What's blooming today?
I like to always have a hibiscus around.
Sometimes I’m not all that successful keeping them alive inside my dark house in the winter but I always have one each summer, whether it’s new or one that survived the winter.
I just love hibiscus flowers. They’re so large and beautiful.
Did you know that hibiscus flowers are edible? I don’t eat them but I do occasionally drop a hibiscus flower in with my box turtles and they eat it up. They love eating flowers.
I took this photo about two weeks ago.
Unfortunately I can’t remember the name of this plant. It’s a spring flower that for me, only blooms for approximately one week each year. The name is something like pasiflora … but yeah, I know it’s not a pasiflora as it’s certainly not a passion flower.
Whatever it is, it’s a lovely spring flower who’s blooms open fully in the daylight hours and close as the light dims in the late afternoon. I have mine planted in a fairly shady area, so it does well in shade.
This flower is no longer blooming and it’s foliage will die down sometime in the next few weeks as we come into the warm weather of summer.
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Pansies and Violas don’t do well here come summer.
Oh they bloom nicely in the spring, but once the warm weather hits they struggle. Toronto is a very hot and humid town come summer. The pansies and violas that I’ve managed to get to stay alive and even keep blooming into July end up looking kind of straggly, and leggy. By this I mean their stems grow long, and spread out and they appear to be in a permanent state of dehydration.
Believe me, if you live in a warm climate or an area that gets hot in the summer it’s not worth the fight of trying to keep pansies and violas going through summer. Let them die down if they are inclined to do so. Let them go peacefully. They reseed well, so even annuals ones have a chance of coming back the following spring.