Bloom Day

April 15, 2008 This Garden Bloggers Bloom Day, it’s all about the roses. Naturally, all but one (‘Carefree Beauty’) refused to bloom for the Spring Fling on the 5th, but they’re rockin’ now. ‘Belinda’s Dream,’ my favorite, looks dreamy in the morning light. It leans over the garden fence out ...

April 15, 2008 This Garden Bloggers Bloom Day, it’s all about the roses. Naturally, all but one (‘Carefree Beauty’) refused to bloom for the Spring Fling on the 5th, but they’re rockin’ now. ‘Belinda’s Dream,’ my favorite, looks dreamy in the morning light. It leans over the garden fence out ...

February 15, 2008 Is it spring in Austin? After spending all morning cutting back the perennials and really seeing—plus smelling and hearing—my garden, I say Yes! It’s spring. Join me for a quick look around this Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day. How do I know it’s spring? Well, the spiderworts are ...

February 15, 2008 Is it spring in Austin? After spending all morning cutting back the perennials and really seeing—plus smelling and hearing—my garden, I say Yes! It’s spring. Join me for a quick look around this Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day. How do I know it’s spring? Well, the spiderworts are ...

January 15, 2008 ‘Little John’ bottlebrush (Callistemon viminalis ) Bloom Day January finds my garden short on flowers. I looked high and low for this handful of posies. Aside from several dozen frost-browned roses, this is it. While flowers are few, the garden is still pretty green (or, here and ...

January 15, 2008 ‘Little John’ bottlebrush (Callistemon viminalis ) Bloom Day January finds my garden short on flowers. I looked high and low for this handful of posies. Aside from several dozen frost-browned roses, this is it. While flowers are few, the garden is still pretty green (or, here and ...

December 14, 2007 ‘Belinda’s Dream’ “God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December,” wrote J. M. Barrie. Here in Austin, December is still very much autumn, and you need not rely on memory to enjoy roses. My shrub roses take a star turn in December ...

December 14, 2007 ‘Belinda’s Dream’ “God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December,” wrote J. M. Barrie. Here in Austin, December is still very much autumn, and you need not rely on memory to enjoy roses. My shrub roses take a star turn in December ...

November 14, 2007 ‘The Fairy’ rose Warm, humid air from the Gulf of Mexico keeps Austin feeling not-quite-fallish. Despite the warm temperatures, I see fall reflected in the garden, although it may not appear so to more-northern gardeners. The ornamental grasses wave their feathery, tan seedheads in the breeze, and ...

November 14, 2007 ‘The Fairy’ rose Warm, humid air from the Gulf of Mexico keeps Austin feeling not-quite-fallish. Despite the warm temperatures, I see fall reflected in the garden, although it may not appear so to more-northern gardeners. The ornamental grasses wave their feathery, tan seedheads in the breeze, and ...

October 15, 2007 ‘Little John’ dwarf bottlebrush (Callistemon viminalis ‘Little John’) October Bloom Day in Austin should be quite lovely. But my garden peaked early this year, and I spent yesterday cutting back my salvias and roses to try to stimulate one more good bloom cycle this fall—completely forgetting about ...

October 15, 2007 ‘Little John’ dwarf bottlebrush (Callistemon viminalis ‘Little John’) October Bloom Day in Austin should be quite lovely. But my garden peaked early this year, and I spent yesterday cutting back my salvias and roses to try to stimulate one more good bloom cycle this fall—completely forgetting about ...

September 14, 2007 Sweet Autumn clematis Our second spring has arrived in Austin, and the garden is abloom. This Bloom Day, salvias are the stars of the garden, but plenty of other perennials and vines are strutting their stuff too. Bees and butterflies, including a few monarchs early on the ...

September 14, 2007 Sweet Autumn clematis Our second spring has arrived in Austin, and the garden is abloom. This Bloom Day, salvias are the stars of the garden, but plenty of other perennials and vines are strutting their stuff too. Bees and butterflies, including a few monarchs early on the ...

August 16, 2007 Mexican oregano and white narrowleaf zinnia Yesterday I spent 8 hours in the car, driving home from a visit to my mom’s, so I missed Bloom Day. The temperature in Tulsa soared over 100 every day, but Mom still had a number of plants blooming, including cleome, ...

August 16, 2007 Mexican oregano and white narrowleaf zinnia Yesterday I spent 8 hours in the car, driving home from a visit to my mom’s, so I missed Bloom Day. The temperature in Tulsa soared over 100 every day, but Mom still had a number of plants blooming, including cleome, ...