Lately, I've been meeting a number of gardeners and when I mention that I maintain a couple of garden blogs they've ask: "Do you have a garden or just blog about it?" So, I present to you a few photographs of what is blooming in garden as proof that I actually have a garden.
I have a few lilies in bloom now that were clearance purchases a couple of years back. I don't really like lilies all that much but couldn't resist buying the bags of bugs for fifty cents.
A lot of garden plants you'll come across are called lilies even though they are not true lilies. The ones pictured above are true lilies from the genus Lilium and grow from bulbs which are eaten in some cultures. I'm not really a big fan of Asiatic or Oriental lilies but they seem to do really good in my garden and other gardens in my neighborhood without much care.
Daylilies are one of those plants that have "lily" in the English common name but are not actually lilies. The organge daylilies are still blooming and a couple more have started to bloom.
I'll share the pics of the others in next blooming update because I have several and they'd make this post longer.
Daylilies are one of those plants that have "lily" in the English common name but are not actually lilies. The organge daylilies are still blooming and a couple more have started to bloom.
I'll share the pics of the others in next blooming update because I have several and they'd make this post longer.
I got seeds for a climbing variety of nasturtiums and it has begun to bloom, but it isn't doing any actual climbing.
A couple of common Rudbeckias I grow for the butterflies and urban bees that visit my garden. At the end of the growing season I just take the seed heads and burry them in the soil. This year a new one has emerged right next to these two.
This double blooming plant has me looking in front and backyard gardens around the neighborhood for the source of the pollen the bees or butterflies brought in to hybridize my single flowering varieties.
Another late June bloom from my garden. These allium bulbs stink like all other alliums but the blooms actually have a perfumed scent to them that reminds me of jasmine.
Don't have much of a shade garden myself besides the Bleeding Hearts and a few NOID hostas. This one was blooming late June early July underneath the tree in the front yard. Sometimes called Plantain Lily even though, like the daylily, it isn't a true lily.
What's blooming for you in Chicago?
This double blooming plant has me looking in front and backyard gardens around the neighborhood for the source of the pollen the bees or butterflies brought in to hybridize my single flowering varieties.
Another late June bloom from my garden. These allium bulbs stink like all other alliums but the blooms actually have a perfumed scent to them that reminds me of jasmine.
Don't have much of a shade garden myself besides the Bleeding Hearts and a few NOID hostas. This one was blooming late June early July underneath the tree in the front yard. Sometimes called Plantain Lily even though, like the daylily, it isn't a true lily.
What's blooming for you in Chicago?