Friday, April 15, 2011

Garden Bloggers Bloom Day: April 2011

Happy GBBD! Here are some things blooming around my yard. For more garden photos around the world, visit May Dreams Gardens.
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In pots: geraniums, bougainvillea, and dianthus with coleus.

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The showy primroses are still putting on quite a...show, with larkspur joining in for contrast.

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Cut leaf chaste tree is just starting to put out new buds.

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Autumn sage, coreopsis, and indigo spires salvia are ever-dependable.

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I've only got the one California poppy blooming, but it makes me happy to see every day.

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Last of the freesia, butterfly weed, and coral nymph salvia.

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This shrub volunteered in front of my rain barrel, conveniently screening it, so I never got around to pulling it out. No blooms but this year it's produced berries of some sort.

8 comments:

RBell said...

Such intense colors - very nice. Happy GBBD!

katina said...

mulberry maybe?

Amy Farrier said...

Thanks! And a mulberry...it does sort of look like a possibility, though the berries never get dark.

Dorothy Borders said...

Your garden is wonderful - and I'm not saying that just because we have many plants in common! Love the larkspur. That's one I don't have and need to get.

Amy Farrier said...

I thought the same thing about your delphiniums! And thank you.

Annie in Austin said...

Hi Amy - you have a very colorful April-in-Texas garden going on - nice mix of plants, too. What a delicate dianthus variety!

I think Katina is right - we had both red and white mulberries in Illinois.

Annie at the Transplantable Rose

Amy Farrier said...

I didn't know white mulberries existed! A cardinal and a grackle were fighting over them this morning.

Caroline said...

Love the larkspur/primrose combo! Happy GBBD.