Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day - October 2010

All Andrew's Plants has moved to AllAndrewsPlants.wordpress.com

You can find this post here on my new site for the full post and to leave comments.

A few more things still flowering outside this fall Bloom Day. This may be the last outdoor Bloom Day until next March, but that will depend entirely on the weather. If it's like last year I may still have some plants flowering in mid-November but we've already had a few light frosts. We'll have to see how that goes though.

But this month... There's quite a bit that's still going. Sure there's a lot the same as I had flowering in September but it's still nice to have this much still going in the garden.



My Pink Turtlehead (Chelone obliqua) is still going strong. I'd never even noticed the way it branches and flowers lower on the stems. I wouldn't have noticed either but I was chopping it back to make room for my Rhododendron. By the time the main flower stalk has finished though so have most of the side shoots. I think it's more "Oh that's interesting" than anything practical. The flowers are actually kind of ugly strange. There's not that much else that's as reliable for fall flowers though and the leaves are actually a very nice dark glossy green.


This little Pansy seedling has popped up on my patio and (other than being eaten by earwigs) is doing well. Of particular note is that this seedling is identical to its parent. I need to try to collect some seeds from it for next spring.


This volunteer Morning Glory comes from my neighbours yard and is growing through and around my Honeysuckle. The Honeysuckle's still flowering with lots of buds to open, and I know there's at least one open today (I can smell it) but couldn't see it for a picture today. It's nice though because by the time this has started to flower the Honeysuckle is mostly finished with only the odd bloom here and there.


And because I love it so much here's my Red Rose again, this time with the seeds of my Miscanthus 'Little Kitten' - the smallest Miscanthus I've ever heard of.

Also still flowering in my garden but not pictured is my Toadlily (Tricyrtis hirta 'Tojen', Sedum 'Lynda Windsor', there's one or two flowers on both my Clematis 'Rebecca' and my Hall's Honeysuckle and just missing Bloom Day are my Mystery Aloe (x Haworthia?) and Echeveria, both of which have moved inside the house for the winter. Plenty of African Violets and the like too, but maybe we'll be looking at more of those next month?

Viola sororia

All Andrew's Plants has moved to AllAndrewsPlants.wordpress.com

You can find this post here on my new site for the full post and to leave comments.


Viola sororia is a weed that I have given up against. It has won and I have lost.

It's pretty enough but it's aggressive and smothers smaller plants. I will have to keep pulling it away from my Trilliums because otherwise it will smother them too.

Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day, April 2010

All Andrew's Plants has moved to AllAndrewsPlants.wordpress.com

You can find this post here on my new site for the full post and to leave comments.

Honestly I would have expected a little more for April's Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day this month. It was apparently not meant to be.



Daffodils. You've seen this picture here before. You've seen Daffodils before. Nothing overly exciting here.

There are many things still flowering that were flowering in March and actually everything I posted in February is either still flowering or is flowering again.



Pansy. I've got the tag somewhere still with the name. Not overly important though I'd say. I do like this one though and it will probably end up in my summer containers too.

My Paphiopedilum and both Phalaenopsis and that have been flowering for the past two months have not changed even a little bit. Each and every flower is still holding on, still looking as perfect as they did when they had just opened.

I've fallen a little bit out of love with Saintpaulia 'Ma's Crime Scene.' The flowers are a fantastic colour and the leaves are perfect but they flowers are thick, and heavy. Individual flowers last over three weeks but they are not held strongly over the plant and that ruins the overall effect.



Another Pansy.

Daffodils and Pansies are all that are blooming outside. Crocus came and went, too late for March, too early for April. My Euphorbia myrsinites is so close to flowering, some stems are just starting to open up at the tips but it will likely be another week before it's putting on its best show. By May there should be a few more things, a very large patch of Dwarf Iris that will be shrinking this summer should be flowering. Can't say there will actually be too much more than that, I think I've got my garden geared towards a strong June that doesn't let up until snow falls rather than have too much space devoted to spring plants.