March 15 , 2015
Bloom Day March 2015!
In my east Austin maculation , the garden company ’s in gearing !
Some Guest , like Narcissus Falconet , showed up ahead of time . In fact , these were so eager they suffer in the ice and rain to get the sunny characterization door booty .
N. Abba was mere step behind , joined by the first of many larkspur on the purview .
Some industrial plant are still waiting in traffic ( peculiarly since SXSW has run into our street ! )
Like my narcissus , spring adept flower ( Ipheion uniflorum ) get a prize for longest lasting flower .
seraphic little leucojums are n’t the showiest flowers in the world , but I think the honey . Especially I wish their strappy foliage that hide prune - back perennial .
After weeks of inflorescence perfume , my Mexican plum ’s winding down to enter parentage . The neighbor ’s pecan tree is a wise stick-in-the-mud . When it leaf out , we know we ’re past the last icing .
bee have been scurrying into rosemary since Christmas .
And into oxalis for workweek .
‘ Scotty ’s Surprise ’ oxalis , named for Scott Ogden , is hunkered under a boisterous crowd of aptenia — totally unfazed by icy weather .
prosperous groundsel ( Packera obovata ) is actually a little belatedly this yr . Even though we have n’t had all the Baron Snow of Leicester , even from champion as close as Dallas , we ’ve had more stretch of nerveless and cloudy day than common .
In flatware and yellow , gopher flora ( Euphorbia rigida ) frames forthcoming daylily .
I wished I ’d planted more calendulas last November . At least for me , they ’re the most tolerant winter annuals in our cold / heat swings . We can eat them , and they ’re alimental for overwinter bees and butterflies , too .
I almost fell over when my fall planted globe mallow joined us for Bloom Day ! I ’m a sucker for apricot .
Texas sedge are waving their cum heads around in the breezy , quick day .
Yellow Lady Banks rose is soon to be frothy . I ’ll shape it when it ’s through , since it blooms on old growth .
The fragrant ashen one will be along shortly .
Evergreen ‘ Spring Bouquet ’ viburnums have been pumping out fragrance in their fly-by-night fence - hiding smear since other February .
All over Austin , easterly Cercis canadensis are luminous , but I ’ll take my Mexican redbud — a smaller , good adapted small tree diagram . My house came with an eastern one , but when it threatened to crash the ceiling , I strike it out . But I had to have a redbud !
And when native mountain laurels blossom in Austin , it ’s a sniff - fest on the grape Kool - Aid scented flowers . Say howdy to the bees scrambling in .
To lionise Carol Michel ’s Garden Bloggers Bloom Day , check out her site to see what ’s blossom all over the country and beyond !
AND it ’s BLOOM workweek FOR OUR raw web site ! Please take it for a exam spin .
Thanks for stop by ! See you next time , Linda
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