Comments on: Bloom Day, Wet December Straggler Edition

By: Carol

Carol — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:16:04 +0000

I especially love your Trichostema lanatum… your photos and the blooms. Lovely bloom day post! Carol

By: ryan

ryan — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:03:34 +0000

TM - Happy bloom day back. I am very much looking forward to the days getting longer.
NJ - I figure it can’t hurt to have a fragrant plant next to the the trash cans. We’re coastal, so most plants can handle our comparatively mild temperature swings.
S - You’re right. Sometimes I’m not as appreciative of the flowers when conditions are wet, but the camera sure likes them.
CM - Thanks. Our spathacea is on the east side of a slope underneath a walnut and it gets some supplemental water. We’ve grown them in couple of other gardens. They seem to look best with loose soil, part shade, and a bit of summer water, but we haven’t yet ever had them look great, so I’m still trying to figure the plant out. They don’t seem to like hot inland sun, so maybe they get too much direct sun in the summer at your place under the oaks. But, still a plant I’m trying to figure out.

By: Country Mouse

Country Mouse — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:01:31 +0000

I’m glad I checked back to May Dreams - Your first picture is just lovely - the type of thing to submit to that photo competition over on GGW. I went out the day after bloom day and took more pictures - we also have the underappreciated rosemary you show and the bees just adore it. Our salvia spathacea is blooming now too , just a few spikes - and in one area it is really spreading like I want it to - unfortunately in the area I really want it to spread, it isn’t. Spreading in an area that is shadier - total shade in the afternoon, wetter - entrance bed that gets more water - and better soil - had to import soil because that area was basically builder’s rubble and compacted subsoil. So I’m betting that tihs salvia would do well for me on our north facing slopes where there is a lot of humus from leaf litter - not as a dry shade plant for south facing slopes under oaks, where I was hoping it would take! One day I’ll try woolly blue curls!

By: Susie

Susie — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:50:08 +0000

Happy late bloom day….everything looks pretty even with drops of rain on it. Maybe I should say especially with drops of rain. Thankful for any rain, so even if it knocks some curls off there will be more to come!

By: Nell Jean

Nell Jean — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:28:59 +0000

Every day is Bloom Day. Nice presentation. My rosemary chooses not to bloom, but it is fragrant when I brush against it, so it is forgiven.

I don’t know about your climate, but we have to have wet and warm, or cold and dry, alternating. Poor plants hardly know what to do.

By: Town Mouse

Town Mouse — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:08:39 +0000

Happy bloom day! That’s a pretty impressive list you have. And soon the days will get longer again…