I've noticed many garden bloggers post what's blooming on the 15th of the month. Until now I had always associated Bloom day, or Bloomsday, with June 16, 1904, the date when James Joyce's Leopold Bloom set off on his adventures around Dublin in Ulysses. Joyce lovers everywhere celebrate that day with parties at which they read selections aloud. Is there a connection?
Anyway, here's what's blooming in my yard at the moment:
Exotics include tulips, Vinca minor, Iberis, dwarf irises, bleeding hearts, Brunnera 'Jack Frost,' dandelions, creeping charlie, and Norway maple. Natives include celandine poppies, wild ginger, violets, prairie phlox, Virginia bluebells, and serviceberry. A few other things, such as the lilacs, are about to pop and will be done before the next bloom day. So perhaps these lists should be posted every two weeks.
I'm not much of a photographer, but my friend Joe took these pictures of
what was blooming in Thatcher Woods on April 10 and shared them with me. At left are spring beauties (Claytonia virginica) and bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis), at right is trout lily (Erythronium americanum).
Anyway, here's what's blooming in my yard at the moment:
Exotics include tulips, Vinca minor, Iberis, dwarf irises, bleeding hearts, Brunnera 'Jack Frost,' dandelions, creeping charlie, and Norway maple. Natives include celandine poppies, wild ginger, violets, prairie phlox, Virginia bluebells, and serviceberry. A few other things, such as the lilacs, are about to pop and will be done before the next bloom day. So perhaps these lists should be posted every two weeks.
I'm not much of a photographer, but my friend Joe took these pictures of
what was blooming in Thatcher Woods on April 10 and shared them with me. At left are spring beauties (Claytonia virginica) and bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis), at right is trout lily (Erythronium americanum).
Comments
Some bloggers post their blooms every friday. Tootsie at Tootsie Time hosts that meme. Katarina at Roses and Stuff used to host Blooming Friday, but it looks like she decided to end it.
Thank you so much for your comments on my blog! My husband asked me why I posted war pictures on the garden blog. How to explain that if that war ended differently I wouldn't have a garden, and there wouldn't be me. Most people prefer to think only about nice things. Thanks again!
I do so love white flowers and your elegant selection was, in my eyes, absolutely perfect.
Thank you for your generous comment to my latest posting to which I have replied.
That is interesting about the lilacs. Mostly we in Illinois suffer gardener's envy when viewing pictures from warmer climes. I, too, think it's important to try to understand history.
Thanks for visiting. I too, love white flowers and hope to visit Sissinghurst some day.
Thanks for the blog, and I look forward to more visits to your garden as it grows. And the Bloomsday reminder, which brought up happy reminders of the perfect sunny days we enjoyed in Ireland.
MRG
MRG, I imagine Ireland must be beautiful in June.
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