March blooms
March 15th, 2008 by Brianna
Blooming in the garden this morning, March 15, 2008:
coral honeysuckle:
Scabiosa ‘butterfly blue’ pincushion flower:
purple trailing lantana:
and the last of the apple blossoms:
Other plants blooming in our garden this morning include:
- dandelion
- henbit
- white trailing lantana
- Texas redbud
- purple and white pansies (despite the 90-degree temps here in Austin yesterday)
- red and pink cyclamen
Happy Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day!
Posted in blooms
March 15th, 2008 at 1:48 pm CDT
I never noticed before how similar in shape & form are the blooms of Lantana & Scabiosa. (Maybe because I don’t grow them!) Your honeysuckle is stunning!
I’m enjoying the honeysuckle, too. Thanks for visiting.
-Brianna
March 15th, 2008 at 8:15 pm CDT
I love your photos of the coral honeysuckle. There was a time that I shied away from orange in my garden. But now I’m getting to like it quite a bit.
I didn’t know you could grow apple trees in Austin. Do you get any apples from them?
I inherited both the coral honeysuckle and the apple tree from a previous owner. I don’t think we’re likely to get much fruit from the apple tree–all we saw last year were one or two small green apples, and those were wormy by the time we found them. But I’ve really enjoyed the apple blossoms this spring.
-Brianna
March 16th, 2008 at 1:09 am CDT
As always, great photos. I’m amazed your pansies kept blooming through that 90-degree day.
Thanks, Pam. The pansies are in a pot on the front porch, which is fairly shaded from the afternoon sun, and I watered them well, too. I’m guessing that’s why they’re not totally scorched. (They do look a little worse for the wear, though.)
-Brianna
March 16th, 2008 at 9:21 am CDT
Sigh….we’re still a long way from honeysuckle, let alone scabiosa or lantana. To give you some idea…we have a big Apple Blossom festival here in the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia–at the end of May!
Oh, wow–enjoy your Apple Blossom Festival. That sounds amazing. As you may have guessed from comments by other Tx gardeners, we don’t see too many apple blossoms around here.
-Brianna
March 16th, 2008 at 12:55 pm CDT
I’m so excited to see the scabiosa! I’m growing this from seed.
Ooh, good luck with your scabiosa seedlings, then.
-Brianna
March 16th, 2008 at 3:33 pm CDT
Really lovely shots of that honeysuckle, Brianna! And the *last* of the apple blossoms? Sigh. We’re still waiting for the first. We don’t even have any dandelions yet, and you’ve had them since last month….
Happy you enjoyed the honeysuckle photos, Nan.
Yes, we have dandelions. I know I should pull them up before they go to seed (but I kind of like them).
-Brianna
March 17th, 2008 at 4:30 am CDT
I really like your pictures of your honeysuckle. I’ve shied away from using orange in my garden, but I have so much overgrown orange bulbine in pots that I think it’s a losing battle. I’m really liking my small tangerine crossvine, too, so it’s a slippery slope. And honeysuckle makes me nostalgic since everyone grew it when I lived in Wisconsin.
A kind of honeysuckle used to grow along the fenceline of the house where I grew up, so it’s a little nostalgic for me, too. Don’t have any orange bulbine yet, but I’d like some.
-Brianna
March 17th, 2008 at 9:43 pm CDT
I love your honeysuckle photos - great light and color. How do you keep them under control or do they just have room to grow? The apple blossoms are sweet - my DH was just asking me if we can grow apples here. I guess the answer is not so much! Good luck getting to them before the worms.
So far the honeysuckle is fairly well behaved on its trellis, but it’s only March, huh? We’ll see how it goes…it does also have a lot of room to grow.
I’ve enjoyed the apple blossoms so much that I don’t really care whether we get any fruit (and I don’t think we’re likely to). The apple tree makes decent shade in the summer, too.
-Brianna
March 22nd, 2008 at 10:59 pm CDT
Hi Brianna - you caught the honeysuckle perfectly! It’s one of my favorite plants, too - if it had scent it would be perfect.
An apple tree in Austin does seem surprising!
Annie at the Transplantable Rose
The white honeysuckle that grew along the fence of the house I grew up in had a wonderful scent. I think the coral honeysuckle makes up for it in color. Thanks for visiting, Annie.
-Brianna