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

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.

rustyfingers

Today, rattle bush, aka blue wild indigo, aka Baptisia Australia. Native in Eastern US but not New England.

wtg

@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....

https://theconversation.com/billions-of-cicadas-are-emerging-from-cape-cod-to-north-georgia-heres-how-and-why-we-map-them-255461?utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c06e5d78644b3aab4472

AndyD

Greenfly and roses

Steve Miller

Beautiful rose! Do you know what kind it is?

Mik

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

Three years ago me & a daughter built a pergola in my parents' garden. And now

You got wisteria to bloom in three years? Amazing.

rustyfingers

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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Steve Miller

Wisteria terrifies me.

I’m afraid it will grow through my window and strangle me in my bed.

AndyD

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 outto 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.

AndyD

@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

https://www.davidaustinroses.com/

rustyfingers

The Bbq Bahn from my office. Vines clockwise from upper right corner:

"Amethyst falls" wisteria fructens
Trumpet vine
Virginia creeper
Virgin's bower

(Ignore the gardening junk)

(The poles are for thecomputerdude's ham radio antenna)
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AndyD

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.

rustyfingers

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.

WTF-Beta

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