Friday, July 16, 2010

Garden Blogger's Bloom Day

The zinnias are blooming, the zinnias are blooming!

I know I'm a little late, but I didn't want to miss two Garden Bloggers' Bloom Days in a row. So without further ado...

Zinnias are one of my favorite flowers. This spring, after I planted my wintersown zinnias, something ate them right up. Dismayed at the idea of not having zinnias this year I direct-sowed the rest of the seeds I had on hand in pots. And they turned out beautifully, so beautifully in fact that I'm putting this on my mental to-do list for next year.

I just love poppies. This is the first time I tried growing the gorgeous venus poppy (winter-sown of course), and I'll definitely do it again. The only thing I long for is to have many, many more of them.

Coneflowers

Ditch lily

daisies

cosmos

Cleome

I'd forgotten about sowing these white coneflowers until they bloomed. I used to not plant white flowers, I thought they blend in too much with my white house, but I've come to love them.

Also blooming in my garden:
  • Balloon flowers
  • Coreopsis
  • Dianthus
  • Gladiolas
  • Lavendar
  • Liatris
  • Snapdragons
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3 comments:

  1. Are your ditch lilies normally double?

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  2. Yes, they always look just like that.

    Does this mean they're not really ditch lilies? They were here before me, so it's entirely possible I guessed wrongly when trying to identify them. :)

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  3. Yes, there is a double-flowering ditch lily!

    Love your blooms, zinnias are a favorite of mine, too.

    Thanks for joining in for bloom day!

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