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What's in bloom in your garden this week, May 8th?

18 years ago

Everything!! this is a great week in my garden, one of the few peaks of the year, because I have a lot of crab apples and Kwanzan cherries, which provide a large amount of bloom in volume.

Lilacs (finally)

Crab apples galore

Kwanzan cherries

Redbud

Dogwood (Cornus florida)

apple trees

Cherry trees

Tulips

quite a few daffodils left

Bleeding hearts

Pope's money

grape hyacynth

anemone blanda

violets

Dandelions...

I am probably missing a couple things...

What's in bloom in your garden this week?

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Belle Isis

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hostasz6a
18 years ago
I have all the same things blooming as you do. I love the late season daffodils with the small trumpet with the thin red edging. My daughter wanted those.

My quince still has blossoms. Also the purple flowered azaleas look great. Now we will have the rain to keep things growing. My knockout roses have buds on them.
mad_gallica (z5 Eastern NY)
18 years ago
The early roses have started - R. primula, R. hugonis and Glory of Edzel. Both the daphne lilacs and the regular ones are blooming, and the tree peonies have started. The late daffodils and tulips are blooming. Epimediums, woodland phlox, doronicum, veronica Georgia Blue, some pulmonaria is hanging on. Virginia bluebells which I always forget for some reason, and the hardy geraniums have started. All of the brunnera, and the dwarf bearded iris. Really a lot of stuff.
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isabella__MA
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Let's see ... I always forget something;
violas,
Vinca minor,
Virgina bluebell,
Some daffodils,
an odd red tuulip,
berberis,
girard azalea
Olga Mezit Rhodie,
wood poppy,
Muscari,

Creeping charlie,
dandelions
britgardener
18 years ago
I have

Spiraea Lanceata, absolutely my fave at the mo
Daffs
Corydalis ochroleuca (just started)
Phlox
Perriwinkle
Lamium Shell Pink
Primula japonica Millers Crimson nearly there (I think)
Lilacs
Dogwood

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diggerdee zone 6 CT
17 years ago
This week:

tulips
daffs
creeping phlox
pulmonaria
primroses
fothergilla
lilacs
azalea
primrose denticulata
violets
dicentra
euphorbia (in "color" if not in bloom!)
dwarf bearded iris
sedum
lily of the valley
bluebells

:)
Dee
narcnh
17 years ago
Fially, I can post something to this list. :)

Daffodils
Tulips
Hyacinths
Creeping phlox
Sea thrifts
Rhododendrons
Evergreen azaleas
Crab apple trees
Apple trees
Pear trees
Plum trees
Strawberries
Lilacs
Forsythia
Hardy geraniums
Sedums
Violas
In the lawn:
Naturalized daffodils
Wild Violets
Wild strawberries
Dandelions
Creeping Charlie (ugh)

narcnh
mayalena
17 years ago
Quick question: what is the "Pope's Money" Belle Isis lists? Google turns up predicatably funny search results....

My chromacolor daffs are done, but my misty glen are still going. Some late tulips just opening pink with steaks of green.
Pink flowering dogwood
Yaku rhodie buds are plump, lush, beautiful bright pink
A salmon/flamingo pink azalea which may get the shovel
Lots of muscari
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ginny12
17 years ago
I too wondered about the name "Pope's money". I'm guessing Lunaria annua, most often called money plant or honesty and grown in gardens for centuries. They are in bloom now. The seedhead is like a large silver coin, the main reason people grow this plant, tho the flowers are lovely too--pink or white. It is likely that the name Pope's money is a remnant of the anti-Catholicism once so prevalent in England and New England, tho I'm sure that was not meant here. I think that name must have dropped out of common use a very long time ago, for the obvious reasons.
drippy
17 years ago
Pretty much the same as last week, although I've got a couple of strawberry blooms (my strawberries seem to be petering out this year), and my first WS bloom - alyssum.

My daffs and narcissus are FINALLY budding, and my iris is as well.

I identified last week's pretty blue weed (love that CT Botanical Society website) - it's creeping charlie.
diggingthedirt
17 years ago
Lots of things this week, kind of a waste because it's been raining all week.

From memory: white lilac, viburnum carlessi, carlcephallum etc, kwanzan cherry, wild cherry (don't actually know what the heck this is, it's a pretty volunteer tree), kerria, carolina jessamine, short catmint (nepeta), Camassia, darmera peltata, sweet woodruff, yellow alyssum, strawberry, pasque flower (from fall swap), checkered lily (fritilaria meleagris), bleeding heart, aquilegia, violets, money plant (lunaria), asarum (if you can call those brown things flowers!), old fashioned heuchera, ajuga, sea thrift (armeria maritima), and the thugs, Lily of the valley and vinca minor. I should mention that some of the hellebores are still looking quite fabulous - not too shabby since they have been going since February!

hanging in there: heath, dawn viburnum, jasminium nudiflorum, winter honeysuckle, tulips, daffs, assorted minor bulbs (grape hyacynth, scilla, etc) & forsythia.

Oh, yeah, did I mention dandelions, bedstraw, bittercress, and garlic mustard?

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