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Posted by leafy02 6 Central Kentucky (My Page) on Thu, Jun 11, 09 at 21:36
| This is my first season gardening in my new location, central Kentucky. I've started a border in the backyard that is just for flowers--perennials and a few annuals--for cutting and just enjoying when we're out back.
I'd like bloom all growing season, and I have lots of room to put in more plants, so I'd like to hear what other people have blooming right now, so I can keep an eye out for those while shopping.
I'm only counting plants that weren't purchased already in bloom.
Blooming for me now are:
Gaura
Nepeta
Roses
Daylilies
Balsam--annual started from seed
How about you?
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RE: What's Blooming For You Right Now?
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Let me see,
Coneflowers
Blanket flowers
rudbeckia
Love in a mist
larkspur is everywhere
Shastas
speedwell
salvias
butterfly weed
crinum lilies
penstemon
acanthus mollis is blooming for me for the 1st time
monardas
balloon flowers & short dahlias are starting to bloom
asiatic lilies are still in bloom, but not for much longer
delphiniums, eremurius, & foxgloves are just starting to fade |
RE: What's Blooming For You Right Now?
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- Posted by leafy02 6 Central Kentucky (My Page) on
Sun, Jun 14, 09 at 19:05
| Wow, I didn't know we could grow delphiniums down here--I always thought of them as a New England plant. Good to know. And my asiatic lilies have not even started yet. They were planted by previous homeowners & I'm eager to see what colors they are. I have coneflowers, rudbeckia, coreopsis, veronica and shastas getting ready to bloom, but all were planted this season so I didn't know if they were early or late or what--thank you for posting, it helps! |
RE: What's Blooming For You Right Now?
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| I've heard people say we can't grow delphs here, but I guess I didn't know that when I planted these from seed a few years ago. I only have 4, but they consistently come back. I started some more this spring. |
RE: What's Blooming For You Right Now?
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| In Central Ohio, I'm getting a second flush of rugosa and floribunda roses. Sweet william are still blooming -- and have been for a month it seems! Geum, blue flax, English thyme, Victoria blue salvia, dragon's blood and lidenkanse sedum are wrapping up. Red Rocks penstemon, and some blue penstemon that I started from seed but forgot to write down are blooming. Corepsis, gaillardia, primroses, are getting started.
I've had some Oriental lilies already, and the rest are plumping up. The lavender is going crazy. Nasturtiums and morning glories are starting. Heliotrope and lantana are blooming in the hanging baskets, but I buy those as annuals every year, so they aren't exactly "in season". Best news for me is that my figs have a big healthy crop setting for the second year. There's nothing as decadent as walking out on your front porch and having a sun-warmed fig with breakfast! |
RE: What's Blooming For You Right Now?
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| (ngraham, I soooooo want to trade for your acanthus when you have babies available.) I have these blooming:
rudbeckias
coreopsis
monarda
feverfew
elecampagne (inula)
some evening primroses (others getting ready)
some daylilies (others are budding)
some heuchera
some astilbe
Lamb's ears are starting
some hostas are budding up
Have been blooming for some time, and are still in bloom:
larkpur
spiderwort
Silene
dianthus
chinese forget-me-nots
Mexican primrose
Roses
Verbascum
Gaillardia Already bloomed a couple weeks ago:
Foxgloves
comfrey
valerian --Tina |
RE: What's Blooming For You Right Now?
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- Posted by leafy02 6 Central Kentucky (My Page) on
Fri, Jun 19, 09 at 9:09
| Alison, your lavender has already started? I just planted a "hedge" of lavender this spring and the plants have doubled in size but show no signs of blooming. Mine are Hidcote. I also have a Munstead out back, no bloom yet, and a Spanish that I bought already blooming and it has lots of blooms. Kilngod, rudbeckia? already? Overall, it sounds like KY is about three weeks ahead of my old gardening region in Pennsylvania,and I am now wondering what on earth will still be blooming in August? |
RE: What's Blooming For You Right Now?
