GARDEN BLOGGERS' BLOOM DAY APRIL 2010

Thanks Carol at Maydreams for inviting us to share our Spring garden blooms.

If one of the hottest summers on record followed by fall rain and the coldest winter for years is what it takes to produce this incredible blooming spring, then I'm game for another one! This year the flax is the prettiest I have ever seen. Huge arching sprays of clear blue flowers.

Then there is Zephirine drouin. The incredibly fragrant rose which grew out of a crack between the pavers at the end of the pool garden. It grew from root, left in the ground after I removed a pot which held a cutting of the rose. Left to its own the arching branches are packed with pink blooms.

I wish I knew the name of this yellow iris given to me last fall. I can't believe it flowered the first year. It certainly is a beauty.

Poppies are everywhere. Both the orange California poppy and the large single pink poppy seen here among catmint and feather grasses behind the vegetable garden beds.

These pink ones are growing along with the peas by the greenhouse.

This one decided it was going to be frilly this year. I guess this is how new plants come about. I will save the seeds but they will probably cross pollinate with the other single pink poppies.

Purple larkspur among the oregano in the herb garden.
Coumbine

Damianita
Blackfoot daisy with square bud primrose and four nerve daisy.

Claret cup cactus.

Silver leafed gazania.

In the cactus bowl two little bloomers.

Pink primroses galore.

and yellows.
Chives
Flowering cilantro. I let the seeds fall and they will come up next winter.

Dahlberg daisy, growing between the pavers in the veg. garden. Pops up every year and is deer proof. Not that the deer find their way in here, except when I leave the gate open.