The laughter heard at May Dreams Gardens today came not from these crocuses but from a new bloom that showed up this afternoon.
This picture of the crocuses is just a “decoy picture”, something for you to look at for a minute while I build up your anticipation for seeing what bloom showed up in my garden today.
Are you ready?
Oh, wait, before you look at my new bloom, I have another surprise.
While viewing all the bloom day posts, I compiled a list of all the posts with links to make it easier to get to them.
So far there are 86 blogs on the list. If you posted for Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day and you do not see your blog listed below, it is an oversight on my part. Please let me know and I’ll add you as soon as I read your comment or email letting me know. Likewise, if you find your link doesn’t work, let me know.
And if you are posting about your blooms later, as I get your comment, I’ll add you to this list.
Now, back to my new bloom…
The garden laughted today with a new blue bloom. This is Iris reticulata ‘Clairette’.
All those green sprouts around her will be more of the same.
This view looking straight down shows a hint of gold on the petals.
I’m very happy to see these flowers.
And now…
The list of all who joined us for Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day this month. Thank you all for sharing about your March blooms!
Frances at Faire Garden, Tennesee
Mr. McGregor’s Daughter at Mr. McGregor’s Daughter, Illinois
Melanie at Old Country Garden, New York
Ricki at Banners By Ricki, Oregon
Sherry at Sherry at the Zoo, Indiana
SuzyQ at Squirrel Chatter, Indiana
Rusty at Dragonfly Garden, Florida
Lisa at Greenbow, Indiana
Annie at The Transplantable Rose, Texas
Rose at Prairie Rose’s Garden, Illinois
Gail at Clay and Limestone, Tennessee
Muum at Muum’s Musings, Utah
Leslie at Growing a Garden in Davis, California
Yolanda Elizabet at Bliss, The Netherlands
Katarina at Roses and Stuff, Sweden
Gintoino at Jardim com Gatos, Portugal
Susan at Garden Rant, Maryland
Jan at Always Growing, Louisiana
Carolyn Gail at Sweet Home and Garden Chicago, Illinois
Nan Ondra at Hayefield, Pennsylvania
Entangled at Tangled Branches Cultivated, Virginia
Ki at MuckNMire, New Jersey
KJohnson at Musings of a Garden Historian, New York
Kay at Acorn Alley, Arkansas
Shady Gardener at Does Everything Grow Better in My Neighbor’s Yard, Iowa
Dave at The Home Garden, Tennessee
Karen at An Artist’s Garden, Wales
Chigiy at Gardeners Anonymous, California
Tina at In The Garden (The Leaf Chronicles), Tennessee
Curtis at Growing Thumbs, Oklahoma
Robin at Robin’s Nesting Place, Indiana
Lyntis at Garden Girl, Illinois
Doug at Doug Green’s Blog, Canada
Jean at Secrets of a Seed Scatterer, Georgia
Salix Tree at Windywillow, Ireland
Kate at Kate Smudges in Earth, Paint, and Life, Canada
Ewa at Ewa in the Garden, Poland
Green Thumb at India Garden, India
Kethry at Urbania to Stoneheads, Great Britain
Crafty Gardener at The Gardener Side of Crafty Gardener, Canada
Phillip at Dirt Therapy, Alabama
Weed Whackin’ Wenches at Weed Whackin’ Adventures, United States
Bonnie at Kiss of Sun, Texas
Meems at Hoe and Shovel, Florida
Chuck B. at My Back 40 (Feet), California
Vivé at Something About Blooming and Butterflies, Texas
Vanillalotus at New Sprouts, Texas
Pam from Tales from the Microbial Laboratory, South Carolina
Christopher C. at Outside Clyde, North Carolina
Rachel at In Bloom, Texas
Materfamilias at Materfamilias Writes, Canada
Cake at Rake Shovel Hoe, Indiana
Les at A Tidewater Garden, Virginia
Vertie at Vert, Texas
Jodi at Bloomingwriter, Canada
Aunt Debbi/Kurt’s Mom at Aunt Debbi’s Garden, Texas
Craig at Ellis Hollow, New York
Bill at Prairie Point, Texas
Sue at The Balcony Garden, Italy
MSS at Zanthan Gardens, Texas
Amy at Garden Rant, California
Jenn at Garden Djinn, Arizona
Gloria at Pollinators-Welcome, Illinois
Blackswamp_Girl (Kim) at A Study in Contrasts, Ohio
Kerri at Colors of the Garden, New York
Daniel at Daniel Mount’s Garden Journal, Washington
Layanee at Ledge and Gardens, Rhode Island
Kylee at Our Little Acre, Ohio
Rosemarie at Rosemarie’s Garden, Illinois
Kathy at Cold Climate Gardening, New York
Ether at Sweet Vitriol, Pennsylvania
Beckie at Dragon Fly Corner, Illinois
Arythrina at Metaphyta, Indiana
Pentunia’s Gardener at Petunia’s Garden, Washington
Corinna at Paradise Found, Germany
Lori at The Gardener of Good and Evil, Texas
Shirl at Shirl’s Gardenwatch, Scotland
Diana at Sharing Nature’s Garden, Texas
Mary Beth at Cultivating Paradise, Texas
Pat at CommonWeeder, Massachutsetts
Kathy at WashingtonGardener, DC and Maryland
Cindy at My Corner of Katy, Texas
Pam at Digging, Texas
Lisa at Millertime, Wisconsin
Lisa at A Shower Fresh Garden, Mississippi
Sarah at Sarah Laurence, England
OldRoses at A Gardening Year, New Jersey
Tamara at Can You Dig It, Texas
Indeed, Emerson was right, “earth laughs with flowers”!
