Bloom Day July 2020

'Tis Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day, and things are flowering all over the yard here in Digby, weeds included; I will feature just one of them. After quite a dry spell, here in Nova Scotia, we've been catching up on the rains, and will continue. Just in time.

Monkshood

 

Korean Bellflower

 

 I do love true blues. The purples and mauves and lavenders are also fine with me. White is also a favorite of mine.

St. Bernard's Lily

A small Foxglove

Shasta Daisies 

Goatsbeard (with a Banana)

This little Pitcher Plant, below, was slow emerging again in a galvanized tub bog garden, and did not bloom, but the leaves are a good as any flower to me.

Do enjoy the many blogs posted on the 15th of each month on May Dreams Gardens for GBBD. Thanks, Carol, for continuing to have us all share our mid-month marvels.

Coreopsis & Rose Campion

Cup Plant

Bloom Day October '14

So October Garden Bloggers Bloom Day is here already.  I got over to the Cottage for a day, and caught up on the colours of the season.  The short asters,  below, certainly are becoming drifts.  Time to split them up and share the wealth next year.

 

The last roses are slowly fading, and the taller asters keep popping up everywhere.  

The little chrysanthemums, above, were a gift in June.  They were blooming at the time.  Here they are at twice the size, blooming again.  The only other way they could surpass this would be if they survived the winter and bloomed next year.

You may see that I roughly propped up the fading foliage of the peonies to make way for 'fall crocus.'
Enjoy this happy Bloom Day.  Visit May Dreams Gardens for flowers from around the globe. 

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!

Blooming the Second Mile

We have just turned the calendar over to September, and summer soldiers on.  At the cottage, it's great to have some repeat bloomers.  And some plants that come into flower are a surprise.  I did expect the Crocus Rose to keep on producing its wonderfully scented blooms, and it has.  Ivory, turning yellower, and then a bit pink-speckled by the time the petals fall, these blossoms are great.  

I may need to plant one here in the town where I now live, 150 kms away from the Cottage.  Another rose that is just starting another flush of flowers is The Fairy.  Here it is this first week of September (in the foreground)...

This 'little' rose is getting bigger than I had planned.  I should have known better. Here it is back on July 19th.  

 Another white blossom that is 'going the second mile' is very white indeed: Wild Quinine, Parthenium integrifolium.  This single plant was blooming back in July...  

 ...and has not stopped. I cut off the first flower stalk this week - old and brown - and later stems keep presenting those pure white blossoms.

This is a perennial I grew from seed.  Sprouted in the spring of 2012, I had only two that arose last spring, and but one of them survived.  Here it is back in May of 2013...

It grew up and actually bloomed last year.  This season, it keeps sending up new flowering stalks.  Hopefully I can propagate this.  
     One other plant started from seed surprised me by blooming this month.  A shrub called Shrubby Bushclover, Lespedeza bicolor.  Things like this keep catching my attention, when seeds are offered or other bloggers present them.  I have never seen this... until I grew my own. 
     A couple of the tiny plants I started from seed last spring are blooming now.  

These are not very big.  They should, as the years go by, mound up and become great shrubs, blooming with this vibrant colour in September each year.  I must choose their permanent locations carefully.  
     Here is what they looked like in June of last year.  How could I be anything but very happy with the progress of the Shrubby Bushclover? 

Not sure why I labelled it Lespedeza c.  I'm pretty sure it is L. bicolor. :)

Here it is this week, already blooming.  I don't usually think of shrubs starting to bloom in their second year from seed, but three of my seedlings are mature enough to do this:

May these final weeks of summer bring you a great show of flowers and foliage, and a few surprises.