January 15 , 2009
From the producer: Bloom Day 24 January 2025
This is my premiere speculation to participate in Garden Blogger ’s Bloom Day , a fabulous construct dream up IndianaMay Dreams blogger Carolin 2007 . On the 15th of every month , garden bloggers from everywhere submit their pictures of what ’s bloom that day . This is the ultimate garden tour !
My out-of-door thermometer read 40 degrees as I conduct these word picture from the east side of Austin , Texas .
It ’s just hang on , but here is ‘ Patrick ’ abutilon in the den bed .
These are not new bloom ( bract ) on the runt plant , but I figure they count since they ’re still there . This is the works I separate last spring .
The container bougainvillea near the shed refuses to give up its bracts , either . In fact , it normally waits until November to perform , just as we ’re about to hit the first icing date . I suppose it gets more sun by then , so it ’s on my leaning of plant to move this leaping .
A few viola are flowering on the plants I last got around to installing during Christmas pause . But they ’re all healthy , so I project if I give this one some publicity , the others will fall in in to make a real show by February 15 .
In front , these lantana obviously enjoy a comfy microclimate , feeding the stalwart butterfly stroke that will find them by this good afternoon .
Under the patio charge card , the cosmetic ( and comestible ) chile peppers are flowering , if you ’ve get opera glasses to see the tiny blooms .
Here ’s the geranium I got at Mayfield Park ’s Garden Symposium a few years ago . That year , coordinator Karen Neenok decorated the utterer ’s platform with stack of them , and insisted I take one home . I love geraniums and I really bonk this color , but I hesitated . I have zero success with them . But passalongs seem to have their own magic , and I ’ve even successfully rooted cuttings from its stalks . ( By the way , for local readers , mark your calendar for April 4 for this year ’s gravid speakers ) .
Next to it are the begonia I pose about 100 years ago . I protect them for mushy reasons , but also because it ’s a bang to see their blossom when rime traverse the garden .
And the lone Cyclamen purpurascens I could n’t hold out after viewers told me they would come back next year . For now , I think I ’ll put it in a pot to ornament the front porch until I can get it some buddies for a seam .
Happy Bloom Day ! Linda
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