Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day - February 2019
On this day, Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day, February 2019,
we've turned a corner from cold dark winter to early spring!
We have Carol at
May Dreams Gardens to thank.
Thanks, Carol!
It's not just rosemary anymore.
It's rosemary...
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| prostrate rosemary |
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| Blue Boy rosemary |
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| Blue Boy blossom |
and crocus...
vinca minor (periwinkle) and creeping wallflower.
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| vinca or periwinkle |
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| creeping wallflower |
Plus, purchased-yesterday primrose...
and one of my favorites, wild violets, here hiding under the tatty winter Hidcote lavender.
Nature's proof spring's on the way!
Lovely Blooms,what a lovely color of primrose.
ReplyDeleteHAVE A GREAT WEEK AHEAD.
That's my favorite primrose color! I like those and the yellow. My house is yellow and my front door is bright blue. I tend to overdo the blue and yellow flowers!
DeleteRosemary flowers have a wonderful color, but I am partial to blue flowers. That's a very cheerful yellow crocus!
ReplyDeleteMe too! I love the blue and purples most. I end up planning too many the same colors.
DeleteI do love your early spring blooms, especially that rosemary. (Note to self: Must replace rosemary that died last summer.)
ReplyDeleteThe prostrate rosemary blooms nearly all year! There was a hummingbird at it a few days ago.
DeleteI had Rosemary for several years, then it just died. Yours is so pretty, I must get another plant started. I am hoping to see the wild violets here pretty soon.
ReplyDeleteHappy Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day!
I love the wild violets, even though people pull them out as weeds. If I had a nice lawn (I have grassy areas, but no way are they "nice lawns!") I wouldn't mind wild violets growing in it. What's wrong with people?!
DeleteLove all your rosemary, I must take cuttings of mine, it is getting too tall and woody.I must check and see if my violets are flowering yet, I haven't noticed them.
ReplyDeleteThe prostrate one is about seven years old, woody underneath I guess, but it droops so you can't tell. It also droops and roots its own stems in the soil. I have found a couple to cut off come spring. It does root in water quickly too. The Tuscan Blue not so much, and it didn't bloom but a couple of blossoms.
DeleteWow - the rosemary is so pretty!
ReplyDeleteIt is, isn't it? The prostrate one is what I use for recipes.
DeleteWhat a beautiful rosemary in bloom! I've had rosemaries bloom but nothing like that.
ReplyDeleteI don't do anything special to it. It's a prostrate kind, maybe they bloom more? It is blooming a lot more than my Tuscan Blue.
DeleteI'm glad to learn that your garden is waking up, especially given the miserable winter the PNW seems to be experiencing this year. I love that creeping wallflower and will have to look into how it feels about hardiness zone 10b/11a.
ReplyDeleteThe winter hasn't been bad in Southern Oregon until now! The one day snow was fine (fun and then gone), but it is raining and raining and raining, which is an Oregon thing, but not a Southern Oregon thing.
DeleteI have raised beds because of clay soil, so at least things currently growing are not submerged.
That wallflower has actually creeped out of its bed! There's a big round bare spot in the herb garden where it began. It roots really easily from pieces yanked up, since it roots along as it creeps. In a few weeks the entire patch of it will be orange. I like it much more than regular wallflower.