What's blooming today?
Wordless Wednesday
Well after all that snow and our long cold winter it’s finally sunny over here in Toronto!
It’s a nice change. It’s been so dark and gray the sun is almost like a special treat.
I was just thinking yesterday as I watched our puppy lying in the kitchen with the sun shining on her sleek black coat that she hasn’t seen much sun yet in her short life. Nor has she really been able to enjoy lying in a sun beam.
I think she’ll be a real sun love just like these sunflowers!
The year after we landscaped our backyard and created our raised garden beds we purchased a lovely Tamukeyama cutleaf Japanese maple. As you can see from the photo above it’s branches cascade downward, it’s leaves are narrow and delicate and bright burgundy – red most of the growing season. It’s absolutely gorgeous.
It will never be a very big tree. I believe at most it will be five feet tall. At this point it’s only about three feet tall and because it’s branches create a shady area below the tree I decided to grow shade loving plants like the Hosta Sum and Substance that you see growing beside it in the above photo.
The Japanese maple and the light green hosta leaves make a lovely combination don’t they?
I think this year I’m going to try to move a few of my plants around to see if I can create a few more stunning displays of plants that compliment each other beautifully.
What are your favorite plant/color combos in your garden?
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This rose is Graham Thomas. It’s an English Rose by David Austin. Isn’t it lovely?
This rose grows to close to 8 feet or so each year, even after a bad winter when I’ve had to prune the rose bush down to a foot or less in the spring. It’s very resilient. It also blooms abundantly each season. I’d say once it gets going the blooms come almost continuously actually!
Sorry I’m so late with my GTS post this week. My mouse died yesterday and I didn’t get a new one until this afternoon … plus we’ve had major storms here again too. Ice storms and lots of rain and that’s affected my internet connection. As a result of all of that I wasn’t able to post until now. I sure hope my internet connection stays up this time.
Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information. GTS participants remember to check in at As the Garden Grows each week so that we’ll know you made a new post!