Bloomscrolling--what's in bloom where you are?
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@rustyfingers, I was perplexed when I first got here about how to upload images directly to this forum. It's not immediately obvious.
When you click on 'reply' to someone's post, you may get a mini version of the input editor. At the bottom of the input box is the "Quick reply" button. Immediately to the left of it is a diagonal double arrow icon. If you click that you'll get the full editor. On the full editor toolbar, the next-to-last icon on the right is the upload image tool.
If you're already in the full editor, just click the upload image icon (second to last on the right).
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Right--thanks. I found that but wanted to save the forum money by uploaded the pix to another service
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Right--thanks. I found that but wanted to save the forum money by uploaded the pix to another service
@rustyfingers Yea, you want the Image Link box in the full edit screen, fifth icon from the right. If you hover over the icons a text description of the icon will appear. But you've probably already figured that out....
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Went away for a few days and came back to find many things blooming!
https://share.icloud.com/photos/098-DFnjHKXLXKHiLITUOYQMw
https://share.icloud.com/photos/014UoklmQw9jUOpf3Tpbjw2tw
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Peonies. Roses.
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The first rose of the season.
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I spend too much time doomscrolling. So let's spend some time bloomscrolling!
I missed spring in my garden last year because I spent 6 weeks in the Pacific Northwet --(c) pianojuggler-- closing up my stepmothers' estate.
So I'm super enthusiastic when something blooms this year.
Today's spotlight--rhododendron. Thus came with the house and it was just a stem 8 years ago. It has filled out.
Before: buds last week
After: blooms today
What's blooming near you?
Got it to work
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The first rose of the season.
@Steve-Miller another beautiful yellow rose!
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Your yard looks great, @Steve-Miller !
What's the groundcover with the purple flowers?
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Your yard looks great, @Steve-Miller !
What's the groundcover with the purple flowers?
Mazas reptans “creeping blue”.
It didn’t do much last year - just kind of sat there. Died to the ground over winter but this Spring it really took off!
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Haven't seen it before, at least not that I can recall. The Spruce says it can be a replacement for turf grass, which may solve a problem for me in my side yard.
One thing I noticed:
Creeping mazus spreads naturally as its roaming stems root themselves in soil.
Creeping mazus spreads so quickly that it's generally planted via nursery seedling flats, with plants spaced 8 to 12 inches apart and then allowed to fill in to create a carpet of greenery.
https://www.thespruce.com/creeping-mazus-plant-profile-5070515
Sometimes vigor becomes invasiveness. You'll have to let us know if it stays within bounds, or if you are fighting it.
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Today, rattle bush, aka blue wild indigo, aka Baptisia Australia. Native in Eastern US but not New England.
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Cicadas. Cicadas are in bloom here. Everywhere.
I rescued one from a fountain yesterday. They only get a week or so of life. It seemed cruel to let it drown.
I'm getting soft.
@Mik said in Bloomscrolling--what's in bloom where you are?:
Cicadas. Cicadas are in bloom here. Everywhere.
I rescued one from a fountain yesterday. They only get a week or so of life. It seemed cruel to let it drown.
I'm getting soft.
Tracking the cicadas....
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Beautiful rose! Do you know what kind it is?
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Speaking of Wisteria, here's our "Amethyst Falls" Nativar (but not in New England). thecomputerdude built this pergola from a kit (which he calls "The Barbeque Bahn") and we planted a different vine on each of the 4 corners a few years back. This wisteria was one of the 4.
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Wisteria terrifies me.
I’m afraid it will grow through my window and strangle me in my bed.
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We planted a wisteria on the front wall of our previous house with ideas of jigsaw country cottage bliss.
Vigorous grower.
I ended up a ladder twice a year for 15 years pruning it back; it strangled a drainpipe right up to the roof gutter, grew under the porch roof slates.
Partly cut by leaning out of bedroom windows.
But for fortnight every year the house looked fab, and a mini lilac bush planted middle of the front lawn had the scent equivalent.New owners ripped both out
to modernise.The pergola at my parents was designed to take an established wisteria sprawling on shrubs. Again up a ladder tieing and training it, but this year it was very pleasing. Another two years and it will cover the whole structure.
