Bloomscrolling--what's in bloom where you are?

[Daniel.]

@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.

[rustyfingers]

Today, an early common milkweed bloom. Food for Monarch butterflies.

[rustyfingers]

Same plant, a week later

[Bernard]

@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]

@rustyfingers I love milkweed, the scent is lovely.

[rustyfingers]

The flowers look a little like milkweed, don't they?

[rustyfingers]

@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

[AndyD]

This is outside our front door, just coming into bloom, strongly sage scented as you pass.

[AndyD]

California lilac, mostly in our garden

[pique]

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.

[Steve Miller]

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.

[Steve Miller]

@AndyD

It’s pretty!

Do you know what it’s called?

[AndyD]

I call it Walt cos it Disney have scent.
Seriously it's called Californian Lilac.

Hang on..

[AndyD]

It's a ceanothus

[pique]

@Steve-Miller said in Bloomscrolling--what's in bloom where you are?:

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.

yes, ours is philadelphus lewisii, IIRR.

[AndyD]

Couple from our garden

Peonies, London pride

And an unknown pale pink flower; with my occasional indulgence of booze, book, and binoculars in the sunny back garden as I write

[wtg]

Great flower show!!

@AndyD - that pale pink one in the last photo is a columbine (Aquilegia).

[rustyfingers]

Clematis putting on a show

[Steve Miller]

I really like the color of that Clematis!

[Bernard]

I love Clematis. I put one in, bright purple, when I first moved here. It is not doing so good this year and maybe it's time to replace it.

This crossed my path this evening and I really loved it. Thought maybe some here would appreciate it and perhaps get inspiration from it...

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