trying not to kill the beautiful things
Bloom Day is the 15th of each month… and that’s exactly when I took these photos, even though today’s post is dated the 24th. Heh.
My Zone 6 garden is well on its way to waking up from winter, despite a slow start to the spring. In the week since I took these photos, many more blooms have opened up — including my one of my favorites, the tree peony. But, since we’re talking Bloom Day and not today, I’ll keep my photos to the ones I actually took on the 15th.
I moved several irises last summer in the hopes of better balancing out my garden design — and getting some irises to bloom that I’d never seen in bloom in the six summers I’ve been in this house.
This particular iris is one that has been in this spot the whole time, yet this year is the first it’s bloomed for me.
I’ll take it.
Putting my son on the bus every morning gives me the opportunity to walk past my flowerbeds daily (instead of just driving past them as I come up the driveway in the evening) and keep closer tabs on what starts blooming when.
The candytuft also started blooming this morning, but this Camassia won the photogenic award for today.
I saw these purple blooms from a distance while getting my son on the bus this morning, and had to take a minute to figure out what was growing here that I hadn’t planted.
Answer: lunaria that reseeded from last year (or the year before). In a while, they’ll form seed pods that look like silver coins — hence their other common name of Money Plant.
