Garden Bloggers Bloom Day: June 2013

It's time again to share what's blooming in your garden at May Dreams Garden. This month in my yard, the predominant colors are purple, orange and white. Pruned up the crepe myrtle and chopped the past-prime artichoke off at the base Thursday.

Indian mallow (cosmos and standing cypress beneath) Trumpet vine is a beast, a beautiful beast that lends a lushness to the backyard. It also threatens to shade out the other plants. I could easily prune an armload of this vine a week right now. I finally have fireworks gomphrena! Lemongrass and mint in the background. Orange cosmos are popping up everywhere, but I love them next to the bronze fennel. Garden muse Lena lurking behind. Late larkspur coming up at random. Milkweed Curb strip dependables: blackfoot daisy and globe mallow Mexican petunia volunteers (tropicana canna foliage in the middle) Cigar plant Beach vitex White Rose of Sharon in my neighbor's yard provides a starry sky effect every morning and evening. I inherited this bouquet on my sister's way out of town...so nice. Hope everyone has a lovely, bloom-filled weekend!

March Bloom Day

First, the blooms:


The mountain laurels in the front yard are in full swing.

The color on the autumn sage is great, but it needs to be pruned back.

The lantana's also in need of a drastic pruning, but the edges are starting to bloom.

Rosemary's got the same flowers it's had the past few months

Just moved the potted kolanchoe outside last week

Redbud

The remaining broccoli plants all have flowers...end of an era

First strawberry flower of this year

Pear blossom petals among the lettuce

Pear tree overhang from the neighbor's yard

Random tree or shrub in the fence line

And now the buds:

Soon to be evening primrose

Shallot buds

One of the few freesia plants to survive the freezes (the bulbs are 5 years old)

The dreaded sticky leaf buds of the cottonwood, soon to be brought in the house by shoes and kitty paws.

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