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| Morden Centennial Rose |
My rose bushes have started to bloom and my first tiger lilies are popping open! I love this time of year when all my hard work and efforts are rewarded by floral beauty in my flower beds!
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| Morden Blush rose |
The most obvious thing I see, as I gaze at my garden beds are my white daisies however! They seem to be everywhere which adds a pretty blanket of white, but they are creating too much shade for the rest of my plants. I already cut a lot of them off and filled 4 vases in the house, adding a few Siberian Irises, Persian cornflowers and white yarrow.
I'm afraid of what might happen if I leave the daisies to finish blooming. They will attempt to take over my whole garden! I started chopping them all down this week to keep the prolific seeds in check.
Top of Rock garden- I dug out (yanked out, in some cases) 3 daisy plants and replaced them with 2 border pinks (dianthus) and a small blue flax. Then I added a bunch of cedar chip mulch. The liatris has more room and sunshine now, as does the rogue lily growing there.
The blue sages there have grown well and have nearly finished blooming.
Note to self:
Be ruthless! Dig up most white daisy plants. Maybe replace with Shasta daisies?
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| The tiger lilies are stunning |
Lupines
My lupines have started to bloom and they look so pretty, I love the big tall spikes of pink and dark blue blossoms.
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| Perennial geranium (left) and pink lupines |
Many of the cosmos that I had started from seed are blooming already. I threw a bunch of seeds in one flower bed and I think every single one has sprouted! Time to cull some of them now.
The holly hocks against the house are growing huge as is the one in the stack stone bed next to the birdhouse. Some have self seeded at the front of two of my beds and I had to dig them out.
I yanked 2 small to medium sized holly hocks out this week, but there are at least 3 more than need to be removed. Too close to my Morden blush rose bush.
I'm pleased to see that my ligularia on the east side of my Stack Stone bed has a lot of buds on it! This will be it’s first time to bloom since I planted it 2 years ago. Had to dig out some of the tall white daisies surrounding it (and there are still a few more that need to go!) Looking forward to seeing my ligularia bloom!
Peonies-
The princess of the peonies in my yard is the light pink one in my triangle bed. it has 5 blossoms which seems laughable to some people who have masses of flowers on their well established peonies. But this is one that I transplanted from my “wild bed” where it was struggling to grow, so Im thrilled with its progress.
The other 3 peonies are not doing quite as well, but two of them were just transplanted last fall so the fact that they each had one flower already this spring is really good!
My white peony at the end of my long perennial bed is struggling to grow. Not enough sunshine there and far too wet. A spider wort might be more appropriate there.
Note to Self:
Dig out one sea holly and move the white peony there. Move the hosta squished in the centre of that bed to the peony spot. Should be enough sun at that end of the bed for a hosta.
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| Red painted daises are looking great this year |
Campanulas and Clematises
The blue bellflower campanulas next to the house are looking quite pretty. It adds some colour in the spot where the clematis flowers should be. :(
So far neither of my clematises are getting any buds. I’m disappointed in the Nellie Moser which I had planted a year ago. I thought it would bloom this year.and hopefully it still will. At least it is growing really tall… |
| Cluster bellflower campanula |
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| Bellflower in centre of clematises |
My columbines are full of flowers and looking very pretty. The biggest plants have been here longer that I have, more than 9 years and they are still growing strong! I especially like the pink and yellow flowered colombine, but the yellow one is pretty, too.
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| columbines |
I love my garden!
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