What’s blooming this week? (Late bloomers edition.)
I called this post the Late bloomers edition because these are really photos of what was blooming in my garden last week. These photos sat on my camera while I was away in Chicago. So, without further ado, I give you last week’s bloomers here in my southern Ontario garden.
Lacy white yarrow (Achillea), great for cutting.
My friend Genny sent me some seeds for these poppies a few years ago. They have popped up in various placed in the garden ever since! I think they look like carnations.
“Baja Red” daylily.
Anisse-Hyssop. I’d better get out and deadhead these before it goes to seed and spreads even further! This plant is self-sows like crazy. The bees love it.
What a pretty variety of plants. I’ve never seen white yarrow, nor those pretty poppies that do, indeed, look like carnations! You’ve taken some beautiful photographs.
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@Shady Gardener, I think yarrow is one of the unsung heroes of the garden. It blooms for quite awhile and I love its lacy foliage. A definite old-fashioned favourite of mine.
Gorgeous! The poppies – in case you or some readers don’t know – are called Peony poppies. I had some last year in an amazing salmon colour, but they didn’t come back, alas. Must buy me some more!!!
The daylilies are also astonishing. Nice what a bit of red does to suddenly make them extraordinary and not like the run-of-the-mill orange ones.
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p.s. Save some of the poppy seeds if you can – they’re lovely in baked goods or on top of homemade breads! (peony poppies = papaver somniferum = opium – slash – breadseed poppy)
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