Bloomscrolling--what's in bloom where you are?
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I am desperately trying to get my flower beds weeded after too much neglect. Lovely things blooming in them that are hiding in the quack grass--tulips, penstemon, blue flax. The iris have risen above the fray, as have the mixed columbine. Daffodils are done. Great lilac bloom this year--the white volunteers bloomed and the scent was everywhere! They are pretty much on their last legs now. Clematis and roses are about to bloom. I have a wonderful old damask rose I brought over from Missoula that has spread nicely. Scented carnations along the walk. Peonies are coming on. Apple and cherry blossoms--including chokecherry. And our Nanking cherries bloomed profusely this year. I still can't do photos, but you all know what these things look like.
More impressive is our bird population: we had a falcon--a kestrel--fly down our chimney and set up house in the glassed in fireplace. I managed to get him snugged into a towel while Mr Pique held a blanket up over the door to the room. We kept him overnight to make sure he wasn't injured, then with the blessing of a raptor rehabber, released him in the morning to the great excitement of his mate, who was waiting for him.
We have a bluebird nesting outside my office window--little blue eggs, and the male stands guard all day.
The other day I heard a red-tailed hawk screaming in our woods. I looked up and he was hanging on to the top of a pine tree while magpies dive bombed him. He must have been diverting them from a nest.
Tanagers, gray jays, Clark's nutcrackers, flickers, grosbeaks, red-winged blackbirds, and many other birds are everywhere. We try to keep this a cat-free zone, though not always successfully.
Our neighborhood is called The Birdseye, and tonight Mr. Pique observed that the name may have come from this area being a birding paradise.
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Your words are worth a thousand pictures
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Neužmirštuõlė aka nezábudky aka Forget-Me-Nots are blooming in my yard. Have never been successful getting a decent photo of them, so I won't even try. Here's one I stole:
Used to have large swaths of them around our Door County house. Just a few patches here and there in my yard in Chicago. They always want to be at the edge where sun meets shade. I just let them do their own thing!
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Today we have the New England native Canada windflower/anemone on the hellstrip
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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
