Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for September 2022. Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, I am pleasantly surprised by the blooms in my garden a week or so before the autumnal equinox which this year arrives on Thursday, September 22, 2022, at 9:04 P.M. EDT in the Northern Hemisphere. Now with that tidbit of info, let's look at some blooms! First up is a tall sedum, variety unknown. This one is a little floppier than some because it gets shade … [Read more...] about Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – September 15, 2022
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Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – August 2022
Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for August 2022. Where shall we begin? Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, June was dry, July was not as dry, and August has so far already brought over three inches of rain at the halfway point. This morning I took pictures after a brief shower that brought another .20 inches of rain, which sounds like more than 1/5th of an inch, doesn't it? But that's what it was. Up first is a new-to-me sunflower grown from seeds … [Read more...] about Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – August 2022
Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – July 2022
Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for July 2022. Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, I feel like I'm in-between high summer blooms and early fall blooms. I suspect the dry weather has delayed some flowers and caused other plants to bloom and be done with it. Dry weather? Well, not last night, when a thunderstorm whipped through in the early evening and left .60 inches of much-needed rain on the garden. Though I don't like to complain because—rain—I think the … [Read more...] about Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – July 2022
Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – June 2022
Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for June 2022. Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, we've been enjoying a mostly mild spring which has caused the garden, and weeds, to explode with growth. In the middle of Plopper's Field, a little delphinium popped up next to some tall phlox. I don't remember planting the delphinium but when I went looking for a tag for another flower, I find the tag for it. It's Delphinium grandiflorum Delfix® Blue. Had I bothered to … [Read more...] about Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – June 2022
Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day – May 2022
Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for May 2022. Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, it's suddenly hot like summer after a spring that never seemed to warm up. Now everyone and every plant seems to be in a big hurry to get settled before real summer arrives. I thought at one point that I'd try to see how many different pictures I could take that included violas in some form or fashion, like the picture above which includes columbine (Aquilegia sp.), Viola … [Read more...] about Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day – May 2022
Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – April 2022
Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for April 2022. Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, we are enjoying—experiencing?—enduring?—a slow spring. Slow is good in some respects. It gives everyone more time to enjoy the flowers, like these Epimediums, variety unknown. I like to call them Fairy Wings, though most people call them Bishop's Hats. Elsewhere in the garden, the daffodils have been putting on a fine, lovely, and long show, and now the tulips are … [Read more...] about Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – April 2022
