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.
 |
| '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 |
 |
| Not 100% sure but I think this is Aubretia |
 |
| Fritillaria meleagris |
 |
| Primula 'Sunset Shades' has sown itself throughout one of my shade beds as well as into the gravel |
 |
| 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 |
 |
| Perhaps not such a great companion to this Trillium, which I think is Trillium Kurabayashii |
 |
| Another Trillium in the same bed, possibly Trillium luteum |
 |
| Camellia 'April Kiss' |
 |
| Dicentra 'Valentine' |
 |
| 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 |
 |
| Grevillea 'Canberra Gem' flowering sparsely because it looks like many of its buds were damaged by our February snow |
 |
| Ribes speciosum |
 |
| Brunnera macrophylla |
 |
| Yellow Epimedium whose name is lost |
 |
| Another Primula (P. marginata, I think) |
 |
| Honesty/Lunaria annua |
 |
| Camellia 'Black Magic' |
 |
| Camellia 'Black Magic' |
 |
| Erysimum 'Blood Red' which has a sweet scent that's hard to describe, sort of like fruity candy |
 |
| Pieris japonica |
 |
| Ribes sanguineum |
 |
| Pulsatilla vulgaris |
 |
| Pulsatilla vulgaris |
 |
| Erythronium |
 |
| Erythronium 'Pagoda' |
 |
| Dodecatheon and Anemones |
 |
| Yellow Corydalis |
 |
| Arisaema sikokianum starting to unfold |
 |
| Only a few days ago it looked very much like a scary, clawed hand pushing up out of the soil |
 |
| 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.
 |
| Golden rat-tail cactus |
 |
| 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.