Update 03/19 – Thank you to all who participated. It is a nearly overwhelming response. I hope you all will come back and post about your blooms again on April 15th!
I must say that Iris is very interesting. Ok, I have to say it. Contact! I would love to have one in my garden.
The bloggers participating in the bloom day is getting longer, with the addition of my blog making its first appearance. I also met a newbie GBBD blogger today as well.
Hi, I’m a late entry – just put mine up a few minutes ago. Thanks for hosting this. I don’t know if I will be a regular contributer, but this month? Here I am!
You missed me… but that’s because I was late! My story–and I’m sticking to it–is that I was waiting to hear some flowers laughing outside like they are doing all over May Dreams Gardens… but I haven’t heard any.
So I finally went and posted anyway. Here it is:
http://blackswampgirl.blogspot.com/2008/03/garden-bloggers-bloom-day-march.html
I was late with my post too……but got it in at 11:58 pm on the 15th of March!!
:0)
Lucky you to have an Iris reticulata! I would’ve laughed too 🙂 Your pretty little crocus are so sweet. I’m still waiting for mine!
My post is up…a little late but we were out to dinner at a friend’s house and the rest of the day was busy too. Do I need a note for being tardy teach?
Carol, thanks for giving us more blooms to view. That iris retic is wonderful. Must plant more of those, the list keeps getting longer, the bulb sellers are smiling! Thanks also for this list, it must have been a lot of work, the numbers increase so each month, with new contributors, new bloggers and people with something to show after a long winter, wonderful.
Frances at Faire Garden
Oh Carol, your blue iris was worth waiting for. It is gorgeous.
I really appreciate the way you have listed the GBBD blogs. It will be easier to see them all. I know I missed several and I want to see them all. I also like how you put where they are located. A lot of work on your part but much appreciated on my and I know everyone elses part.
Curtis, I found several new blogs in this process, and I have a very good idea of what is blooming where.
Jenn, You are the only contributor from Arizona so I hope you’ll participate again. (Your profile still says Michigan, but you did move, right?)
Blackswamp_Girl, I hope you hear some of that flower laughter in your garden very soon.
Nancy, Thanks, that was a nice trip to a garden center, but where are your blooms? We would love to know what is blooming where you are.
Kerri, No note needed, your post is beautiful with those forced flowers. They must really brighten up your church.
Frances, You’re welcome. I put the list together as I viewed each posting, so it did add time to that process.
Lisa at Greenbow, Thanks for the kind words, I don’t promise to this every month!
Carol, May Dreams Gardens
Love your iris! Glad to see this round up. Please add me to the list: Sandy Cove 365+1
What a sweet little iris!
Wow Carol, it must have a been a lot of work putting that list together! Thank you so much. I can see I have quite a few more gardens to visit!
I know from doing the GBGP just how much work it is to compile a list of links this way, Carol. So thank you for your enthusiasm and your hard work, as always. I know what I’ll spend this sunny Sunday doing (too cold to work outside, but at least the snowstorm missed US for a change….)
Hi Carol! I am officially “posted” for bloom day!
Hi Carol – love all the giggles from your garden! I noticed how much more spring-like it seemed in Indy on Tuesday than here.
