Hey, it's already mid-April, which means it's Garden Bloggers Bloom Day again. I neglected to do a GBBD post for March, because I was away and there wasn't much to show anyway. But things are starting to ramp up a bit now.
Here for your perusal are some quickly taken, badly focused pictures of what's blooming in my garden, along with a bit of rambling discourse about them. I didn't bother trying to do extreme closeups in the attempt to make sure you didn't see any of the weeds and winter debris still strewn about the garden that I haven't gotten around to cleaning up yet. I've been focused on redoing a couple of beds in the front garden at the expense of tidying.
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'Princess Irene' Tulip with the early foliage of Gerald Darby Iris - a nice vignette when not overcome with weeds, dead leaves and stems and last year's old, dead iris foliage |
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Not 100% sure but I think this is Aubretia |
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Fritillaria meleagris |
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Primula 'Sunset Shades' has sown itself throughout one of my shade beds as well as into the gravel |
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It makes a nice companion for the orange Epimedium, which for the second year in a row I have neglected to cut back the old foliage |
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Perhaps not such a great companion to this Trillium, which I think is Trillium Kurabayashii |
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Another Trillium in the same bed, possibly Trillium luteum |
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Camellia 'April Kiss' |
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Dicentra 'Valentine' |
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Arctostaphylos, whose branches look a bit cockamamie because the entire shrub toppled over sideways in our February snow and I haven't gotten around to righting it yet |
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Grevillea 'Canberra Gem' flowering sparsely because it looks like many of its buds were damaged by our February snow |
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Ribes speciosum |
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Brunnera macrophylla |
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Yellow Epimedium whose name is lost |
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Another Primula (P. marginata, I think) |
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Honesty/Lunaria annua |
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Camellia 'Black Magic' |
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Camellia 'Black Magic' |
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Erysimum 'Blood Red' which has a sweet scent that's hard to describe, sort of like fruity candy |
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Pieris japonica |
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Ribes sanguineum |
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Pulsatilla vulgaris |
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Pulsatilla vulgaris |
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Erythronium |
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Erythronium 'Pagoda' |
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Dodecatheon and Anemones |
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Yellow Corydalis |
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Arisaema sikokianum starting to unfold |
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Only a few days ago it looked very much like a scary, clawed hand pushing up out of the soil |
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Trillium whose name I've lost |
In the greenhouse are a couple of plants with buds that are close to opening. It's not Garden Bloggers Bud Almost Open Day, but I'm showing them anyway.
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Golden rat-tail cactus |
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Adenium obesum |
That's about it for my garden! I hope you have something blooming in April to show for GBBD. I know some parts of the country are suffering from bad weather and have even been hit by mid-April snow.
Carol at May Dreams Gardens hosts Garden Bloggers Bloom Day, check out her post
here.