trying not to kill the beautiful things
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.
Now blooming in the front garden.
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!
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.”
I’m filing this under Bloom Day, even though I didn’t actually get out on the 15th to photograph the blooms in my garden. These photos were taken on the Friday before Memorial Day, when I had a day off to do some weeding.
I can always tell if spring is earlier or later than usual by when the tree peony blooms. A later spring means she’s in bloom for Memorial Day.