Garden Blogger's Bloom Day
Tap, tap...anyone there? I've been away for a while... so long that one reader even emailed me to make sure I was okay.
I'm okay. It's just been a hard winter.
I've missed several months of Garden Blogger's Bloom Days, some because I wasn't home (was with my mom last fall) and then...the weather turned and BIT me, big time.
Well, to be fair, it bit almost all of us, all around the country. It just felt lousy for all of us.
I lost a lot of plants, but not as many as I had feared. Some of the ones I thought were dead, are coming back. They are not what they were, and it may be several years before they recover fully.
So, here we are. It's Spring and things are starting to green up and grow. I can not tell you how happy I am to see things alive, after looking so very very dead.
To celebrate, let me invite you to share Garden Blogger's Bloom day, sponsored by Carole at May Dreams Garden. She has gardens from all over the country and some out of the US sharing what's blooming in our gardens on the 15th of every month.
Starting with the star performer this year, the Carolina Jessamine.... this plant came through the freezes like a champ. It is in a fairly sheltered area, between a structure and the house, near a window, so it was probably in the warmest place in the back yard.
The star of the front yard is the (?) Lipstick Salvia. It's blooming on some of last year's growth. This is one of the beds that I was able to cover, a little. It was further protected by the lemon grass....which got pretty badly knocked down, but seems to be alive under a mop of brown leaves (cut way back right now).
I'm happy to report that I have not one, but three of my roses in bloom.
The climbing yellow rose, Golden Showers, is going great guns. This is a very hardy rose and seems to have suffered the least, tho it was one of the more exposed roses.
As radiant as always, Belinda's Dream is beginning her first bloom of the year. She's an amazing plant, and the luckiest $5 find I've ever made.
The first rose I noticed in bloom was the little lavender colored one. I THINK I saw another rose, that may be the same kind. And, I've forgotten the name....again. It was something like "Pretty......something". I'll find it again.
My big project this past weekend was to clean up and plant the herb bed. Most of the herbs made it through.. it was also a bed I covered. I had 3 thymes that survived in smaller pots, and I replanted them into the ground. I have two new thymes as well, which give me an English thyme, French thyme, lemon thyme, a golden lemon thyme and one that isn't identified.
The pineapple sage and peach sage (non culinary) made it through, putting out new growth the last couple of weeks. In addition, I had a green sage that not only made it through in a small pot, but put down roots. I got a tricolor and a golden sage and planted them, as well. Only one of the echinacea survived the winter, so I replaced the two that died with the two new sages. The Texas tarragon is alive, I think. The roots are firm in the soil and there seems to be green in the lower stems. I hope it will recover, too.
The rosemary (upright), grew all winter. I am cutting in back at least 1/3, maybe a little more. Luckily, I have some co workers who are interested in the cuttings and using them to cook with, and a couple of the neighbors are using some as well. The marjoram is being trimmed back and it's joining the rosemary in some fragrant spring bouquets. At least one of the tutors told me her husband is now interested in meeting me, after the first rosemary chicken she made him.
Why he wants to meet me? I don't know. SHE cooked the chicken. I just cut the herb. Men.
I also seeded borage, fennel and a couple kinds of basil.
Still to plant: some tomatoes, bell peppers and peas along with some nice ivy geraniums.
Back to Bloom Day.
The dianthus was under cover and is beginning to bloom again. It's still way behind normal.
I've some blanket flowers two places in the yard, two plants in the rose bed, one of which is not doing very well, and two in the new triangular part of the herb bed. They should open any day now. I'm looking forward to it.
Two of the citrus trees, a blood orange and a mandarin satsuma are covered in buds. I may get some decent fruit setting this year. So far, I've gotten two blood oranges and three oranges from another tree. I have more hopes for next year.
And the peach tree has a bloom, and buds..and will have its very own post! Isn't it a gorgeous little bloom?
I'm okay. It's just been a hard winter.
I've missed several months of Garden Blogger's Bloom Days, some because I wasn't home (was with my mom last fall) and then...the weather turned and BIT me, big time.
Well, to be fair, it bit almost all of us, all around the country. It just felt lousy for all of us.
I lost a lot of plants, but not as many as I had feared. Some of the ones I thought were dead, are coming back. They are not what they were, and it may be several years before they recover fully.
