Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day - April 2025
Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for April 2025
Spring has arrived in my Southern Oregon zone 8b garden! Lots more to come, but it's nice to see what's here, and makes me less down on the entire subject of gardening! Once the overgrown grass gets cut it will look more like a garden.
Three kinds of rosemary. Top right is prostrate, below that is Blue Boy, a dwarf. The one on the left is Tuscan Blue.
White and Blue Borage
The beginning of the sea thrift flowers.
Fire Storm geum
The last of the flowering quince that still looks good.
Top left to right: Breeder's Mix hardy geranium and the first Red Knight knautia
Bottom left to right: volunteer viola and Sunset Buff calendula (closed for the night)
Purity candytuft
The first of the bearded iris, some long ago Craigslist freebies.
See the lone California poppy in the background above? That's a traitor poppy. My poppies sprung their seeds over the fence, where one grew in the neighbor's gravel driveway, with no care whatsoever. My poppies aren't nearly ready to bloom yet!
There is one patch of iris that has cutworms. I haven't been out at dusk to look for them yet. Or in the dark with a flashlight. "Oh, ignore me creeping around your window in the dark, I'm just hunting for cutworms!) These plants had them last year too. The cutworms chew into a bud (left) and the flower is left like this (right) when it opens.
You're a little warmer and ahead of me in the mid-Atlantic. But we are full of blooms here, too.
ReplyDeleteLots of nice blooms. Sorry about the cutworms. We actually have some poppies around here. I was surprised to see them pop up.
ReplyDeleteYou are ahead of us, and I enjoy seeing the coming attractions. Your iris-what a shame! I never knew there was such a thing as white borage. And, rosemary is not hardy here. We have to grow it as an annual and it's too much to bring it inside anymore, as we used to do when we were younger. They do have lovely blooms.
ReplyDeleteI love all these blooms--thanks for sharing! I've always loved Rosemary. I planted Borage several years ago, and it occasionally makes a reappearance (seeds that lie dormant and then sprout?). It's a fun and tasty bloom. Beautiful Irises and all your other plants, too. :)
ReplyDeleteI fixated on your borage, Lisa. Earlier today, I noted that my garden lacked any borage this year and I miss it - it usually pops up on its own but that hasn't happened this year, possibly due to our exceptionally low rainfall. I winced at what the cutworms did to your beautiful Iris and I hope you manage to eradicate them.
ReplyDeleteSuch lovely blooms! I'm jealous of your rosemary. Mine has not survived winter for the past two years.
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