What's Blooming?
Spirea x vanhouttei (Bridal Wreath)
Last week I was still wearing a coat and gloves. Today, it's in the 90's! The garden is bursting with color. Some of my favorites have come and gone, like the lilacs and the bridal wreath (above, last week). But the roses and irises have begun to open, and some of my spring bloomers are still going strong!
Here is an overview of some of my garden areas:
Side lawn, looking north. I like to keep the grass tall, especially this time of year. It really keeps the weeds away!
Pond Garden. It's looking mighty overgrown!
Woodland Garden
I love the color and textures of the garden! Here are some close-ups of the flowers that are in bloom today (and some close-ups of non-flowers that have beautiful textures and colors).
Thalictrum aquilegifolium (Meadow Rue)
Thalictrum aquilegifolium (Meadow Rue)
Euphorbia cyparissias (Spurge)
Weigela florida "Varigata"
Corydalis lutea
Heuchera "Bressingham Hybrid" (Coral Bells)
Amsonia tabernaemontana (Willow Blue Star)
Papaver orientale "Prince of Orange" (Oriental Poppies)
Papaver orientale "Prince of Orange" (Oriental Poppies)
Heuchera "Marmalade" (Coral Bells). I grow this for the leaves!
Lupinus polyphyllus "Russel's Hybrids" (Lupines)
Wild onions
Rosa Rugosa "Wildberry Breeze"
Rosa rugosa "Blanc Double de Coubert"
Aruncus dioicus (Goat's Beard)
Brunnera macrophylla (Siberian Bugloss)
Wild Tall Phlox
Bearded Iris "Proud Tradition"
Bearded Iris "Proud Tradition"
Yellow Bearded Iris
Peachy Pink Bearded Iris
Iris siberica "Steve" (Siberian Iris)
Clematis "Nelly Moser"
Clematis (unknown variety)
Geranium sanguinium "Johnson's Blue"
Geranium sanguinium "Max Frei" & wild strawberry. I like this color combination!
Ostrich Ferns
Aegopodium podagraria "Variegatum" (Bishop's Weed)
I hope you enjoyed the tour of the garden today. I'll do another garden post when I get more plants blooming!
19 Comments:
The tour of your garden was awesome, flowers are incredibly stunning!
Thanks for sharing.
Nancy
Hi Nancy-
I'm glad you liked the tour! :-)
-Pam
I love your garden! How beautiful! You have some of my favorite flowers. I see your weigela is blooming; mine has buds, but not quite ready to bloom yet.
Hi Katie-
Thank you! I think it's fun to watch the other bloggers south of me to see what's blooming in their gardens. Then I know mine will be next! :-)
-Pam
Wow - you're a great photographer and gardener. The blooms are all lovely, but I'm really taken with the ostrich ferns! I have a spot where they might work really well!
Thanks for sharing your beautiful spring garden.
Hi Leah-
Thanks for the nice words! I really like how my ostrich ferns have gotten fuller the last few years. They were spindly for several years, and it took quite a while for them to spread.
-Pam
My dad would have loved reading your post today. He had a natural green thumb and your first ic of bridal wreath brought so manay childhood memories back. My dad plated bridal wreath as a border from our neighor's yard. It grew so high and was so full and lovely. I used to pick the tiny boquets and dry them for my sisters Tammy dolls. Sea witch
YES the plants are awaking,
My Bridal wreath is beautiful, Iris,forget me nots, Azalea.
My white Rugosa is alway pretty and smells great,The lupins aren't
ready yet..
Love your garden, wish we could swap cuttings.
Sea Witch-
I'm glad the bridal wreath picture brought back some fond childhood memories! I remember loving our neighbor's bridal wreath shrubs as a child, and that's why I just had to have one in my garden. And I've never trimmed it in 16 years!
-Pam
Yvonne-
Don't you just love the smell of rugosa roses? My white one perfumes the whole yard. I always try to buy plants that have great smells. It's one of the reasons I love flower gardening!
-Pam
OMG, your garden is soooo beautiful! I thoroughly enjoyed the tour!
Pam,
It's all so beautiful!!! Your Iris' are gorgeous! Thanks for the garden tour:).
Blessings,
Kim
Sweetbrier Cottage-
I'm glad you enjoyed it! And thank you!
:-)
-Pam
Kim-
Thank you for the nice words! It's amazing how much more I'm seeing in the flowers when I get really good close-up pics! (i.e., little cobwebs all over everything)
:-)
-Pam
OK I've said this before but will again, this is one of the nicest blogs I have been in and I really love this beautiful garden of yours. Lucky you, we still have cold rain coming down but that's called Oregon sunshine:)
Pop over in the next couple weeks to La Bella Vie to see (cringe?) what we did to our Eastlake full size bed...stay tuned...
Terry
Hi Terry-
How nice of you to post such a nice comment! Thank you! I will be looking for your Eastlake bed post.
Hope your weather gets a bit better soon! :-)
-Pam
Jiminy Cricket Pam, your gardens are looking so very lovely! Thanks for the kick in the pants I've been needing to get back out into mine before it's too late.
Valerie
Valerie-
It's never too late, Valerie! No matter how much I neglect my garden at times, I'm always able to get out there eventually and whip it back into shape!.
-Pam
In this new house, I have a blank slate,mostly, so many choices and designs for garden spaces. I find so many wonderful gardens online,,,
like yours,, for inspiration.
Wonderful Pam!
Marcie
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