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

[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...

Link to video

[rustyfingers]

We have two clemati on either side of our front walk. The purple one is struggling a bit but looks better than it ever has. The other one was spectacular this year for the first time. We had a lot of rain--and we had to cut down a tree so they are getting more light this year.