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f year we wait impatiently for spring as i walked through the garden this morning though i saw promises of spring first of all the garden is now mostly bare ground with patches of snow rather than mostly snow covered with patches of bare ground and i could see some new green growth emerging from that bare ground like these new leaves on lady s mantle alchemilla mollis by the back door in the heat trap by the foundation on the southeast side of the house i could not only see clumps of crocus foliage but even some flower buds on the colder shadier side slope there is no sign yet of the hundreds of crocus bulbs i planted in autumn but in the back garden i found hyacinths poking up through the soil and on the sunny front slope more than half the thirty clumps of daffodils have appeared meanwhile as i wait for those first garden flowers to declare the arrival of spring the potted amaryllis hippeastrum bulbs in my living room plant window are providing a welcome burst of floral joy for still winter 2 comments from houseplants maine living seasons peak season july 19 2025 tags daylilies flower beds hemerocallis summer flowers today marked the peak of daylily season in my garden the daylily bloom that is my favorite part of the garden year began with a bang three weeks ago when three different varieties opened their first flowers during the following week the display slowly grew with nine more varieties beginning to flower then as happens every year the daylily bloom accelerated with an average of three varieties a day beginning to flower during the next week this past week brought an explosion of daylilies with 5 10 new varieties opening their first flowers each day so that by today more than sixty were blooming the daylilies are flowering prolifically this year perhaps the result of a very rainy may which may have provided needed moisture at a critical point in flower formation i ll try to remember this next year if i m feeling grumpy about seemingly endless days of rain in spring one plant i ve been particularly happy to see loaded with flowers is margaret seawright which seemed to be barely hanging on in recent years with its 4 flowers this is not the most showy daylily in my garden but its story makes it special when daylily breeder bob seawright s mother was dying he asked her if she would like to choose one of the new seedlings from his breeding program to be named after her and this is the one she chose i love the variations in my daylilies they range in size from the diminutive 3 cinnamon dew to the showy 9 outrageous ramona and then there are the colors all the daylilies in the blue and yellow border have yellow blooms those along the walkway to the patio are all in shades of pink from pale to strong on the front slope i ve indulged a love of hot colors with oranges reds and purples many of my daylilies especially the yellow ones are fragrant this big yellow one that just began blooming by the steps up from the driveway fills the air with a heady vanilla scent although each daylily flower blooms for only a day a given plant can open flowers continuously for several weeks and because different varieties have different bloom periods the earliest bloomers in my garden begin flowering in june while the latest ones don t finish until october there are still more than two dozen daylily varieties in my garden that have not yet begun to flower but today three of the early bloomers orange prelude olallie maggie bromell and happy returns opened their last flowers several others are nearing the end of their bloom period we have reached that bittersweet tipping point in the daylily season when even as some varieties open their first flowers each day others will open their last 7 comments from plants seasons winter into spring march 24 2025 tags alchemilla mollis cold climate crocus fragaria virginiana rhododendron i think of march in maine as a winter month but one that holds the promise of spring the longer days and higher sun angle of march have brought many days with temperatures above freezing most of february s snow has melted from the garden and along the dirt road leading to my house the ground has thawed and the mud has drained looking out my study window i can see buds on the forsythia shrubs this season is perhaps best described by the phrase that the pianist george winston used for the title of one of his record albums winter into spring winter into spring is a fickle two steps forward one step back time of year two days ago i was outside in sunshine and mild spring air pruning spireas yesterday was sunny and cold with blustery march winds today it is snowing nevertheless i have resumed my habit of going out once a day and walking through the garden to see what is happening i can see new green foliage on wild strawberries fragaria virginiana and heuchera x raspberry regal i see tiny pleated leaves of alchemilla mollis lady s mantle peeking out from under garden debris and beside the foundation on the south side of the house a single crocus crocus vernus pickwick is blooming the first flower of spring in my garden 5 comments from garden maine living seasons soft colors sweet mood gbbd june 2024 june 17 2024 tags alchemilla mollis allium amsonia baptisia australis flower beds geranium hardy geranium heuchera peonies roses siberian iris tradescantia june when the early summer display features soft colors of pink blue and violet that create a sweet mood is one of my favorite times in the garden the flowers currently in bloom include some that are white like tradescantia virginiana danielle iris sibirica white swirl and several varieties of peonies others are almost white but are touched with a hint of color like the barely blue flowers of amsonia tabernaemontana the blossoms of kalmia latifolia mountain laurel hoffman s pink and the barely pink blooms of geranium x cantabrigiense biokovo other blooms are more definitively colored like the lavender balls of allium x globemaster the pink spires of heuchera x raspberry regal pink peonies like monsieur jules elie the chartreuse flowers of lady s mantle alchemilla mollis and all the blue flowers of siberian irises tradescantia virginiana baptisia australis and geranium x brookside a few flowers here and there like geranium sanguineum and rose hansa are blooming in hot magenta hues for me one of the delights of the early summer garden is all the varieties of geranium also known as cranesbill in bloom several of my flower beds are currently edged with the frothy flowers of the groundcover geranium x cantabrigiense i have this in both the pink tinged biokovo and a much more strongly colored cultivar karmina these flowers put on a big show in early summer and are then done for the year although their foliage remains attractive throughout the garden season geranium sanguineum also blooms in early summer only other geraniums that begin to bloom in june are long blooming perennials that will continue to flower through the summer these include geranium x oxonianum a fertile hybrid that happily seeds itself around in the garden and the blue cultivars geranium x brookside and geranium x rozanne these all grow long floriferous arms that drape themselves over other plants in a charming mingling of flowers with so many flowers in bloom the garden is also alive with pollinators these include several species of butterflies a hummingbird who visits daily to feed from the spikes of heuchera x raspberry regal and several species of bees the bumblebees visiting the flowers of geranium biokovo are so enormous that the flowers bend down to the ground under their weight the blooms of early summer arrived especially early this year the peonies began to open during the first week of june the earliest i ever remember them doing so in mid june siberian irises are already well past their peak although a few are still in flower but even as the flowers of early summer bloom and fade i am seeing more and more buds each day on the daylilies hemerocallis which are the iconic flowers of high summer in my garden garden bloggers bloom day is a monthly celebration of flowers hosted by carol michel at may dreams gardens visit her website to see the glories of june in many gardens 5 comments from gbbd seasons older entries welcome to my garden i am jean potuchek a professional sociologist retired college professor and amateur gardener who loves flowering perennials i garden in east poland maine usda zone 5a 4b some posts also focus on a small garden i kept in gettysburg pennsylvania usda zone 6b where i used to teach and live part time since my retirement i ve been deepening my horticultural knowledge by becoming certified as a master gardener volunteer and by earning a certificate in native plants and ecological horticulture from the coastal maine botanical gardens in this blog i draw on my gardening experience as i reflect on my own garden make observations about gardens i visit and review garden books and garden 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