I start the tour with Embothrium coccineum, blooming way up where the hummingbirds can feel safe enjoying it.
And where I can only enjoy the vague outline of the flowers...
Unless I use the zoom on my camera.
Euphorbia 'Excalibur'
Abutilon 'Victor Reiter'
Lucky shot with the camera hand reaching around behind another flower...
Abutilon Nuabyell
Just keeps on blooming and blooming, and look at all those buds!
Abutilon megapotamicum 'Red'
This one defoliated over the winter, but look at it now!
Amsonia hubrichtii
Over wintered Anigozanthos (yay!) – oh and it's in a container, not in the ground.
Eryngium pandanifolium var. lasseauxii, nearly impossible to get in focus, especially if I wanted to show the flower and the plant.
Brugmansia 'Charles Grimaldi'
Callistemon sieberi, I believe – this one was bought without a label at a "tough love" sale.
Callistemon viridiflorus and Echium wildpretii
Callistemon viridiflorus
Echium wildpretii, at my favorite stage, with the drying-up older blue flowers and the new bright pink.
Echium russicum, the shorter and hardier little sister of E. wildpretii.
Parahebe perfoliata, which just didn't want to photograph well!
Veratrum Californicum, the foliage is way down out of frame, but very cool (images here)
Genista lydia
Ceanothus impressus ‘Victoria’
Cerinthe major 'Purpurascens' – I am thrilled this one has finally started to seed around my garden.
Leptospermum lanigerum
Grevillea ‘Poorinda Leane’ – damn, that's out of focus!
Lomatia tinctoria, a Protea family member from Tasmania.
Magnolia macrophylla...love those huge blooms!
And then they turn brown.
Nicotiana alata ‘Lime Green'
Saxifraga x longifolia
Symphytum × uplandicum 'Axminster Gold' – it's gone a little crazy.
That's my tardy look at what's blooming in my garden this May, thanks to Carol at May Dreams Gardens for hosting!
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So many flowers, so much beauty! thanks.
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Thanks for visiting John!
DeleteWow, soooooo many plants in bloom!!
ReplyDeleteGreat to see Echium russicum. I've never gotten one to survive in my garden, which is odd because Echium wildpretii thrives here...
Maybe it likes the cooler temperatures?
DeleteHow nice to be able to plant a blue Agave with Amsonia! Love the yellow Abutilon and the red buds on the next one are gorgeous. I just planted Genista 'Lydia' not quite across the path from Axminster Gold. Hope I don't come to regret those chartreuse and gold contrasts.
ReplyDeleteThat was a total accident. The Amsonia is loved for the foliage, the blooms weren't even considered.
DeleteYou haven't been talking about your garden too much lately, and then boom! this bounty of blooms! I guess that's what bloom day is all about: a reason and reminder to show us what's going on. Echium stealing the show?
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't until I read your comment (and went back and looked at my recent posts) that I realized I'd been neglecting my garden. I've been so immersed in it lately that I guess I was seeking out other topics to talk about on the blog. Re: the Echium, yes...in the front garden for sure!
DeleteGreat collection of blooms. Love the Ceanothus and the Echium wildpretii.
ReplyDeleteI wish that Ceanothus was a better shape, it's almost been removed a couple of times because it's so ugly...
DeleteIt's hard to beat the exuberance of May flowers and you've got some great ones! (Or at least favorites of mine.) I'm jealous of your Embothrium coccineum flowers. Mine continues to grow but just doesn't seem the least interested in blooming.
ReplyDeleteReally? Has it not ever flowered?
DeleteNever. To make matters worse, I saw some tiny ones in pots at Joy Creek that had blooms on them.
DeleteBetter late than never, and a fab lot as always!
ReplyDeleteThanks guys!
DeleteLooks so good. Love the Embothrium. I wonder if there are dwarf or shrub versions, so you could enjoy the blossoms in a more human scale? Love your Abutilons, too. That A. megapotamicum; what it lacks in petal-power it makes up in elegance. The slight twist of the eggplant-colored buds is as beautiful as the blossom itself to me.
ReplyDeleteThe other Embothrium I've seen planted around town are much shorter, and thus bloom lower to the ground. As Evan points out (below) mine was/is rather crowded and thus there isn't much going on lower on the tree. That said I am still quite happy with it. I had another that never amounted to anything. This one was happy from the moment it went into the ground and started shooting up almost immediately. Plus tall and skinny means it gets to stay no matter how crowded things get.
DeleteWell, tall and skinny is good, especially on the fashion runway! I bet it is a fabulous exclamation point in your densely-planted wonderland.
DeleteSo much in flower and such a range.
ReplyDeleteI kind of surprise myself!
DeleteSo glad I wasn't the only tardy one. The Embothrium is magnificent. Wish they were closer to viewing level, but your zoom photos turned out well.
ReplyDeleteAnd there's always a ladder...
DeleteGreat selection! I love the Abutilon megapotamicum 'Red'. The callistemon and Lomatia are pretty fantastic, too. I think my favorite in this post is the Amsonia, though. The flowers echo the Agave ovatifolia perfectly, and the foliage contrasts beautifully in both color and texture. Now I'm going to be a bit of a snot. You know, that Embothrium might have branched and bloomed lower down if it weren't so crowded...
ReplyDeleteCrowded? In my garden? I have no idea what you're talking about.
DeleteSeriously though, yes. I get that. The Grevillea is finally completely gone (the one that started going away last year...to Cistus) and I took something else there out too (can't remember what) so it is better. The other Grevillea that's on the other side of that bed is so damn floppy (it got a pass last winter with the ice, but after last weekends rain it did it all over again) so it might be going too.
Seriously...you are really about foliage? lol. Lovely bloom day digital walk through your gardens.
ReplyDeleteWhat can I say? The little buggers insist on flowering!
DeleteAbutilon megapotamicum Red.. How beautiful is that?
ReplyDeleteThat Chilean firebush is impressive! I love the Lomatia too but it's the green-flowered Callistemon that had me sighing - my C. pinifoloius still hasn't shown its colors.
ReplyDeleteI was 2 days late, too because there were so many things in bloom. (Not complaining after despairing the dearth of blooms over my first winter in the inland NW. (It's been an adjustment after living in Western WA) Love all of your big, bold, beautiful flowers!
ReplyDeleteYou may need to have Andrew build a viewing platform. Then you can squeeze in lots of tall, skinny things.
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