Friday, May 15, 2009

My First May Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day


When I started blogging in October, I noticed posts about GBBD, and my research showed me that Carol, of May Dreams Gardens started it, and continues to host it each month.  Now that I have lots of blooms, I tried to limit this post to flowers that I haven't shown on my blog yet, but there are some that slipped in.

Amsonia hubrichtii:



Amsonia tabernaemontana:



White bleeding heart:



Cat mint, Walker's Low?:



Onion, or giant chives:



Regular chives, with pinker flowers, and smaller stems than the giant chives:



Columbines, 3 passalongs:





Several of the heucheras are blooming:



I have several of these dianthus of some kind, maybe sweet williams that lived over the winter in my new bed that was started last June:



False baptisia:



Iris rescued from a place where the house was removed for a duplex or apartment to be built:



This one from a neighbor friend:



Orange hawkweed, another passalong that I keep in its boundaries:



This year's tub of pansies that is doing better than the others that haven't bushed out yet, and that I put in the header to replace last year's tub:



This peony, showing color, was here when we moved in, planted by my mother-in-law when she lived here:



I call these perennial bachelor buttons.  They look like what I've seen called mountain bluets:



I like this pink dame's rocket my sister gave me last year:



Red Valerian:



Another passalong, a repeat blooming day lily, my first to bloom, too:



The yellow flowered plant is an herb I plan to find the name of and put here later.  The alliums are doing well:



I have the tag for this somewhere in the house, and will try to get it on the post, too:


16 comments:

  1. Hi Susan~~ Wow. I find it very interesting how plants' inner clocks work in accordance with their location. My Amsonia and Centranthus are both still tightly budded.

    Beautiful rescued iris. What color.

    I like your new banner pansies. I thought they looked slightly different. I bet their scent is delicious.

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  2. You've got tons of the prettiest blooms, Susan. Happy GBBD to you!

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  3. Nice first bloom day!!!! GREAT series of pics you've got there! LOL - that is precisely why I stopped participating in GBBD. Since I kill flowers and only have veggies clinging to life many months go by without any blooms for me. LOL - such is life. Yours are really nice though!

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  4. Hi Sue, Great GBBD Post! and that is a walker mint I have one too. Beautiful blooms!

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  5. Sue, you have to enter your name at the bottom of carol's blog so that other people can see who is participating in the GBBD.

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  6. You have so much going on in your garden. It's lovely!

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  7. dear sue, when ever i come here on your blog i feel iam walking in the garden.....these blooms you have here are beautiful...i found quite a few common ones that my mother has planted.....as i said am only an admirer with a cam...lol!!!
    PS...few months back you had asked me to posts some pictures on my school. do check out my blog...i have put up a few and will be putting up more in in the following week. we have our centenary celebrations next week. so do have a look at them.

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  8. dear sue, when ever i come here on your blog i feel iam walking in the garden.....these blooms you have here are beautiful...i found quite a few common ones that my mother has planted.....as i said am only an admirer with a cam...lol!!!
    PS...few months back you had asked me to posts some pictures on my school. do check out my blog...i have put up a few and will be putting up more in in the following week. we have our centenary celebrations next week. so do have a look at them.

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  9. Welcome to GBBD, Sue; you certainly have lots of lovely blooms to share! My first columbines ever are blooming this year, too; they are the sweetest flowers, aren't they? Like you, I often have to go through a whole stack of plant tags to find out the name of a plant:)

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  10. Happy GBBD!
    Such pretty flowers, and I love your header with all the colorful pansies!
    I like the white bleeding heart - it's now on my wish list of plants.
    Have a great weekend!

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  11. Dear Sue~~The blooms you have are wonderful! Our baptisias past blooming and the amsonias are yet to bloom or in bloom...amazing little micro climates in each garden! Have a sweet weekend and Happy Blooming! gail

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  12. Sue, it's full of flowers there! I think the first time I really paid attention to what amsonia was when I saw it on your blog. It's got such pretty blue flowers.

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  13. Whoa, Sue! It's so difficult to pick one :D (I know I'm the one who's challenging others to do so, but now I realize how difficult it is). My favorite is the Iris that you rescued. Her dark color is very unique and she looks like a princess in a Ball in her most exquisite gown!

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  14. Susan you have plenty of lovely flowers to share for GBBD day. Perhaps next month I will have enough blooms to show for this day. It will also be a first for me.

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  15. You have some beautiful blooms in your garden right now Sue. I envy your False Blue Indigo. This spring I purchased a white one, now I wish I had got the blue one too. ;)

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