nearby ditch a decade ago.

 These final shots - for those who are curious - are of dyer's greenwood (Genista tinctoria).  A couple seedlings were kindly given to me by some friends here in Hants County.  First saw this plant blooming in Cape Breton, where it is wildly prolific in one North Sydney neighbourhood.

Good luck gardening AND blogging.  I can't seem to catch up with either... but am having fun trying!