March Bloom Day
Miners Lettuce with Geranium Bill Wallis
It’s a wet March bloom day, with the plants looking a bit storm addled. Our first poppy of the year opened on Sunday, but now it’s curled back up, waiting for the sun. The Sisyrinchiums, Geranium ‘Bill Wallis,’ and a few other bloomers are also hunkered down with their petals closed up. A lot of plants have buds and look like they are waiting for the next sunny day to open everything.
Species Tulip, Tulipa saxatilis
Hardenbergia
Hellebore
Freesia
Ninebark, Physocarpus capitatus
As always, my thanks to Carol at MayDreamsGardensfor hosting bloom day. Click over to see what over a hundred other bloggers have blooming in their gardens today.
I thought this might be early for the ninebark and late for our Hardenbergia, but looking back at last March’s bloom day, the garden seems to be on a remarkably similar schedule. The bloom list for this year is below.
Reasonably full bloom:
Crocosmia
Geranium ‘Bill Wallis’
Hardenbergia
Fuchsia excorticata
Tulipa saxitilis
Narcissus (some are finished already)
Heuchera maxima
Sidalcea malviflora (1 of 3 plants in full bloom)
Ceanothus ‘Concha’
Galvezia speciosa
Creeping Rosemary
Freesia
Hellebore
Miner’s Lettuce
Fragaria vesca
Arugala
Fava Beans (planted a month earlier this year)
Light Bloom:
Calendula
Sisyrinchium bellum
Dark Purple Bearded Iris
Fragaria chiloensis
Salvia mellifera “Green Carpet”
Ceanothus Carmel Creeper
Coastal California Poppy (1 bloom so far)
Ribes viburnifolium
Ribes ‘White Icicle’ (finishing)
Ribes sanguineum (starting up)
Fuchsia ‘Gartenmeister Bonstadt’
Orange Canna
Heuchera hybrid
Culinary Rosemary
Dicentra formosa (1 cluster opening)
Tellima grandiflora (a few flowers opened, but mostly buds)
Salvia mellifera (a few flowers opened, but mostly buds)
Oxalis oregana (3 flowers)
Coreopsis gigantea (some old flowers and new buds)
Blueberries
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March 15th, 2011 at 6:04 pm
Great blooms! I’m a little envious of your blooming now list 🙂 It was a struggle to find flowers in our garden this month.
March 15th, 2011 at 6:40 pm
I really like that first picture of the miner’s lettuce with geraniums.
March 15th, 2011 at 9:05 pm
We’re dry down here but I’m glad you’re getting some moisture. Down here we’re definitely a little ahead of you. Some of the plants on your list as in bud are nearly done with their season down here, others are looking great and peaking. I’ll second Gayle’s comments about the miner’s lettuce with the geraniums–The relative huge scale of the miner’s lettuce looks really cool with the much more delicate geranium.
March 15th, 2011 at 10:02 pm
Megan Don’t be fooled by the length of the list, a lot of those plants have very few flowers. A much longer list would be the plants that need cutting back, cleaning up, or other maintenance.
Gayle I like both of those plants a lot and I’m glad we let them mix into the vegetable garden.
James Your garden generally seems a month or a month and a half ahead. You have plants at peak that I would be surprised to see in full bloom up here.
March 16th, 2011 at 8:02 am
Amazing, that list. I know most of those plants, and in my shady paradise they’re not even budding out. Thanks for the pictures, and happy bloom day!
March 16th, 2011 at 9:17 pm
I love the pictures. And that bloom list is so big.
March 16th, 2011 at 10:08 pm
That geranium is quite invasive here but I love it.
Glad to meet you through GBBD.
Greetings from Belgium !
March 17th, 2011 at 9:24 am
hardenbergia is such a fantastic plant… they grow so well and flower all the time. love it.
March 17th, 2011 at 8:00 pm
That’s a wonderful GBBD post, with riotous colors!
March 17th, 2011 at 10:47 pm
Thanks everyone. The list is more impressive than the actual flowers, but it is interesting to make the record of what’s blooming.