Toronto gardening all year round: Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day, September 2009

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day, September 2009

Here's what's blooming in our garden today:

Natives

Amaranthus tuberculatus (rough-fruit amaranth, amarante tuberculée)
Conyza canadensis (horseweed, vergerette du Canada)
Oxalis stricta (wood sorrel, oxalide)
Rudbeckia hirta (black-eyed Susan, rudbeckie dressée)
Solidago canadensis (goldenrod, verge d'or)

Others

Callibrachoa
Campanula rapunculoides (creepy bellflower, campanule fausse raiponce)
Echinacea purpurea (purple coneflower, echinacée pourpre)
Helianthus annuus (sunflower, tournesol)
Heliotropium arborescens 'Fragrant Delight' (heliotrope, héliotrope)
Impatiens walleriana 'Accent Lavender Blue' (impatiens, impatience)
Ipomoea tricolor 'Heavenly Blue'
Lobularia maritima (alyssum, alysson)
Mentha sp. (mint, menthe)
Petunia 'Sanguna Lavender Vein' (shown) and others
Sutera cordata (bacopa, sutera cordée)
Tagetes tenuifolia 'Lulu' (signet marigold, tagète tachée) (shown in photo above with black-eyed Susan)
Tropeolum majus (nasturtium capucine)
Verbena
Viola × wittrockiana 'Delta Pure Rose' (pansy, pensée)
Zinnia elegans 'Polar Bear'

Not bloooms, but still nice

[Photo: Taxus sp.]

Taxus sp. (yew, if)
Vitis sp. (grape, raisin)

Visit May Dreams Gardens to see what's blooming elsewhere for Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day!

4 comments:

Roger LatourSeptember 15, 2009 at 3:59 PM
Amaranthus tuberculatus: amarante tuberculée!

see this adress:
http://www.floraquebeca.qc.ca/flore/flore_genre.htm

from the latin name you get the standard french name (if the plant is present in Québec!)
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Rosemary WaighSeptember 16, 2009 at 9:38 AM
Merci beaucoup, Roger!
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SylvanaSeptember 16, 2009 at 7:19 PM
Heliotope looks so nice, but I'm not sure it would grow here. I just started harvesting my grapes. I already have 10 pints of jam! Much better than the stuff you get in the stores.
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JGHSeptember 17, 2009 at 5:24 AM
Hey you have a lotta nice blooms here! I especially love the heliotrope - and isn't the smell amazing?! The Susans and nasturtium are really pretty, too.

You asked about my "dancing snake" gourd seeds. I got them from either Johnny's or Baker Creek. I'll probably order some more if I see them - I cut up a gourd to taste it and it's a lot like cucumber!
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Useful websites

Geranium robertianum

Andy's Northern Ontario Wildflowers: a lot of them grow down here too! Includes shrubs, moss, fungi, and ferns as well as flowers.
Dave's Garden: a large, active online community. Be sure to check out their PlantFiles, a vast database with valuable information about thousands of different species and their cultivars.
Invasive Exotic Species Ranking for Southern Ontario (PDF): a must read for every gardener in Toronto.
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center: although based in Texas, has a wealth of information about native plants from throughout Canada and the US
North American Native Plant Society: information about native plant gardening, plant sources, seed exchange
Plant Hardiness Data from Natural Resources Canada. Detailed maps for each plant showing where it grows (Canada and the United States only)
PLANTS Database from USDA. Great photos and illustrations about plants, as well as maps (Canada and the US only) showing in which states/provinces each species is found and in which it is native
Planting the Seed (PDF): A Guide to Establishing Prairie and Meadow Communities in Southern Ontario, from Environment Canada.
Plants for a Future: interesting website with information on the uses and care of 7000 plants, as well as information on permaculture and vegan organic gardening.