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| Painted Daisies |
My goodness, it's Bloom Day, the 15th of every month when we gardeners share what's blooming in our gardens, hosted by Carol Michel's May Dreams Garden blog. I'd almost forgotten about it, and here I'd already posted most of what is blooming in my garden earlier this week!
There are a few flowers I missed, let's see. First, the Painted Daisy above--at least I think that's what it is. I bought it at Lowe's this spring, and seem to have lost the tag. I planted it out in my front garden, but the deer kept eating it back, so I finally dug it up and put it in a pot on the back deck. The flowers only open during the day when it's sunny, but they're gorgeous!
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| Plant stand on the back deck |
Some of the plants on the plant stand look a bit beat-up, a storm blew off some stems and I haven't cleaned up. The pansies are all dead too, but I haven't had time to re-plant the pots. The Thai basil a friend gave me has the largest and prettiest flowers I've ever seen on a basil. Tiny sweat bees love it!
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| Thai basil |
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| Petunia 'Red Maple' on the back deck |
Native Lobelias are a bright spot at this time of the year--the one Cardinal Flower in the front is flowering; the three new plants I set out haven't developed any blooming stems so far. The blue and white Lobelias in the woodland garden continue to proliferate.
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| Lobelia Cardinalis |
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| Blue and white Lobelias |
The Seven Son Flower Tree is displaying its small scented flowers.
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| Seven Son Flower Tree |
The other day I was weeding under the Zelkova tree and moved what I though was a leaf stem caught in the nylon mesh that protects the trunk. A couple of minutes later, the little green stem was back up on the trunk of the tree--a stick insect, it turned out! Such amazing critters, these mimics.
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| Stick insect on a tree trunk |
My artichokes were a bust this year--they didn't grow much, so I replaced them with cardoons--supposedly a hardier version of artichokes. This variety is spineless, and I'm curious to see how they'll do, if they'll bloom next year.
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| Cardoon plant |
The No ID hydrangeas are unfazed by the dry conditions and keep blooming. Only two of the White Cleomes that I grew from seed a friend gave me survived the harsh summer conditions to bloom now.
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| No ID Hydrangea |
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| White Cleome |
That's all folks! Thanks for visiting!
