A Few Blooms For Bloom Day

It's Bloom Day again and there sure is a lot blooming. Too much really to effectively turn it all into a blog post. I'll just do a small sample. If you need more keep scrolling. Plenty Bloom Day worthy pictures here at Outside Clyde. If you need still more, head on over to Bloom Day Central at May Dreams Gardens. From there you can tour the blooming world.

We have Gooseneck Loosestrife, Lysimachia clethroides. Lots of it. Most Loosestrifes are hardy spreaders.

The native Rhododendron maximum have begun to bloom. They bloom much later than the showier hybrids. They also tend to bloom heavy one year and lightly the next. We are in a light bloom year with these native rhododendrons.

'Annabelle' is a naturally occurring cultivar of the native Hydrangea arborescens which was discovered in the wild. I have a lot of the plain specie H. arborescens in the garden becoming.

'Annabelle' and Rudbeckia hirta.

I love it when one of my baby shrubberies blooms for the first time. This is the Bottlebrush Buckeye, Aesculus parviflora. One day it will be a very large shrub.

And I particularly love this grouping. It has an exotic feel to it like it is from another continent. It is composed of  the hybrid Feather Reed Grass and the natives Yucca filamentosa and Liatris. I'll be needing more of all of them.

That's it for Bloom Day. Hope you all enjoyed some nice time in the garden today.