Bloom Day, etc.

Hi everyone. I'm still in school... Obviously. The quarter is almost over, and I only have one quarter to go. In the meantime I snuck away from my preparations for finals to visit the garden. I took my iPhone with me. The descent was a little blurry.





It's been raining. A lot. Which is fabulous. The water weighs everything down, and I don't have a lot of flowers right now anyway.





I see some fuchsias, but those pictures didn't come out.



There's this aster.



Oh, and the Ceanothus back there on the left.



I'm sorry to say the buckeye did not flower this year.



Wet soil underneath the birdbath causes it to tip. This is an annual problem that I have not been able to fix. Well, it needs more work than I have yet been willing to perform.





The real excitement in the garden: cherries! A few of them anyway. I have Minnie Royal and Royal Lee. They were bred to need fewer chill hours than the usual varieties. I might not get a big harvest this year, but I am excited!



As always, turn to May Dreams for your monthly Bloom Day fun.

Bloom Day

A lot of the same-old, same-old from me this month... I'm finished with the quarter, obviously, but I haven't had much time to spend in the garden yet. I did a little pruning the other day, but you wouldn't be able to tell. I have seedlings started for planting out in a month or two. Spring wildflowers! In the meantime...

Tibouchina urvilleana

Cestrum elegans



Tweedia caerulea



Salvia 'Jeans' Purple Passion'



Ye olde abutilon



Tithonia diversifolia



Passiflora citrina

minor bloom day post

I have 2 midterms tomorrow. Ugh.

Shasta daisy.



Tithonia diversifolia.



Dahlia imperialis, in its final throes.



Passiflora citrina, vining through a few shrubs.



Fuchsia splendens, sprouting back and bearing flowers after a hard pruning.



Lobelia. Seems to bloom all year long.



Find more blooms, and better conversation, at May Dreams. Back to the books for me.

Bloom Day

I missed last month. Did you notice? Sigh.

I got a few pictures in the rain today. Ceanothus and Fuchsia boliviana 'Alba' both becoming too large for the small space. Not that I really care.



I thought it peaked a couple weeks ago. Maybe not.





Hardenbergia violacea has definitely peaked. The flowers are all over the place now. But it still looks nice from the garden.



The other Fuchsia boliviana is getting all lanky and interesting. Still just gearing up to its full bloom capacity however. The Echium pininana (with somewhat ragged leaves on the right) is going to flower this year. I have two, and I think both of them will, actually. That will be great. I can't wait.



Fuchsia splendens, almost flowers.



Rosa mutabilis totally collapsed in the rain. It looks like a dollop of pink, melty ice cream.



but the purple Princess carries on.



Some small daffodils



And signs of things to come.

Bloom Day

Usually for January Bloom Day I just put up a few pictures of Hardenbergia violacea and call it a day. Unfortunately, I had to prune that vine a few months ago. That seems to have set its bloom back a few weeks. (Although I haven't noticed them blooming around town yet either. Hmm.)

Anyway, it looks like this currently:



There are a few flowering panicles.





I haven't spent more than one afternoon in the garden since October. I'm averaging about an hour or two a week. That's a significant deviation from the mean for me; I've practically lived back there since I started to garden 5 years ago. We're planning to move when I finish school in another year, hopefully to a bigger garden (otherwise, why move). Am I detaching from this one? No, I'm just very busy with school. It's probably a good thing. Let the garden grow without my constant meddling.

I will say I wonder if I will miss this garden when it's gone. I'll replace it with a new one but I'll always have the blog to remember it with.

Now then, Bloom Day. We have a few things, but not much.

















I know I should tell you their names, but I'm kind of tired of saying their names. Does that ever happen to you? Here is a plant with a name I never get tired of saying, The Marble Gardens Mystery Rose. So how do I visit Marble Gardens, and what else is growing there?



I'll come back tonight and add the Bloom Day link May Dreams, but you can go there now and read about Ida Bennett, (part 1, part 2)

ADDED: For more Bloom Day action, go visit May Dreams Gardens.

ADDED: I got an answer to my question about Marble Gardens! @AnniesAnnuals says, "b/c annij calls her garden "marble gardens" from all of the marbles she's found in it & the rose is a mystery http://ow.ly/3E9vw." Check out Anni J's garden at that link!

Bloom Day!

Suddenly, it's Bloom Day! How did that happen?

There is not much blooming in the garden, but a couple things that are blooming are doing so prolifically. I am going to drive that point home by showing you multiple pictures of the same plant.

I worried a little bit when Tithonia diversifolia started to bloom in October. Did that mean it wouldn't bloom in December and January? Apparently, no.



The subtle chocolate scent from the flowers is nice if you remember to sniff for it.



They do a pretty good job holding up in the vase too. They last a week for me.



Cestrum elegans, weighed down recent rain:



I don't know what it's like in the vase. This plant is even more florific than than Tithonia, although I seem to have taken the same picture twice.



Elsewhere there are stray blooms.



Fuchsia boliviana 'Alba' has candy-cane colors, doesn't it.



I can always find Abutilon flowers. This is one of the oldest plants in my garden. I've moved it many times, but it's going to stay here with the cordyline from now on.



Passiflora citrina promises future flowers. Imminent flowers, really. If Bloom Day was tomorrow, we'd have a bloom.



That will do it for me this month. You can visit May Dreams Gardens in Indiana for much more.