With my Connecticut gardens receiving soaking downpours – pushing three inches of rain since early yesterday morning – I have some soggy additions to the August 2011 Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day. Carol, at May Dreams Gardens hosts this garden-fest on the fifteenth of each month so garden bloggers from all over the world can share what's blooming in their gardens.
Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day, December 15, 2010, the highly popular blog meme hosted at May Dreams Gardens where Carol shares photos and commentary on the current blooms in her gardens and asks others to do the same.
With just half an inch registering on the rain gauge in the last few weeks and minimal watering on this gardener's part, it's a wonder of nature that so many plants are still attractive. Connecticut is officially about 5.5 inches below normal rainfall amounts for the year.
Winter may be just days away, but my gardens still offer a touch of holiday cheer. And, with Mother Nature holding off our snow I was able to capture some season's greetings … in expected and unexpected places.
Spring and early to mid summer are filled with so many blooming plants and shrubs – it's an explosion of color. By late summer, though, many gardeners are searching for some fresh blooms. There are perennial stand-bys – echinacea, Black-eyed Susan, agastache, an occasional lavender or day lily re-bloom, phlox, scabiosa – which, depending on rainfall and temperature extremes, may or may not offer color. And in my gardens I still have annuals - petunias, gazania, verbena, salvia, heliotrope, gerbera, morning glories, moonflowers, cosmos, and impatiens – showing off among coleus, dusty miller, petite licorice, and Tricolor and Marguerite sweet potato vines.
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