Now that the flowering trees had their turn this season, it's now turned to the flower beds. Above is my first ever Foxgloves in bloom, with three spears already. It's been crazy. Just my last post from the garden, many of these flowers were but just buds an inch long-if. Now, almost three weeks, they have all exploded. I have never seen the garden grow and bloom just this quick, and all the rain we have gotten has certainly helped. All told, it still amazes me how successful I am with plants. Unless it is an inherent thing I picked up from my father and grandmother. None the less, with all the crap going on in the world, it provides a nice relaxing time and distraction from it all, and feel so good to see your TLC and work doing well. Aint nature grand? I so enjoy seeing the cycle and everything coming up again from last year, with exception to that new foxglove. Even my Datuna Ballerina have blooms already, and I just planted the cassia =, four this year. We shall see how they do, and if they will smell of popcorn again. They are one of my favorites the last two years. Here's how the garden grew since the last post, and with Jon off to Spain, we may not get the proper names of things.
This is already filled now with little pink flowers.
A selection of lavender, and salvias
A selection of some of the roses bushes filled to the brim with buds.
The bleeding heart is huge this year.It seemed to grow from a wee stem to big bush overnight. And one of my favorites the columbine went insane this year. I have never seen so many blooms on it! They are now all open since I took these on Sunday.
Pink balls! If I recall, it's called Sea Thrift. A little grass like tuft that is a slow grower, but definitely a shower when completely grown.
The peonies really filled in this year! Another week and this will be all blooms!
Blue Texas Star
Meanwhile outside my boudoir windows...this lilac. Can I mention how heavenly the room smells when I wake up and go to bed?
A selection of osteospermun
This too is a new addition, and we need Jon's talent for this one's name.
I loved the dainty blooms.
And this was about a week ago. Everything is so green and this was the end of the dogwood blooming. Most of the tan bark in about another week won't even be visible by all the flowering growth. And so much to look forward to yet. I also added this year another boyd bath. The birds love water and attract many visitors. The wildflower garden too is doing well, though it looks like weeds right now. I also added in another 6 packets of seeds including poppies. We shall see how they do. The irises are now filled with buds. A few more plantings yet of other jewels, I have to realign the stone walkway into the potting shed, and get and plant the annuals yet, and also put in more herbs. Only my rosemary, mint, and parsley came back. And the blueberry bush is looking very promising so there is that.
How's your spring been so far?
My spring, as has yours, has been very wet. Nice pics.
ReplyDeleteThanks Dave. I can't wait to see your yellow peony. At least I think you're the one that had the yellow peony?
DeleteStunning photos, especially of the bleeding hearts and the columbines!
ReplyDeleteOh, le jardin est magnifique. Des couleurs incroyables.
ReplyDeleteThose are some beautiful flowers! At Le Crash Pad, all I get are weeds.
ReplyDeleteIt's all so beautiful. OH, I remember the smell of the lilacs from when I was a wee thing. The closest we have here is a desert sage that forms similar flowers.
ReplyDeleteI planted two varieties of Elderberry (Johns and Adams). They seem to be doing well so far. We shall see if I can actually keep them alive and growing.
One of the earthly delights.... waking up to the scent of lilacs. I have to look up Elderberry. I love a jam here I get at the market called Elderberry. Oh yes I have seen that. I imagine desert sage is pretty? I love anything purple....and love the sage and salvia families.
DeleteMistress, with Jon away, Google Lens lists your flower at the bottom as Potentilla Nepalensis and I also enjoy Columbines, six in my small garden. You certainly get good results, your thumb must be very green! Thank you for pictures that calming during the chaos.
ReplyDeleteWell, a lot of friends used to call me poison ivy, so maybe there's something to that .. me and plants, and my love of nature.
DeleteThe outside of your house is as gorgeous as the inside.
ReplyDeleteYour too kind Ricko!
DeleteYour new addition is a Geum (as Milleson says a member of the Potentilla family), I don't know the variety. I love your selection of Aquilegia (aka Granny's bonnets) - my double Aquilegia are in full flower.
ReplyDeletePS we could do with some rain over this side of the pond.
Thanks to you both! I have been very pleased with it so far, and it will return every year. And thank you for the compliment on the Aquilegia. Coming from you and your garden, that is high praise.
DeleteYour garden is absolutely beautiful! Please share pictures of your roses when they bloom, because roses are my new obsession!
ReplyDeleteI will Jennifer. I included that picture with you in mind. I can't believe all the buds on them. And right after winter as Spring was coming they all did not look that good. I feared I didn't prune them back for enough. But they seem to have rebounded.
DeleteYou definitely have a green thumb, Maddie, and it's clearly paying off with all your hard work: so many beautiful blooms, colours, scents and creatures to enjoy! It must be so relaxing to just sit in your garden with a gin cocktail -- maximum decompression from stress -- and I'm pea green with envy!
ReplyDeleteAs for my spring, it's going better than expected -- all our snow has finally melted, light spring rains have jumpstarted new green grass and the jackrabbits are chowing down on the new grass shoots like crazy. Mark Carney being elected has helped lower my anxiety level too, LOL!
I have a feeling my anxiety level won't come down until 4 years from now. The gardening men and gin helps.
DeleteBeautiful!
ReplyDeleteOh, you have such a green thumb! Everything looks fantastic, and you're right: at the 100 day mark of this administration, having a garden like this is a fab escape. I love lavender! I wish I had a whole garden full of that plant!
