What's blooming today?
Wordless Wednesday
This lovely rose is an Iceberg.
It’s a hardy shrub that, in this area, seems to only grow to about four feet tall by 3 feet wide.
It blooms several times each season. Each time there are multiple flowers that each last for a few days.
Iceberg doesn’t have much scent. Not for me anyway …. but it’s a lovely rose.
I love scented spring flowers, don’t you?
I believe that the Hyacinth is one of the strongest scented spring flowers. They’re lovely scent is so strong that if I have the kitchen window open just a little bit when the flowers are blooming in the back garden I can sometimes smell the scent in my living room at the front of the house!
Hyacinths come in many colors. You can get white, red, blue, purple, coral/peach and several other different colors. Rather than buying packages of bulbs with mixed colors I prefer to buy separate packages of bulbs with specific colors so that I can coordinate them in the garden beds. Placing certain colors beside other spring flowers that they will compliment.
I know the Spring is still a long way off so I’ll have to wait patiently for my hyacinths to bloom.
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This weeks theme is Skinny
I love lavender.
I grow a few different types in my garden. We’ll perhaps I should say I’ve tried to grow a few different types in my garden. The one that does best is Munstead. It seems to be the hardiest and I suppose the most forgiving?
The photo above is a close up of the tiny flowers on a slender lavender stem. You can see the skinny lavender leaves just underneath the lavender flowers. The other thicker green leaves belong to another plant. Once which I can’t remember which one it might be at this time.
Do you grow Lavender in your garden?