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Alium are such strange flowers … they are part of the onion family, but of course the ones we grow in our garden are ornamental and I’m sure are inedible.
These Alium tend to bloom at the end of June for me, but this year we’ve had a cooler than normal summer so they didn’t start to bloom until maybe the second week of July! Either way, we enjoyed seeing them … too bad they only bloom once.
This lovely rose is an English Rose. It’s called Graham Thomas and as you can see it has beautiful flowers … In fact, it blooms repeatedly throughout the growing season, so I can almost always enjoy the sight of it’s lovely flowers from mid-June through to late November or even early December.
Do you grow Roses?
I have quite a mix of flowers in my garden. The plants holding the majority are of course Roses, but even if it doesn’t seem like it at times I do grow other plants. Two of my favorite perennial plants are Lavender and Salvia. Both have lovely deep blue to purple blooms and of course, the Lavender has a beautiful scent.
The photo above is of my perennial Salvia in bloom. It blooms maybe three times each year and I love seeing those tiny little flowers. The blue purple color of their blooms look lovely near green hosta leaves and my roses (mainly pink).
Do you have a garden? What are your favorite plants?
It’s a virtual rose parade on my property … at least at this time of year. How fitting that I actually have a climbing rose called Parade!
Depending upon how warm it is each year, my many roses (over 60 plants!) begin to bloom anywhere from early to mid-June and the virtual rose parade goes on until early to mid July. Then, roses that are continuous bloomers (many of mine) sporadically put out roses until November or so each year.
Of course there’s nothing quite like the first flush of roses each season. Those blooms are the most abundant and most vibrant in color and scent. At least I think they are.
Do you grow roses?
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