I have been having fits with my internet connection as well as uploading pictures to Blogger, so I finally got my bloom day post up.
It took me HOURS and I’m so frustrated! I’m also so very behind with reading and commenting on others’ blogs. Hopefully, things will go better with the connection today and I can get caught up a little bit.
Wow Carol, that must have taken you hours. Thank you! I was just looking at my stats and was curious to see why today I’d got so many referrals from MDG. Now I know.
Hope you saved yourself enough time to do some gardening too 🙂
I’ll try to laugh along but I’m not feeling very cheerful with two feet of snow still on the ground. But that is a nice surprise and I can’t help but smile
I got in a little late… and I don’t know if it counts… but I hope to really be joining you next month!
You & Stuart are duking it out for the James Brown garden bloggers’ award (hardest working woman/man in gardening blogging). The list is a great idea – so much more convinient that having to open the comment box first. Thanks!
Carol, thanks so much for taking the time to put this very convenient list together! It’s wonderful to see so many participating.
I’ve jumped on board for my first GBBD! What an excellent idea!
That was a great idea! I would have posted a bloom day picture, but since there are no blooms to be seen under all of my snow I had to take a pass at it this time. I enjoyed all of the posts that the rest of you made though!
Carol, I apologise for being late with my Bloom day entry. I was so excited though to have something to post this month.
The iris is beautiful. I am going to look for some of these early spring bloomers!
Carol, that Iris is strikingly beautiful. I love it.
Thanks for your invitation to participate on my blog the other day. I don’t have much to report yet but maybe I will on April 15! I read your blog often so I won’t forget.
Mary
I love that Iris! I’m seeing so many plants I’ve never seen before.
I completely forgot about Bloom Day until it was dark outside, so here I am a day late!
http://gardenerofgoodandevil.blogspot.com/2008/03/march-bloom-daya-little-late.html
Thanks again, Carol for doing this! I have posted TWO whopping days late. But there are many lovely blooms to see at http://www.sharingnaturesgarden.blogspot.com/
I LOVE Clairette – she is so delicate – just like her name.
A little late but here’s my March post! http://cultivatingparadise.blogspot.com/2008/03/garden-bloggers-bloom-day.html
I spent the weekend admiring the beautiful azaleas in Houston. How I’d love to grow them!
Thanks, Carol, for GBBD
Add to me to the list – tardy, but present – http://washingtongardener.blogspot.com/.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day to all and I hope wherever you are, your garden is all green or turning back to green today. I’ve been adding new bloom day posts to the list as I’ve gotten comments or found them through my feed reader.
We are up to 79 gardeners showing us what is blooming in their gardens in mid-March.
But the Internet world is BIG so there is room for more. If you are just know posting or have posted for bloom day about your blooms and don’t see yourself on the list, let me know, and I’ll add you.
Thank you to everyone who participated this month!
Carol, May Dreams Gardens
Hey, Carol, it’s the first time I’ve done a Bloom Day post; due to unexpected surgery last week, I didn’t get the post done until this morning. The Sharing of the Green should occur in a timely manner in months to come. I look forward to meeting you and many of the other bloggers at GBSF.
~Cindy~
Better late than never, I hope, Carol! Here’s my Bloom Day post—and it’s chock full of flowers.
What a great idea and terrific images, all! I hope I’m not too late to join Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day. My photos of Regent’s Park in London were taken on March 15, but I only post weekly. I can’t take any credit for the blooms but do enjoy them. Please add me to your list or click on the direct link below:
http://blog.sarahlaurence.com/2008/03/london-art-and-gardens.html
holy smokes! that is a huge list and a lot of WORK for you! thank you for compiling it in one place so i can look at all the lovely blooms.
Nice iris! Thanks again for hosting Bloom Day!
I got in a little late as well…hope to have my act together better next month!
Tamara
Can You Dig It?
http://can-u-dig-it.blogspot.com
May Dreams Gardens,
I never seem to get my post together on time, so I’m submitting my first post on my early spring bulbs (New Jersey, zone 6b) a week late:
http://heirloomgardener.blogspot.com/2008/03/garden-bloggers-bloom-day-early-spring.html
Hopefully, I’ll get my post in on the fifteenth of next month.
-Heirloom Gardener
Carol, I am woefully late this month, but had really hoped for something outside.
Anyway…this is the best I could manage for March.
Debbie
Ohhh…I wanna play…now I just need to figure out how to do it…sorta new to this linky-bloggie thing. What a fun idea!