Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day May
Well, for the first time, I’ve managed to catch a Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day. And fittingly enough, I managed to catch the May one! Happy Mothers Day at that, y’all.
The marigolds have been blooming profusely for a month or more now, and some of them seem to be doing their jobs while others seem to be getting eaten alive by something.
Dwarf Marigold
The first of the sweetpeas have bloomed, with the rest looking like they’ll follow at any point. The snapdragons are also blooming. Both are gorgeous and have details that a camera can’t even capture.
Sweetpeas Blooming
The Zinnias I planted in the front yard (all spaced out, unfortunately — I didn’t realize that these were the single stalk kind, and I’m more familiar with the bunching types) are starting to bloom vividly… I can’t wait to grow them properly next year for a real splash of color.
Front Yard Zinnias
And since I’m primarily a vegetable gardener, I have to show off the blooms on my Black Krim heirloom tomato. Look at the structure and definition on this plant!
Black Krim
If the size of the blooms are any indication, this thing’s going to produce some champion tomatoes!
Hiya Karl,
Your first, my last. Probably. After a whole year I must have shown it all I reckon. Until we move house/garden one day :-)
Do your marigolds keep the whitefly away from neighbouring plants?
jo
Jo, we’ve got so many bugs here that I must confess that I wouldn’t know a whitefly if it bit me on the nose.
I dunno, Jo, I don’t think you can ever show everything in a garden. I don’t even post a quarter of the pictures I take or the things I grow. But I’m more of a “Hmn, I’ll grow anything once” type of gardener than I am a “big picture” gardener. What’s the fun of having everything set so that you’ve seen or shown it all? Rip up part of the lawn and plant some more!
Heh heh, I posted pics of my veggie garden’s flowers too, although they were more on the way out than on the way in like your spiffy tomato. I love those zinnias, I like to intersperse them with shorter annuals or bushy stuff like cosmos. Are these the cut-and-come-again type? That might make them bush up a bit, if they are and you behead a few. Welcome to Bloom Day, isn’t it fun?!
Karl, how fun to meet a fellow Central Texan, albeit in Aggieland. I look forward to seeing what’s up in your neck of the woods and hearing about the dogs.
Love the veggie pics! I’m also a “yankee in the south.” I’m from Indiana, but live in North Carolina now. My tomatoes are blooming. It seems like kind of a miracle that we are going to have our own tomatoes soon!