This is becoming a trend: me taking Bloom Day photos on the 15th, then not posting them until later in the month.
Category Archives: gardening
trying not to kill the beautiful things
June 2019 in the Garden
In the time between when I took these photos (two weeks ago) and today, a switch flipped on the weather. We went from being rainy every day — one news station even reported that we had more rain than Seattle — to being sunny, dry, and 90 degrees.
As of mid-June, I estimated that my garden was about two weeks behind schedule. Now, I don’t know what to think. We’ll see what happens on the next Bloom Day in August.
Heritage English Rose
Now blooming in the front garden.
Peonies
Peonies are in bloom! I like to rescue the flowers that are bent over and bring them indoors. Now my house is filled with the sweet scent of late spring!
Iris ‘Peggy Sue’
I bought two specimens of Peggy Sue from White Flower Farms and planted them in the front garden last fall. One is currently in bloom; I’m still waiting for the second.
Not much is currently in bloom in the front garden yet, but the general color scheme is white, pink, and blue, so I thought Peggy Sue would be the perfect addition. She’ll have a pink Heritage rose and some white double peonies behind her in a week or so, which should make a nice vignette.
Peggy Sue is also a reblooming iris, so I’m looking forward to additional blooms come August or September. By then, she’ll be joined by some milkweed, hardy geraniums, Nikko Blue hydrangeas, and Heritage will still be in bloom.
Seriously considering making irises my “thing.”