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It’s looking a lot like Spring around here in Toronto, but I’ll have to wait until June before I see these tiny Heuchera flowers again.
Heuchera plants only seem to bloom once a year- at least the ones I have only bloom once each year, and it’s usually in late Spring or early summer. Oh but when they bloom they become such pretty plants!
Do you grow Heuchera in your garden?
It’s snowy and cold outside right now, but indoors I have a garden of sorts in my kitchen.
The orchids, amaryllis and hibiscus have all been taking turns blooming away and it’s been lovely. It’s so nice to have flowers indoors in the winter – especially when they aren’t cut flowers in a vase!
I not only grow plants in several raised garden beds in my front and back yards, but I also have hanging baskets and planters filled with summer flowers such as Petunias, Stock, Impatiens and occasionally I’ll plant some lovely Dianthus or Sweet William among the annuals.
The photo above is a picture of lovely Sweet William flowers growing in a hanging basket. The Petunia’s had long since died off, but the Dianthus was still going strong.
I take my flower baskets down for winter and store them by the side of the house or on the patio, but because the baskets are small and shallow any perennials that are planted in them rarely make it through winter .. however, some like Sweet William will reseed and I should have Sweet William growing in that basket again come next summer.
This is my first year with Hydrangea in the garden. Earlier this year when the plant started to bloom each cluster of flowers was half blue and half pink. It was like the plant couldn’t decide which color it should be. I’ve since heard that newly planted Hydrangeas will often be bi-colored in their first year or so. Of course the PH of the soil can also help to determine whether you’ll have blue or pink flowers if you have a hydrangea that can be either color.
By late summer my Hydrangea’s had decided that they were pink hydrangeas and now that Autumn has arrived the petals have turned a deep rose pink. Lovely! Yes I know the petals are starting to fade as the plant dies down for winter, but I just wanted to show you their gorgeous fall color.
Do you grow Hydrangeas? If so, what kind do you grow?
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