Love the birdbath also! And the annuals!
XOXO
When the lilac is done blooming, I have a bed linen spray I get from a farm near my old place. Lavender sage...you'd love it Six. Spray a pump or two before getting into bed and sleep like a baby.
DeleteI envy your green thumb. I'm just good at growing weeds (and only when that word is plural.)
ReplyDeleteYeah, we could hang!
DeleteWhat a beautiful garden!!! I'm inspired! That columbine is glorious!
ReplyDeleteWhere to start? There is nothing nicer than seeing a garden where you can also see the love and tlc it gets. I just love spring flowers best I think. You must all have a great gardening gene running in your family, like you said.
ReplyDeleteGlorious! I love the foxglove. I enjoyed seeing all of the beautiful flowers. You have some unusual ones. I have Sea Thrift in a pot on the balcony and really enjoy it. Now you have me wanting a whole garden.
ReplyDeleteSo lush and vibrant it looks there. No wonder the birds love it. That Texas Blue Star caught my eye as did the osteospermun and beautiful columbine. WOW. I can't wait to see how your Popcorn cassia get. They always look so pretty in the summer.
ReplyDeleteTill the cassia get going, they struggle. But once they take, hopefully, they grow fast!
DeleteI love the plants and selections in your garden. You must come from some good gardeners. I keep promising myself to plant armeria (sea thrift) I love this plant. The pots on the porch are wonderful. I can't wait to see your potted garden and of course your datura Ballerina!!!! You got me started on them. But the star of the post has to be that columbine. Talk about wow factor. There are so serious blooms of them! I also like all the purples. Nice color everywhere.
ReplyDeleteGORGEOUS, gorgeous. I'm so jealous. Everything at my house is burning up to a crisp. And, we're not even supposed to water already. WE NEED RAIN.
ReplyDeleteI loved every one of these flowers! I alas, have no luck with columbine. I am fortunate to grow Maltese Cross and several clematis, but you have introduced me to several new plants that I'd now like to try, so thank you! Have a teriffic week!
ReplyDeleteI hope you find some luck Dame!
DeleteI knew when you took over the ancestral home, the gardening bug would bite you.
ReplyDeleteI I always look forward to your garden post, because I don't have one.! Thanks for sharing your beautiful flower garden pictures. It's fun to anticipate each spring what Mother Nature has decided for your gardens I imagine.
ReplyDeleteWith May’s Patios of Córdoba, spring has been spectacular. I would never want to leave your gardens this time of year. Incredible. And, OMG, those columbines!
ReplyDeleteI would to see that one day. Your pictures have been wonderful to see.
DeleteYou have inspired me each year to try something out of my normal. Your garden and variety always look lovely!
ReplyDeleteHow has my spring been? An adventure, with planes, trains, and ships. Your garden is overflowing with plants in mating season.
ReplyDeleteAnd the pollination season. The bees have already been busy, and many of the blooms, like the salvias, roses, some of the lavenders and all the wildflowers haven't even bloomed yet
DeleteSpring has been decent but I don't plant. Don't have the patience
ReplyDeleteAll those years I lived in my apartment Adam I was much the same. I had one flower pot on my porch and that was it. But now I love it
DeleteSo beautiful and tranquil!!!
ReplyDeleteLove, love, LOVE that foxglove! I'm hoping for several varieties to flower here this year, but I don't think I have one like yours.
ReplyDeleteYour blooms are so much further on than mine. Despite months of warm weather, we haven't had any rain since mid-Feb (well, one brief downpour in early April, I recall, and it must have rained the other night as the ground was wet in the morning), so everything is a bit behind. Still, I'm quite happy to peruse your petals and stamens!
Then you should come behind the potting shed because I have one stem for you that I have not revealed here!
DeleteAnd I swear I don't know what's going on with the garden. We've had a lot of dark damp rainy days early spring, but then it seems like since Easter stuff's been growing like wildfire. I don't recall things in the garden coming up and blooming so soon, when it seems like a week week and a half prior they were just little buds coming out of the ground. I have a feeling it's going to be a good gardening summer. Cross your fingers for my foxglove. This is the first one I've ever attempted. And that you enjoyed the pictures I will take that as high compliment
I may be a bit late to the party, but that's an impressive Spring show you have going on there, my dear - you should be proud! Our garden's getting there (especially now we have returned from our holiday and got the chance to give the poor things a bloody good drench of water)... Jx
ReplyDeletePS I agree with Helen, with its "fluffy" core of pistils, that's definitely a type of Geum. Very pretty.
PPS I'm intrigued by the "Texas Blue Star" (Amsonia ciliata), especially when I read that it's actually a woodland plant. With the ever-encroaching canopies of our neighbours' bastard weed trees taking all our sunlight, we may have to try it!
Welcome back my dear!!!!! I trust you had a great time as only you can?!?
DeleteGreat compliments coming from you! The garden as never grown this fast! I have been amazed. You should try the Amsonia ciliata. Mine get part shade, part sun and does wonderfully, and blooms till almost July. I did see it was a woodland variety that shocked me too. Some of us talked about your back passage while you were gone. I trust otherwise your garden was in nice shape upon return?
The garden was thirsty, but despite all that, loads of plants are now in bloom - including roses, foxgloves, thalictrum, geraniums and clematis - that weren't even opening when we left... Jx
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