Bloomscrolling--what's in bloom where you are?
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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.
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Beautiful rose! Do you know what kind it is?
@Steve-Miller said in Bloomscrolling--what's in bloom where you are?:
Beautiful rose! Do you know what kind it is?
It was from David Austin roses but can't recall the name
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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.
The Bbq Bahn from my office. Vines clockwise from upper right corner:
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"Amethyst falls" wisteria fructens
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Trumpet vine
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Virginia creeper
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Virgin's bower
(Ignore the gardening junk)
(The poles are for thecomputerdude's ham radio antenna)
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Nice. Mind virginia creeper if given a chance in the wrong place is a monster...
There's a University building four floors high and 5 rooms wide, the walls were completely and beautifully covered in the stuff, not a stone nor brick to be seen. A verdant arch over the large double door entrance.
Looked really lovely in central London.However the building is Grade 1 listed and so one Christmas holiday, inevitably, it got the chop.
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It's aggressive for sure but native here and beneficial for birds. We're careful to keep it trained on the pergola. It helps that it is nowhere near the house.
They are all doing well. The trumpet vine also has a reputation for thuggishness.
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Today's bloomscroll is ninebark. Native further north in New England
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Nice. Mind virginia creeper if given a chance in the wrong place is a monster...
There's a University building four floors high and 5 rooms wide, the walls were completely and beautifully covered in the stuff, not a stone nor brick to be seen. A verdant arch over the large double door entrance.
Looked really lovely in central London.However the building is Grade 1 listed and so one Christmas holiday, inevitably, it got the chop.
@AndyD what does Grade 1 listed mean?
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As I understand it, anything done structurally or cosmetically to the building has to be in keeping, sympathetically undertaken and effectively not change it architecturally.
You retain the character or can return it to a more original condition. And ought to maintain it appropriately. Hence the Virginia creeper was doomed.Once listed grade 1 (highest with most restrictions) or 2 there are statute laws to be obeyed.
But there may be even more rules e.g. in one case/area I know about, a committee had to be consulted.
You can't replace victorian patterned wood parquet flooring with practical industrial hospital type lino. It will have to be new same parquet that costs a fortune and takes weeks to lay, as happened in the Library in the same building with the v creeper on the outside wall.Of course H&S and Equality means you can, with permission, install new lifts (elevators) and ramps.
You probably have something similar in the US.
