It’s Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day again!
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In the scenery of spring, nothing is better, nothing worse; the flowering branches are of themselves, some short, some long.
–Ryokan
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Last month, it was all tulips, fritillaria, spring bush pea, brunnera, hellebore, and lovely weeds. The lovely weeds are still going strong, naturally (very naturally), along with a bushel of other blooms.
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These are photos from the last week or so (click on any to enlarge).
First up, the veggies and other edibles/medicinals:
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Now some ornamentals:
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And a couple of landscape shots:
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And last, but not least, the lovely Hieracium aurantiacum (orange hawkweed) … invasive in some places:
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If you can’t get enough June blooms, check out these bloggers’ Bloom Day posts.
Kathy at The Violet Fern (upstate NY)
Commonweeder (western MA)
Loree at danger garden (Portland, OR)
Flutter & Hum (Pacific Northwest U.S.)
Helen at The Patient Gardener’s Weblog (Malvern Wells, Worcestershire, England)
homage to the garlic mustard at Veg Plotting (Chippenham, Wiltshire, United Kingdom)
Lee at A Guide to Northeast Gardening (Long Island NY)
… and so many more at May Dreams Gardens.
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Come visit again in July!
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There Will Come Soft Rains
There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;
And frogs in the pool singing at night,
And wild plum-trees in tremulous white;
Robins will wear their feathery fire
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;
And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree
If mankind perished utterly;
And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
Would scarcely know that we were gone.”
― Sara Teasdale
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