Online Confessional: 2010

What's Blooming:

June 24: white asters (fleabane), delphiniums, astilbes, campanula blue clips, more echinaceas, rudbeckias starting in prairie, TONS of asclepias in prairie (where did it come from?!?) Harvested 3 gallon bags of salad greens, a pan fill of small to medium sized beets (chopped the greens for salad), sno peas. Sprinkled datura and zinnia seeds throughout gardens-- planted a blueberry bush in strawberry patch (strawberries almost done! We got about 15 # total of strawberries!)
June 16: Alaskan daisies, Jackmanii Clematis, sweet peas. Planted 3 lupines, 3 yarrow, 3 columbine, and a columbine today.
June 7: coreopsis, gaillardia, chicory, oenothera, crown vetch, one echinacea in prairie opened, tritoma (knifofia?) opening, peas are forming, rose campion starting, calla lilies fully open
June 4: pea blossoms bloomed a few days ago, peonies about done (thanks to the rain), lupines bloomed a week ago, bell flowers opened, day lilies (stella d'oro) opened
May 31: penstemon opened sometime last week, peonies opened fully today, filipendula opening, all flowers from 5/29 still blooming; seedlings planted 5/24 all sprouted
May 29: clematis, nepeta, dicendra, penstemon, digitalis, daisy things, irises, heucheria, yarrow, geranium, thrift, dianthus, flax (coreopsis forming blooms!), strawberries turning red!
May 23: Nepeta just opening, dicendra, new anemones, lilacs are done, irises opened yesterday, yarrow, veronica (ugly!), chives. Some clematis, dianthus, heucheria (last week), thrift, geranium, flax(last week) columbine. Salad greens/baby spinach ready to harvest
May 11: Crabtrees! Dicendra, lilacs just starting, strawberries!
April 24: tulips, muscari,pulmonaria, anemones
April 15: Daffodils are coming back, and the later blooming varities are getting started Tulips are coming up, but I hope they're at least a couple weeks away Anemones are blooming (blanda bulbs and multifida Anabella plants) Scilla, arabis Alpina Snocap
March 30: Daffodils