Tangled Branches: Cultivated
happenings in and around my zone 6b gardens in northern Virginia and in central Virginia
Monday, July 16, 2007
Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day + 1
A little late, but worth the wait? Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day snuck up on me this month.
Many of these are worth a post all to themselves.....maybe later.....
In the meantime, here's my bloomin' list (links are to my photos):
- Northern Virginia
- Daylilies: Stella d'Oro, Squash Tempura, Apricot Petticoats
- Oriental Lily 'Muscadet'
- Echinacea
- Rudbeckia hirta (Gloriosa Daisies)
- Rudbeckia fulgida 'Goldsturm'
- Coreopsis verticillata 'Moonbeam'
- Galium 'Victor Jones'
- Calamintha nepetoides
- Passiflora incarnata
- Hibiscus syriacus 'Blue Satin' (Rose-of-Sharon)
- Ceratostigma plumbaginoides (Plumbago)
- Hostas: Golden Tiara, and one big blue-purple flowered one
- Salvia guarantica 'Black and Blue'
- Verbena bonariensis
- Mirabilis (Four O'Clocks)
- Agastache with purple-magenta flowers
- Asclepias tuberosa (just starting its second flush of flowers)
- and Some Hangers-on (way past their prime): Mystery Clematis, various yellow sedums, Shasta Daisy
- Annuals: Petunias, Lantanas, Cleome, Cosmos 'Picotee', Alyssum 'Snowdrift' & 'Navy Blue', Salvia fariniacea 'Strata' & 'Evolution', Salvia viridis, Torenia 'Duchess Mix', Scabiosa 'Blue Cockade', Nicotiana, Ipomoea coccinea (aka luteola), Cupheas (I really should do a longer post about these)
- Central Virginia
- Mostly Annuals: Mimulus 'Mystic Mix', Lantana 'Dallas Red', Petunia 'Surfinia Red' and others, Cupheas, Amaranthus 'Marvel Bronze', Tagetes lucida, Portulaca 'Sundial Peach', Salvia farinacea 'Strata' & 'Evolution'
- Vegetables: Tomatoes, Peppers, Eggplant
- Herbs: Basils, Dill, Thymes, Horehound
- Echinacea 'Harvest Moon'
- Coreopsis verticillata 'Zagreb'
- Salvia guaranitica 'Black & Blue'
- Verbena hastata 'Pink Spires'
- Wildflowers: Black-eyed Susans, Queen Anne's Lace, Yarrow, Erigeron, Buttonbush, Goldenrod, and others
- Honorary flowers: Coleus, butterflies, dragonflies
Thanks, Carol!
Labels: in bloom
11 Comments:
Definitely worth the wait. That's quite a list of flowers.
Thanks for participating in Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day!
Carol at May Dreams Gardens
I came to visit your Bloom Day and was impressed by your plants and photos. Well done.
Wow! great shot of the dragonfly. I'm impressed. I could never get that close to one especially the larger ones that this seems to be. Wonderful lily too. As I mentioned to Annie about her lily, it looks like the one in a painting by John Singer Sargent.
Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose From the jssgallery.org site. Everytime I see an Asiatic lily, I think of that painting with the little girls lighting the lanterns.
What beautiful blooms, dear Entangled.The Cleome looks lovely.
Carol: And thank you again for hosting!
Digital Flower Pictures: Thanks for stopping by and thanks for the nice compliment!
Ki: It was a lucky shot, I think. The Eastern Pondhawk is pretty good-sized, but we have some others that are so big they look like helicopters. I've never seen one of those perched long enough to know what it really looks like. I get the impression that dragonflies don't like to be photographed.
That painting by John Singer Sargent is lovely - thanks for that link. I hadn't seen it before.
Green Thumb: Thank you for the compliment. I haven't yet reached India on my Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day tour, but I'll be right over. :-) Isn't the internet wonderful?
I agree, that dragonfly is cool! All I have are small ones, never realized they get big, too! And of course your flowers are pretty-cleome still eludes me, almost seems everyone can grow it but me! :(
Lisa: I've had trouble germinating cleome in seed flats, but those were direct-sown in early spring. It will also self-sow for me, but I get in anti-cleome moods (the foliage really stinks, literally) and pull it all out for a few years. Then I miss it and plant it again.
What lovely blooms... that 'Muscadet' is a real beauty. I'm interested in knowing more about the 'Victor Jones' galium--is it quite a bit taller than sweet woodruff (or lady's bedstraw?) and is it fragrant?
Also, how do you work horhound into your garden design? I love its silvery leaves and even like the smell, but I just can't figure out an artful way to include it. Any thoughts?
Blackswamp Girl: The 'Victor Jones' Galium is a tall, sprawly thing - maybe about 3 ft. when flowering. Mine is in semi-shade. The leaves look like sweet woodruff, but not the same bright green color - more dull and grayer. I haven't noticed any fragrance. It blooms in a haze of tiny white flowers - a lot like baby's breath, but the stems are softer. I got mine from Bluestone Perennials, but I don't see it on their website now.
The horehound is growing as an edging on one section of my so-called potager. I started it from seed this year, and I had planned to put it in a "herbal hedge" which I hoped would function as a critter barrier to the vegetable garden. I didn't get that part dug up this spring, however, and so the plants that were destined for it are now scattered in various places. Anyhow, it's funny you asked about it because I was just musing about the leaves. They're sort of an unusual color - darker gray than many. I think it might look good in front of some of the taller, lighter-colored Artemisias. I think 'Powis Castle' would be great, but I'm considering trying it next to some wormwood, which I also started from seed this year. The horehound flowers are very small, practically invisible, but the bees and butterflies are all over them. I counted 4 azure-type butterflies on one plant last weekend.
Thanks so much for all of the answers... I picked up some horehound this morning, actually, anticipating that you might give me some good ideas on how to use it!
I love the idea of using it in front of other silvery things, and I probably wouldn't have come up with that on my own. My 'Powis Castle' artemisia is a little thick where it resides so I can't really put anything in front of it... but I have other silvery things to try it with. I'll let you know where it ends up. :)
Blackswamp Girl: I snipped off a little piece of horehound and put it next to the wormwood to see how it looked. There wasn't as much contrast in the leaf colors as I thought there was, which illustrates neatly how our color perceptions are influenced by texture.
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