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hmmmmm??? Let's see---lots of petunias, impatiens, zinnias, Mt. Fugi morning glories, Snapdragons, verbena, balsaam impatiens, Cardinal vine, hostas, Blackberry lilies, Asiatic lilies, daylilies, assorted rudbeckias, Daisies, monardas, perennial salvias, Knock Out roses, Lavender, veronica, periwinkles, cranesbill, Miss Manners physostegia, butterfly bushes, geraniums, several coreopsis cultivars, achillea, some of the mums are starting and the anemone is budding, heliopsis Lorraine Sunshine and Doubloons, Chinese Delphiniums and the old fashioned tall ones too, hollyhocks, Russian Sage, liatris, violas, coneflowers, clematis vine still blooming some, bacopa, assorted hydrangea bushes, Rose of Sharons, and lobelia. Feel like I am forgetting something but that is most of it. Oh! the squash and mellons are blooming like crazy in the veggie garden! Do you count those?
This has been fun---like counting ones blessings! :) Thanks!
Aunt Lou |
RE: What's Blooming For You Right Now?
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- Posted by leafy02 6 Central Kentucky (My Page) on
Sun, Aug 16, 09 at 22:54
| Well, it's well into August now and I still have a lot blooming. Happily my fears that there would be nothing left in August because of the heat down here haven't come to pass. Blooming today we have: Helenium
Black-Eyed Susans
Shasta Daisies
Coneflowers Magnus, Sunrise, Coconut& Lime
Hydrangeas: Annabelle, Nikko Blue, Peegee
Blanket Flower "Oranges & Lemons"
White Salvia (on it's second, smaller bloom0
Sedum "Stardust"
Roses
Butterfly bush
Obedient Plant
Cleome
Zinnias
Sunflowers
Balsam
and my lavender hedge of Hidcote--in full bloom and covered in bees all day long. Happy! |
RE: What's Blooming For You Right Now?
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I don't have a lot still blooming, August is when most things go down for me. Still have
gaillardia
balloon flowers
phlox
obedient plant
yellow crocosmia
4 o'clocks
evening primrose
dahlias
cannas
hardy hibiscus is beautiful, especially pink swirl dinnerplate
salvias
helenium
Russian sage
roses
a few daylilies
Tina, if I get any seedlings I will let you know. I received this in trade several years ago, it multiplied some but this is the first year it has bloomed. It wasn't really small when I received it either. |
RE: What's Blooming For You Right Now?
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- Posted by raee zone 5-6 OH (My Page) on
Thu, Aug 27, 09 at 21:02
| Kilngod, (Tina), I have a couple acanthus in pots that I do not want. I would be happy to get them to you-send me a PM! I've got another flush on most roses, sweet pea, lavendar, cleome, dragonflower, hosta, zinnia, cosmos, canna, salvia, goldenrod, coreopsis,phlox, coneflower, trumpet vine, japanese anemone, trout lily, ageratum, agastache, joepye weed, astrantia, penstemon, sedum, stokes aster, honeysuckle, a little orange poppy, and little white flower that I don't know the name of! Raee |
RE: What's Blooming For You Right Now?
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| I have tall phlox, purple cone flowers, hydrangea, cosmos, valerian, asters, hostas, roses, Mexican hat, sedums, salvia, coreopsis, penstmon and.... that's all that comes to mind right now! ~~Mimi |
RE: What's Blooming For You Right Now?
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- Posted by raee zone 5-6 OH (My Page) on
Thu, Oct 22, 09 at 20:45
| Well, we've had a nice little spell of indian summer, but all too soon it will be bye-bye to the flowers. Even after the cold last week, I've got: Cosmos (including chocolate--love it--will it survive winter?)
zinnias
russian sage
marigolds
bachelor's buttons (wish they didn't survive quite so well)
sedum
stoke's asters
new england asters
chrysanthemums
phlox
cleome
coreopsis (2 kinds)
Ageratum
geraniums (perennial)
daylily 'happy returns'
all the roses except my once-bloomer
toad lilies
hardy cyclamen
a single tradescantia
a single delphinium
a single crocosmia
a single echinea
a lone bloom on the honeysuckle and my annual pots too |
RE: What's Blooming For You Right Now?
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- Posted by raee zone 5-6 OH (My Page) on
Sat, Nov 7, 09 at 17:22
| Even though we just had several nights in a row of frost below 32F, and it is NOVEMBER, today it is so warm! I still have a few die-hard roses, cosmos, asters, mums, zinnia, stokes asters, coreopsis, tradescantia, dahlia and toad lilies with blooms on them. It is so strange--I thought those frosty nights would do them in for sure. |
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