What's blooming today?
Wordless Wednesday
This is a photo of Johnson’s Blue Geraniums. It’s a hardy perennial geranium.
I posted about this flower recently and I said that my geraniums have been looking more purple than blue lately.
I took the photo above a in May last year. Perhaps these geraniums are bluer in the cool spring weather and darker or more purple in color later in the season? Either that or perhaps my soil composition changed last year. I guess I’ll have to do a soil test.
Wordless Wednesday
This is a photo of my Sedum of unknown name in my backyard. The plant came with the house and must be one of the older varieties. It’s quite floppy, especially when well watered.
I took this photo at the beginning of October when the flowers were just starting to die down. The bumble bee’s were out and were especially enjoying the New York Asters but they like visiting the Sedum plants as well.
Wordless Wednesday
Compte de Chambord is perhaps my favorite rose.
It’s an antique rose that has the most lovely rose perfume scent. The rose is quite hardy as well! It’s branches have very little winter damage in the spring and green up quickly as the weather warms.
The first flush of flowers at the end of May or in early June just cover the rose bush and the scent from the flowers wafts through the air.
Some of my close neighbors tell me that they can smell my roses – especially in the morning – and I know most of the scent that they are smelling comes from Compte de Chambord and perhaps my Baron prevost and Jacques Cartier roses as they are my smelliest roses.