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What is blooming in your garden right now?

37 replies

poopscoop · 08/05/2009 09:11

Tulips - almost finishing

Azalea

French lavender

lily of the valley.

Lilac almost there.

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InternationalFlight · 08/05/2009 09:15

Ditto tulips

bluebells also on the wane

sedum

have got a few buds on roses

apples and plums finished blossoming now

buttercups

InternationalFlight · 08/05/2009 09:16

Oh and wallflowers! Violets have gorn off now.

AMumInScotland · 08/05/2009 09:16

Daffodils and a few tulips. The first Rhododendron of the year has bloomed and gone, others not started yet. Oh, and some cherry blossom.

southeastastra · 08/05/2009 09:16

everything - my neighbour's blue bush is back in it's glory

InternationalFlight · 08/05/2009 09:17

Is that a ceanothus SEA? looks like the blue liquorice allsorts.

fishie · 08/05/2009 09:18

tralalala i love this time of year in my garden before it gets cast into shade by humungous tree.

geraniums
wallflowers
red roses
that robin weed thing with pink flowers
forgetmenots
blue bush forgotten its name
primulas

it is all blue and pink and purple.

southeastastra · 08/05/2009 09:19

yes (had to google to make sure)! there are a few round here, they look so lovely atm. my dad has one that's always late blooming and he gets so mad at it compared to the others .

Uriel · 08/05/2009 09:19

Apple tree - the last one's still got some blossom on it.

Clematis alpina 'Pamela Jackman'.

Dicentra - beautiful.

Some late primroses.

Forget-me-nots..

Paeonies nearly there, and Philadelphus.

Cornflowers just starting.

The last few flowers on the quince.

poopscoop · 08/05/2009 09:20

i think mine needs a couple of weeks and everything will be flush with colour. Cot a massive cistus (sounds painful!) and it is almost ready to burst into colour.

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themildmanneredjanitor · 08/05/2009 09:22

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poopscoop · 08/05/2009 09:24

MMJ - i have been looking at everyone elses gardens from my car and their lilacs are all fully out, or could theirs be buddlieas? Or buddlieas later flowering?

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poopscoop · 08/05/2009 09:25

Is it just me or are everyone elses strawberry plants absolutely full of flowers? Looks like i am in for a bumper harvest.

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ChasingSquirrels · 08/05/2009 09:26

lilac
aqualigia
mexican orange blossom
couple of rose flowers
yellow bush - don't know what it is
giant chives
little white thing

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ChasingSquirrels · 08/05/2009 09:31

buddleia would be later, well it would be here - East Anglia

Uriel · 08/05/2009 09:32

poopscoop - yep, strawbs are covered in flowers. Can't wait!

Marthasmama · 08/05/2009 09:32

Dandelions and harebells.

gardeningmum05 · 08/05/2009 09:33

sea holly, forget me nots, fox gloves shooting up and lovely corn flowers

ChasingSquirrels · 08/05/2009 09:34

oh yes - forget me nots
and some verbascum

and also dandilions

poopscoop · 08/05/2009 09:34

my lilac is lilac in colour, I just thought it stange to see everyone elses in full bloom round here and mine wasnt so it made me wonder if it was something else i saw. I shall have to get out of the car and have a closer look at the leaves to see what it is.

Oh and I have a petunia in bloom - just the one!

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FigmentOfYourImagination · 08/05/2009 09:50

In bloom now

Mexican orange blossom

Alliums

Aquilegia

White Marguerites

In bud

Yellow climbing rose

Double flowered deep pink rose "Gertrude Jekyll" (2 of)

Double flowered white rose "Winchester Cathedral"

Big dark purple flowered clematis
(can't remember the name)

Just finished

An early flowering cleamtis with the most gorgeous delicate blue/lilac bell flowers. The flowers have now turned into white pom pom seedheads

Pink frothy crab apple blossom

Early flowering white camellia

Lily of the valley shrub (Pieris Forest Flame)

Magnolia grandiflora

WynkenBlynkenandNod · 08/05/2009 10:05

Rhododendron
Choisya
Yellow climbing rose
Phlox
Forget me nots
Strawberry plants
Azalea
Something white on the bank
Euphorbia
Honeysuckle (tiny bit)
Heather
Tomatoes
Spirea

All the above are in flower atm.

Bluebells are going over, have had daffodils, a white clematis, primroses, snowdrops, laurel and something ate my one and only tulip.

Lots of buds on pink climbing rose and honeysuckle round the front door, 2 clematis have buds, another climbing rose, wild rose and snapdragon and on DS's busy lizzie.

And apple tree that I have bought DH for his birthday on Monday is flowering away happily
in my neighbours garden. First petunia on the seedlings on my window sill came out yesterday

skankywitch · 08/05/2009 12:37

bluebells
black tulips other colours finished
azalea orange
clematis montana
choisya tenata (mexican orange blossom)
strawberry plants covered in flowers
heather pink
ceanothus*2
dark green shrub with orange pom pom flowers on it.
mid green shrub with dark pink flower spikes
Agapanthus blue (from garden centre last week)
Dahlias
pieris white flowers

Also v excited about new mower but grass too wet at moment. Can't wait to see beautiful stripy lawn, old mower broke 2 weeks ago and lawn is very jungle like. ( I KNOW I AM SAD)

OrmIrian · 08/05/2009 12:39

clematic montana. Beautiful! And that's about it My garden is an overgrown jungle and doesn't do flowers. Oh I have a lovely variegated wigelia (sp) in the front.

FigmentOfYourImagination · 08/05/2009 12:40

I love the gardening board. So civilised and restful.

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