We have had unsettled air for the last week. The cold front from the North has been slowly moving South and this is meeting the slowly circulating air from the Gulf. It has given us brief showers every afternoon. The rain is welcome for the plants. The timing of the rainfall works out since I prefer to do my gardening in the mornings. The rain really helps to water in whatever I plant each morning.
The ground temperature has been steadily warming. It is safe to plant tender plants like some tomatoes. It is even time to plant some annuals I prepared from cuttings. I will soon be planting last year’s caladium bulbs that I had saved.
I will be joining the Six on Saturday crowd in the morning. Here is the link if you are curious https://gardenruminations.co.uk.
The Firecracker is among the bulbs that I planted last fall. Botanical name is Brodiaea. It is a native of California and Oregon much to my west but it is pretty enough to give it a go.
I love the great variety of cannas. This one I inherited from a local garden. I do not know the common name but I like this color.
Both these bloomers were started from seed. The Monarda is a native planted last year. This is the first blooming. I believe this one is M. bradburnia.
The Salvia is ‘Victoria Blue’. It is such a deep blue, special color with lush foliage.
Not the best photo, but both these shrubs are native to Alabama. The Viburnum has almost lace cap blooms. It is the first blooming of it that I have seen.
The shrub on the right is an Itea virginica known as Virginia sweet spire. A friend gave this one to me harvested from his hillside property. It is a prolific bloomer.
Hope you are finding pleasures in your garden.
Happy gardening!
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The colours on the leaf of your Canna are stunning, what colour is the flower? The blue of the salvia is also gorgeous, such a deep blue.
The flower color is orange. Not my favorite color but the blooms are large and showy.
I like the firecracker, it’s not easy to find around here, the flowers are very cute. About the canna, the flowers are orange, aren’t they?
Yes they are orange with very large blooms. This is a back row plant.
Your garden really is taking off now. I love the firecracker colours. I too have been growing Monarda from seed this year. Mine is still on the windowsill, but I have six plants, so I have happy with that.
You will not be disappointed. They are one of my favorites.
I’m glad to hear you’ve had some rain. I really like the contrast of the dark stems with the leaves and white flowers of the Sweetspire.
The ‘Firecracker’ looks interesting. The viburnum looks very much like arrowwood or V. dentatum but many of them look very alike.
Yes. This could be one of several species.
It is a small shrub with arching branches so it nicely complements the Tea olives and beautyberry nearby.
I have been very pleased with my Monard fistulosa. It self seeded well, and I hav etransplanted some seedlings to a new bed. Will move more today since the fist ones took off. I want to plant ratibida pinnata with it – in a nearby nature preserve, the two bloom together and it looks very nice! The salvia is a great color.
Oh, your “six” are beautiful! That Canna foliage is lovely, and you have so many things blooming. It sounds like you’re just ahead of us with spring conditions, although even here in the northern U.S., the “hard” frosts appear to be behinds us for the season. Yay! Time to plant, plant, plant…