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

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

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

Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day, August 2009

In August, the garden is overflowing with flowers! This Bloom Day most of my photos came out too badly to post; I find the current bright bright sunlight difficult to photograph in. I've linked to previous posts of these flowers where possible. In any case this month's Bloom Day is a lot like last month's, but the daylilies, Venus flytrap, butterfly weed, and liatris have gone, and the rose of Sharon has just started doing her thing.

• Acalypha rhomboidea (three-seed mercury, ricinelle rhomboïde)
• Amaranthus tuberculatus (rough-fruit amaranth, je ne peux pas trouver le nom commun en français)
• Antirrhinum majus (snapdragon, gueule de loup
• Calibrachoa (million bells)
• Campanula rapunculoides (creepycreeping bellflower, campanule fausse raiponce) (almost done blooming)
• Conyza canadensis (horseweed, vergerette du Canada)
• Dianthus chinensis 'Double Gaiety Mix' (China pinks, œillet de Chine)
• Echinacea purpurea (purple coneflower, echinacée pourpre)
• Erigeron annuus (eastern daisy fleabane, érig&eaucte;ron annuelle) (mostly done blooming)
• Fuchsia
• Helianthus annuus (sunflower, tournesol)
• Heliotropium arborescens (heliotrope, héliotrope du Pérou)
• Hibiscus syriacus (rose of Sharon, althéa)
• Hosta (almost done blooming)
• Impatiens walleriana 'Accent Lavender Blue'
• Lathyrus odoratus 'Royal Family Mix'
• Lilium 'Dot Com'
• Lobularia maritima (alyssum, alysson)
• Mentha sp. (mint, menthe)
• Monarda didyma 'Jacob Cline' (almost done blooming)
• Myosotis sp. (forget-me-not, souvenez-vous-de-moi) (almost done blooming)
• Nepeta cataria (catnip, cataire) (just getting started)
• Nicotiana 'Perfume Mix' (flowering tobacco, tabac d'ornement)
• Oxalis stricta (wood sorrel, oxalide)
• Petunia 'Cascadia Mystic Purple' (shown), 'Sanguna Lavender Vein', 'Famous New White', and unknown cultivars in light pink, bright pink, and dark purple
• Polygonum lapathifolium (pale smartweed, renouée à feuilles de patience)
• Primula vulgaris (primrose, primevère)
• Reseda odorata 'Mignon's Finest Mix'
• Rudbeckia hirta
• Solanum ptycanthum
• Solidago canadensis (Canada goldenrod, verge d'or du Canada (just getting started)
• Tagetes tenuifolia 'Lulu'
• Tropaeolum majus 'Jewel Mix' (nasturtium, capucine)
• Viola x wittrockiana 'Delta Pure Rose'
• Zinnia elegans 'Polar Bear'

Check out what's blooming in other gardens this Bloom Day! And thanks to Carol of May Dreams Gardens for hosting.

Tropeolum majus: flowers

Tropeolum majus, known in English as nasturtium and in French as capucine is a fast growing annual native to the Andes with flowers in orange, yellow, red, or cream. The distinctive parasol-shaped leaves have a spicy flavour; the flowers are edible as well. Because the whole plant is edible, the seeds are large and easy to handle, and the plants grow rapidly and are undemanding (they prefer poor soil), nasturtium is a good first plant for children and other beginning gardeners. Nasturtiums don't like being transplanted, so sow them directly in the garden after the last frost.