What's blooming today?
Wordless Wednesday
I found these blooming in my garden bed this weekend. I used to have several clumps of these, but the rest seem to have disappeared or else they are coming up slower than this clump of blue iris that happens to be in a very sunny portion of the garden.
I just love how delicate the petals look. Each petal is so thin, and fine, with shades of other colors within.
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I believe I took this photo in early June last year.
My bleeding hearts, Dicentra spectabilis, aren’t even up yet, and they likely won’t come up until the end of April or beginning of May, but once they begin to grow they will grow fast and should be blooming by the end of May or early June.
I’ve always heard that Bleeding Hearts don’t get very tall but mine often grow close to three feet tall and spread out almost three feet in diameter. I have to stake mine so that they don’t flop – perhaps that’s why mine look taller than most that I see?
So far the only Spring flowers that have bloomed are my crocus’ but I expect that others will follow very soon, perhaps by next weekend if I’m lucky.
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Fragrant Cloud is a hybrid tea rose. I’ve only got one growing in my garden.
I think mine might be struggling. It’s never grown much, and reaches a maximum height of about two to two and a half feet each year. It does produce lovely full roses with tons of huge petals. However it only blooms two to three times per season for me and surprisingly I haven’t found the flowers to be all that fragrant.
I grow this rose beside Just Joey which out grows, out performs and out scents Fragrant Cloud by miles! Still I love this rose. It’s fighter. It keeps coming back each year.
Let’s hope it does this year now that I said that!
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