The most beautiful and active month of the year -May is over but June is richer with larger blooms and nice sunny weather. Kids vacation starts tomorrow and they are so so excited! I am too as I am tired of waking-up early.
Let me show you some new blooms from the week-end and the beginning of the week. The most reliable and the most popular perennials grown in a garden are blooming now like Irises:
My favorite is the white one:
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| Japanese Iris |
Here is a collage of my entire iris collection:
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| Counter clock wise starting with the white: Japanese Iris, Siberian Iris, Yellow Flag Iris, 3 German Irises all received as gifts-don't know the varieties, Iris cristata |
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| Simple Peonies |
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| Double red |
Love the red double peony as it transforms in a alien flower at the end of the bloom.
Below is a collage of my individual peonies portraits. Three varieties are missing as the buds are still closed. If you do not grow peonies, you should! These are the easiest plants to grow! That is not what I said 14 years ago. I planted my first purchased plant (without flowers or buds -big mistake) and it didn't flower for 4 years. Then I pulled it out and threw it in the trash. It might have been a wild variety or I might have planted it too deep. Every other one that I tried after that was fine and grew bigger and bigger every year including dormant roots which is how I started 4 of the 5 varieties shown below.
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| Lupines |
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| Oriental poppies going and going - Papaver "Princess Victoria Louise" |
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| Tradescantia |
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| Widow's tears or Tradescantia |
I left the Clematis known as the "Queen of the Climbers" for the end. There are so many varieties out there. So far I grow four that bloom at different times of the year. I am sure I will continue to add more as I mastered the pruning of all 3 classes of clematis last year.
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| Clematis "Marie Louise Jensen" and me |
Last year by mid June this clematis got a lot of attention when combined with the red rose climber "Blaze" I posted that combination
here and it is by far the most visited post on my blog. The roses all suffered after the past frigid winter and died almost all the way to the ground. I have been lucky that all started to grow again including the climber which has buds on one of the stems. It will take a couple of years to recover to its former glory but I am sure that it will happen.
What is blooming in your garden right now? If you have a blog, leave me a link to your last post and I will for sure check it out.
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