What's blooming today?
A lovely Clematis Jackmani in the rain.
My oldest clematis vine is the Jackmani. Each year it grows in two directions along our wooden fence and reaches 15 to 20 feet each way. It’s huge. I drape the vine across the top of the fence as it gets fuller and heavier and when it blooms there’s a rich thick carpet of deep purple flowers.
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What’s in a name? A lot when you can’t remember the name of an annual plant!
I’ve been racking my brain trying to remember what this short yet lively little plant is called. At the time that I took this photo the plant was perhaps 8 inches tall, at the most it gets to 12 inches, but I don’t believe it gets that tall.
Does anyone know what this is?
BTW I took this photo while in the rain so you can see tiny droplets of water on the flower spikes.
My tiger lilies have been blooming for at least two weeks. The colors are so vibrant!
The previous owners of our house had very little in their garden – some vegetables, two young fruit trees in the middle of the lawn?, rhubarb, raspberries, and some weedy plants that I can’t remember the name of but they were sure hard to get rid of! Oh and Lilies. Lots of orange lilies.
We kept the lilies and added other varieties. We also kept the raspberries but as you’ve probably figured out we changed most everything else.
I believe it was the vibrant color of the lilies that drew me outside to take their photograph one day last week. It had been raining on and off all day and was in fact lightly raining even as I stepped into the garden.
The lilies just looked so fresh. As if they were enjoying the rain. I had to take their photo.
Wouldn’t you have been drawn outdoors if you saw 20 or 30 lilies like the one above virtually glowing in the garden?
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