Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day! April 2009

Posted by Katie Elzer-Peters
April 14th, 2009
Filed in Annuals and Perennials
Tags: blossom, flower, flowers

Carol, over at May Dreams Gardens, started the Garden Bloggers Bloom Day.  I am now looking forward to this as one of my favorite days of the month!  It is kind of like a virtual garden tour.  You can go around to all of the garden blogs and see what is blooming in your friends’ gardens all over the world!  Another good thing about bloom day:  It is always the 15th of the month.  In March, that is the Ides of March.  In April (in the US) Tax Day.  The bloominess of blogging somehow cheers these days up.  Here are my blooms for April!

Officially Spring

My March bloom day post showed that we were still firmly in Winter.  I had pansies and camellias blooming.  This month, we are officially in spring!

From Upper left, left to right:

Top Row:  Indian Hawthorne, Coreopsis, Lady Banks Rose, Pig Squeak

Second Row: Scilla, Purple Homestead Verbena, Heuchera, Heuchera

Third Row: Tete a tete daffodil, Knockout Rose, Marigold

Bottom row: Daffodil, Honeysuckle, Bachelor’s Buttons

Notes:  To be “honest” the marigold and the pink heuchera are transplants that were in bloom when I bought them last Saturday.  Everything else has been growing in my garden for at least a year and are “naturally” in bloom.  The yellow bloom of the lady banks rose is the ONLY bloom on my three plants that hate me.  I might need to move them.  I had never seen these plants until I moved to Wilmington.  They are a thornless climbing rose with little yellow flowers, and they are a traditional plant here.

Enjoy bloom day and don’t forget to file your taxes!  Take the sting out of the occasion by visiting your favorite garden blogs to see their blooms!