Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day

Submitted by My Garden Spot Blog

Welcome to Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day as hosted by May Dreams Garden. Head on over, following the link, and take a look at what’s blooming all over the place.

You want your “one world”? Look in the garden.

I’ve missed the last two bloom days because of being busy, and being mad that it hadn’t rained in for-frickin’-ever. However, it has rained a little now, and since the start of school, I am no longer working most of the day at the tutoring center, but am now on the 4-8pm school year hours. My retirement has truely been the opposite of my working carreer. I work now, more in the summer than I do during the school year.

Alas, the only rose I have, at present, in bloom, is Belinda’s Dream. The others have BEEN in bloom.. but as often happens, Bloom Day is either a week too late or a week too early for some flowers…so I guess that means it’s just about right for most.

Earlier this summer, I thought I’d lost my Angelonica Augustifolia after 4 years of faithful blooming. I would like to report that SHE’S BACK!!! I think she needs feeding, but it’s a big plant, for angelonicas, and seems determined to be a perennial in my garden. I like this plant. She smells of grape juice.

I finally have a good Canna to show. This one is almost root bound in a pot…and I need to transplant it here and there. Maybe in the spring…

My favorite wildflower/weed: Spiderwort (am I correct in naming it that?) has finally shown up. During the hot dry summer, she was conspicuously absent from her usual places, and I thought I’d lost the stand. I love rain!
The lantana is still blooming, but needs more rain to go crazy. I hope we get some good rain, enough for it to put on a good show, soon. The birds like the berries and I’ve missed the birds.

My stevia is blooming, little white flowers. I’ve discovered that stevia likes to sprawl around and poke it’s head through other plants. This piece was elbowing its way to the sun through a pinapple sage.

The basil is blooming. If you look closely at this picture, you’ll see, towards the back, a varigate basil.. Basil Perpetuo…an Austrailian basil. It’s the only one that hasn’t bolted..and it isn’t supposed to bolt at all. I kinda hope it does, though.. I love free plants.

This is what I mean by “free plants”. All the basil is reseeding itself in the herb garden and is showing up in the dangdest places. I don’t mind. Most of the places are empty, waiting for some smaller plants I’ve got there to grow into their living spaces. Till then, I get free, yummy and tender basil.

Marjoram is another herb that is perennial here. Along with rosemary, it is green for most of the winter, unless a really cold snap hits us. I cover it up then. This plant is about 5 years old.. just about as old as this blog.

These are two of the plants that have yet to fill their spaces. They’re “oh save me!” plants from a box store.. I’v e a few echinacia and yarrow I rescued. They’ll take through the winter to establish, and I hope they’ll take off in the spring.

The bougainvillea isn’t blooming profusely, but I was glad to get this particular picture. It illustrates how the plant grows. It was supposed to be a variagated, green with pale edges.. but some of it has reverted to solid green. Sigh.. that’s the part that has been blooming best..so it got to stay. The variagated part starts out as a solid cream color. It makes for a striking plant…looking like three different bougainvillea at the same time.

A fairly new plant, this is another jasmine..Crepe Jasmine. It has dark, glossy leaves and is a sturdy, drought resistant plant that seems to love the heat. I hope I can overwinter it.

My Firebush is blooming, as is the Esperanza. I have seen a couple of hummingbirds buzzing the two plants, hooray!!

Esperanza

This isn’t a particularly good shot..sigh..but my better camera’s batteries need recharging. The Angelwing jasmine is still blooming. It has also been drought resistant and hardy..and is actually beating back the morning glories for space! Go, Girlie, Go!

Not quite in bloom, but worthy of showing off, my plumeria is fianally, after three years, going to bloom! YIPEEEE! Looks like it will be a pink one. It was a mystery plant, passed along by a neighbor.

This has been the year that the Mealy Sage has come into its own. It likes hot and dry and got it in spades this summer. The bees have been happy with it too.

Well, that’s not all that’s in bloom..but pretty much all that is worthy of note..but the pictures I took today will give me three more posts… bwahahahah!

One Response to “Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day”

1. Yoda Smith Says:
   September 16th, 2009 at 1:55 pm

   Wow! I bet your garden is absolutely beautiful! I do not have a green thumb, I’ll probably kill anything I try to grow. How cool it is that you have herbs growing in your personal garden! I think that’s a great way to spend your time! I’m wondering how you use your stevia, since you take it straight from the plant. I’m a fan of stevia, I love how it not only safely sweetens, but is also nourishes my body too. I get mine in packet, liquid, and concentrate form from SweetLeaf Sweetener. It’s a very pure brand. Do you get products from a company as well, or do just grow it, and use it from there? What do you do?

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