by gardening days
Summer is here! I am busy busy in the garden! Here are a few photos of what is blooming.
Peonies must be the beloved perennial in every garden:
Newcomers this year are the tall large purple alliums, now an interesting seedhead:
Like sunshine, this generous old faithful, a low-growing yellow allium:
Many rhododendrons in our garden, this one with lovely red bud opening to peach:
And how does your garden grow?
June 3, 2014 in Home by Marja-Leena
Summer seems to have arrived rather bullishly in your part of the world. Whatever happened to gentle Spring? Lovely photographs from your garden; the effect on the heart is almost eternal.
Tom, actually we’ve had a long and gentle spring, as usual on the southwest coast of BC. It just includes many rainy days alternating with clear ones. I’m such a fair weather gardener who doesn’t like working with wet plants. Heh, now I complain about the heat.
Thank you for your most kind words about the photos – I agree for they make me feel wonderful too! Is that why I had a most rare full night’s sleep last night?
Beautiful things happening in your garden. My perennials are still asleep and geraniums, tomato and pepper plants that I put into earth were pulled out by extremely heavy long lasting rain and are lying on top of ground now. I will see to it all and spring will arrive here also.
Ellena, eastern Canadians have had a long hard winter, and it sounds like spring is taking its time, I’m sorry to hear.
I love peonies.Is it true that the bud can’t open unless an ant bites it,as my aunt claimed? And the delicate color of the rhodendrons is charming.
Ants love sweets, but it is an old wives’ tale that they are needed to open the bud. I find them annoying when I wish to cut the blooms for indoors. I read a suggestion to put them flower side down in water for a bit to chase the ants out. Must try today!
A colleague gave me a Peony from her garden to put on my desk last week. It’s wonderful, even now when it’s beginning to wilt it has character.
Rouchswalwe! Yes, it’s such a gorgeous flower. Your grandmother probably grew them in her garden as did mine and my mother.
Yes! And my mother carried on the tradition when she moved to this country. They’ve always seemed to me to be an ancient flower. As a girl, I had the idea that they cavorted with the dinosaurs.
I too can imagine the flower to be quite ancient. Apparently it’s been cultivated in China over 4000 years.
Once again, everything around here either turned green or came into bloom all at once within just a few weeks. After a couple of springs here you’d think I’d be used to it by now. Meanwhile, one of my christmas cactuses has covered itself in blooms this past ten days while the other one sits next door to it with none. I have no idea what’s up with that.
I too love your peony best of all. They grew in my mother’s garden too.
Susan, your spring sounds a lot like the springs of my youth in Winnipeg! It might even snow on the May long weekend and then it was summer! Spring was just a few days.
Christmas cacti are a mystery to me.
Desperate to weed! It’s going gangbusters around here at last…
Ah yes, those pesky weeds and the pruning of trees and shrubs…. and taking care of back aches 🙂
My back yard is complete jungle. Front just needs a few hours of weeding… Your flowers look very pretty!
Nature does like to take over and revert everything back to a jungle or rainforest!
I’m glad you like the flowers. My garden is at its most glorious in the spring.