Once again it is time for Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day (GBBD), hosted by May Dreams Gardens. GBBD provides a mid-month opportunity to count up our flowering plants like a latter day pirate counting his treasures. So put on your eyepatch, and let’s go. The Driveway Border is the most colorful of all the front garden …
Category: Annuals, Native Plants and Wildflowers, Perennial flowers Tags: 'Italian White' Sunflower, Anise Hyssop, Bee Balm, Blackberry lilly, Calamint, Cup Plant, Daylilies, Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day, Joe Pye Weed 'Gateway', Mexican Sunflower, Oriental Lily 'Casa Blanca', Roses, Swamp Milkweed, Sweet Joe Pye Weed, Tithonia, Yellow Coneflower
Let’s start in the backyard. Rosa ‘Sally Holmes’ still has a few blooms, and even some buds straining to open before the frost. Most of the asters have gone to seed … But the dwarf New England Aster, Symphyotrichum novae-angliae ‘Purple Dome’, is a very late bloomer – it’s just hitting its stride. Rosa ‘Darlow’s …
Category: Grasses, Native Plants and Wildflowers, Perennial flowers, Shrubs and Small Trees Tags: Big Leaf Aster, Blackberry lilly, Chasmanthium latifolium, Cleome, Crabapple, fall, Grasses, Iris domestica, Native Plants, New England Aster, Northern Sea Oats, Northwind, Panicum virgatum, Prairie Dropseed, Purple Dome, Rosa 'Cassie', Rosa 'Darlow's Enigma', Rosa 'Sally Holmes', Roses, Senorita Rosalita, Sporobulus heterolepis, Switchgrass, Symphyotrichum macrophylum, Symphyotrichum novae-angliae
