Bloomscrolling--what's in bloom where you are?
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Today, our first rose bloom--it's a David Austin floribunda and the only non-native rose I haven't killed yet. The natives are doing fine, but of course they aren't so showy and they aren't in bloom yet.
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That's a beautiful modern rose.
About 30 years ago my Dad took down an aging trellis and used the best round poles to make a pergola over the garden path. Mam planted a couple of old fashioned highly scented climbing roses either side.
The pergola was necessarily renewed about ten years ago, but the established roses are trained all over it. Quite difficult to photograph nicely
And from the other side
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@AndyD said in Bloomscrolling--what's in bloom where you are?:
I have to admit that growing older, I prefer plants with fragrance and colour
Which is why my yard is pretty much a failure as a Japanese garden.
That arbor is spectacular!
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Love it!
Today, we finally have the first peony blooms. They reliably bloom on Memorial Day weekend except this year
We have another with white flowers that still hasn't bloomed. And another that rarely flowers (maybe too close to the sidewalk?)
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That's a beautiful modern rose.
About 30 years ago my Dad took down an aging trellis and used the best round poles to make a pergola over the garden path. Mam planted a couple of old fashioned highly scented climbing roses either side.
The pergola was necessarily renewed about ten years ago, but the established roses are trained all over it. Quite difficult to photograph nicely
And from the other side
@AndyD Your Dad's pergola reminds me of my aunt, who is a master gardener in Washington State (or was -- she's in her 90s now) and has a trellis filled with the most gorgeous and fragrant pink roses. I commented on it when I last visited her and she shrugged it off, saying that she can't smell them. She had no use for them since she specialized in growing things to eat.
I think I remember that lack of smell can be correlated with dementia. She was exhibiting some signs during that visit.
I agree it's challenging to capture the experience in a photo.
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Exquisite.
A Suffolk tithe barn, what a privilege to own, restore, furnish and inhabit.
And such a lovely couple.(What Christmas decorations...)
Philip pans past a corner cabinet and a very old looking grandfather clock. Then it's a sensory overload of paintings, ancient beams, acorns capping every newel post.
Everywhere objects of interest.I've never stopped a video so many times wanting to zoom in at antiques.
OMG their paintings.@AndyD said in Bloomscrolling--what's in bloom where you are?:
Exquisite.
A Suffolk tithe barn, what a privilege to own, restore, furnish and inhabit.
And such a lovely couple.(What Christmas decorations...)
Philip pans past a corner cabinet and a very old looking grandfather clock. Then it's a sensory overload of paintings, ancient beams, acorns capping every newel post.
Everywhere objects of interest.I've never stopped a video so many times wanting to zoom in at antiques.
OMG their paintings.Yes, exquisite!
Our historic preservation laws are not nearly as strong as yours.
My alma mater's campus is made up of waterfront estates from the Gilded Age.
A contiguous district including the campus, other mansions, and a museum are designated as a historic district under applicable laws.
The laws are ambiguous, lacking in strength, and weighted clearly on the side of private property rights (even though none of it is private property except a single property at the northern end).
The destruction and construction I have witnessed are heartbreaking.
The destruction is irrevocable. The amount and scale of the development are completely out of place as well.
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Today, an early common milkweed bloom. Food for Monarch butterflies.
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Today's bloomscroll is ninebark. Native further north in New England
Same plant, a week later
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I planted some a few years ago that disappeared. I found a volunteer on the hellstrip this season and found these really healthy specimens at a native plant sale. Figure I'll put them on the hellstrip if that's where they want to live. Do yours volunteer in a sunny spot?
@rustyfingers said in Bloomscrolling--what's in bloom where you are?:
Do yours volunteer in a sunny spot?
Yes, typically in the field among tall grasses.
The industrial revolution cheapened everything.
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Same plant, a week later
@rustyfingers I love milkweed, the scent is lovely.
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@rustyfingers I love milkweed, the scent is lovely.
The flowers look a little like milkweed, don't they?
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@rustyfingers said in Bloomscrolling--what's in bloom where you are?:
Do yours volunteer in a sunny spot?
Yes, typically in the field among tall grasses.
@Bernard ooooh, I found the blue-eyed grass I planted years ago, and it's doing great. I think I need to move it to a sunnier spot. I didn't realize they only open up in the sun
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We just came back from a quick trip to Missoula, where I saw blooming while hiking: wild roses, mock orange, lupine, and blue camas. Also a few things I'm not sure of the name. It is actually a bit early for these things to bloom, and we already have wildfires and smoke here. I think it is going to be a very long, hot summer.
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Mock orange? Pittosporum? Very popular as a landscape plant
in CA. I didn’t know it could survive cold.Maybe there are different kinds.
[edit]. Yes there are. Pittosporum is the one I know. The one you have in the wild is probably Philadelphus. They’re both called mock orange.
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