Showing posts with label Garden Bloggers Bloom Day - April. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Garden Bloggers Bloom Day - April. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Garden Bloggers Bloom Day - April 2008

I want to welcome all you Garden Bloggers that are hopping around to the various blogs to look at what is happening in other gardens this month. If you don't see what you think should here you can go to Carol's May Dreams Garden to see many other blogs that are participating in the April Bloom Day.

The first on our list of blooms is a group of what was supposed to be white tulips that have turned out to be a creamy yellow. They are gorgeous so I won't complain I was just surprised when they weren't a solid white. The Almond bush is blooming quite nicely. The poor thing about died last summer so I was thrilled to have some blooms pop open just in time for GBBD.
The Serviceberry Tree is blooming like crazy. It just opened its blooms today. They have been budded and about to burst for some time. The were just waiting for some lovely warm sunshine to coax them open.
The Pulmonaria is open now too. It has had a struggle with life. Last summer it was a mere shoot that was all that was left from a nice plant that had planted in the spring. I pulled it up from where it was planted. I put it far away from the patio so I couldn't watch it die and it decided that it liked where I put it. You just never know about some plants.
This Lamiastrum Galeobdolon or False Lamium 'Herman's Pride' is such a lovely yellow bloom. If my cameral had been cooperating I would have gotten a macro look at the blooms. They are so pretty and they last quite awhile in the spring. I like to cut them to use in bouquets. I had been warned that this could be quite invasive but I haven't found that to be a problem here. It does grow well but if it gets going in a direction that I don't want it to go in I just pull it up. Much of this has been damaged by the upheaveal with the pine trees. I was quite happy to find these little blooms.
This Epimedium 'Sulpphureum' is another delicate looking plant yet tough that has great blooms. The blooms almost come before the foilage.
Other flowers in my garden blooming are species tulips, creeping phlox, snow on the mountain, Grape Hyacinths, Chocolate Vine, Kerria Bush and the Redbud trees are beginning to bloom.
And of course we can't forget the wild violets.
I hope your garden is beginning to awaken and all of your garden
dreams are coming true.





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