So, here we are. It's Spring and things are starting to green up and grow. I can not tell you how happy I am to see things alive, after looking so very very dead.
To celebrate, let me invite you to share Garden Blogger's Bloom day, sponsored by Carole at May Dreams Garden. She has gardens from all over the country and some out of the US sharing what's blooming in our gardens on the 15th of every month.
Starting with the star performer this year, the Carolina Jessamine.... this plant came through the freezes like a champ. It is in a fairly sheltered area, between a structure and the house, near a window, so it was probably in the warmest place in the back yard.
The star of the front yard is the (?) Lipstick Salvia. It's blooming on some of last year's growth. This is one of the beds that I was able to cover, a little. It was further protected by the lemon grass....which got pretty badly knocked down, but seems to be alive under a mop of brown leaves (cut way back right now).
I'm happy to report that I have not one, but three of my roses in bloom.
The climbing yellow rose, Golden Showers, is going great guns. This is a very hardy rose and seems to have suffered the least, tho it was one of the more exposed roses.
As radiant as always, Belinda's Dream is beginning her first bloom of the year. She's an amazing plant, and the luckiest $5 find I've ever made.
The first rose I noticed in bloom was the little lavender colored one. I THINK I saw another rose, that may be the same kind. And, I've forgotten the name....again. It was something like "Pretty......something". I'll find it again.
My big project this past weekend was to clean up and plant the herb bed. Most of the herbs made it through.. it was also a bed I covered. I had 3 thymes that survived in smaller pots, and I replanted them into the ground. I have two new thymes as well, which give me an English thyme, French thyme, lemon thyme, a golden lemon thyme and one that isn't identified.
The pineapple sage and peach sage (non culinary) made it through, putting out new growth the last couple of weeks. In addition, I had a green sage that not only made it through in a small pot, but put down roots. I got a tricolor and a golden sage and planted them, as well. Only one of the echinacea survived the winter, so I replaced the two that died with the two new sages. The Texas tarragon is alive, I think. The roots are firm in the soil and there seems to be green in the lower stems. I hope it will recover, too.
The rosemary (upright), grew all winter. I am cutting in back at least 1/3, maybe a little more. Luckily, I have some co workers who are interested in the cuttings and using them to cook with, and a couple of the neighbors are using some as well. The marjoram is being trimmed back and it's joining the rosemary in some fragrant spring bouquets. At least one of the tutors told me her husband is now interested in meeting me, after the first rosemary chicken she made him.
Why he wants to meet me? I don't know. SHE cooked the chicken. I just cut the herb. Men.
I also seeded borage, fennel and a couple kinds of basil.
Still to plant: some tomatoes, bell peppers and peas along with some nice ivy geraniums.
Back to Bloom Day.
The dianthus was under cover and is beginning to bloom again. It's still way behind normal.
I've some blanket flowers two places in the yard, two plants in the rose bed, one of which is not doing very well, and two in the new triangular part of the herb bed. They should open any day now. I'm looking forward to it.
Two of the citrus trees, a blood orange and a mandarin satsuma are covered in buds. I may get some decent fruit setting this year. So far, I've gotten two blood oranges and three oranges from another tree. I have more hopes for next year.
And the peach tree has a bloom, and buds..and will have its very own post! Isn't it a gorgeous little bloom?
Labels: GBBD
posted by Nancy at 11:55 PM
7 Comments:
I'm so glad things are coming alive! I've been trying to decide where I could squeeze in a blood orange here...how long have you had yours?
Oh, oh, roses. It will be a month or so before I have roses. Wah.~~Dee
Hi Leslie! This will be the third summer I've had this little tree. The first fall I had 2 little blood oranges, but was absent for a critical time this last fall and so lost this year's crop. With as many blooms on the tree this year, I'll try to be both more proactive in feeding (it's in a big pot) and watering, and in watching it for any stress.
Well, I went and did it. I haven't veggie gardened since I was a girl, but I've planted tomatoes, onions, chives, cukes, jalapenos, basil, cilantro, thyme.
Not to mention a few small flats of flowers that I'm helping through this endless winter.
I'll be insufferable once they start to bloom!
Good to see you back.
mmmm, I bet the roses smell lovely.
Well, regardless of the winter loss, it looks pretty good to me! Especially the roses and that jessamine.
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