Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day - April 2019

Flowering currant

Spring got off to a late start here in the pacific northwest, but now it's progressing as usual - rain, some wind, warm days, cold days, and something new in bloom every time I go outside.

Thanks to Carol at May Dreams Gardens for her monthly roundup of blooms. I'm a day early because I'm travelling for work this week, but determined to not miss this month!

Forget-me-not

Wood sorrel

Wild strawberries

Flowering currant

Bleeding hearts

Anemone coronaria

Daffodils are fading but still nice

Maybe my favorite daffodil

Apples!

Rock cress, mostly grown from seed

Lewisia bloomed all winter, through the snow and cold

I didn't remember all of these tulips! They don't last for years like daffodils, have to keep planting more.

Tulip 'Angelique'

What's next? Lilacs and camas! And peony buds this early?!

In bloom this week: April 30, 2018

Lilacs!

Spring is here, the lilacs are finally blooming! I expect they'll fade quickly though after warm weather last week, then rain, and now more sunshine coming. Ah well, I think there are enough other flowers to console me. 

Lilacs in the rain

Camassia

Camassia

Bleeding hearts filling in nicely along with other native groundcover

Dodecatheon

Limanthes douglasii, Meadow Foam, just starting to bloom

Beargrass!

Apple blossoms

Blueberries

Strawberries

Tulips

Tulips, I'm pretty sure these were all supposed to be the same

Aquilegia, planted from seed 2 years ago

Clematis

Creeping phlox

More aquilegia planted from seed

Forget-me-nots

Coming soon: more camassia, lupine, many bearded irises, and I'm very excited that all three of my peonies have buds.

In bloom this week: June 2, 2017

Peonies

Peonies are blooming! I planted three in the fall of 2015 and they didn't bloom last year, but two are finally blooming now. Roses are taking off now too, and they're a great combination, I'm really enjoying my rose garden right now.

This should be a red peony, but I would call it a dark pink

Rose

The red roses are very hard to get a good picture of

Unknown rose

Bearded iris

Aquilegia

Catmint, geranium and allium seed heads

Unknown succulent from my mom

In a shadier bed below the rose garden, the lemon balm and geraniums are battling for dominance, but foxglove don't care.

Foxglove, geranium and lemon balm

Foxglove, geranium and lemon balm

Across the driveway, just a few blooms in my new dry shade border. This area should fill in a lot by next year.

Geranium macrorrhizum 'White Ness'

Cedar sage, grown from seed

Around back, one of my new rhododendrons is blooming. This whole area will be shady when my new red maple tree grows, but for now I still have sun loving flowers here too.

Rhododendron 'Lee's Dark Purple'

Rhododendron 'Lee's Dark Purple'

Mixed delphiniums

Mixed delphiniums

Mixed delphiniums

Bearded irises are almost done

At the bottom of the yard, lots of blooms on the sunny hillside and meadow too. 

Seaside daisy, Oregon sedum and sea thrift

Salvia 'Hot Lips', smaller than last year but survived the winter

Rock rose

Mixed poppies in the back corner

Poppies

What's next? After we eat some strawberries, I'm very curious to see what this mountain laurel will look like in bloom.

Yum!

Mountain laurel, kalmia latifolia