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Friday, May 20, 2016

Big Yellow Irises and Multicolored Roses

Happy floral Friday and welcome to "this week in my Maryland garden!" I'm always excited when my honey scented yellow irises start blooming.

They smell as nice as they look and we've already had some bees enjoy them too.

This week also marks the start of heavy rose blooming season. This yellow rose has a soft scent.

This is our very first orange rose bloom. I think I planted it last spring but we didn't have any flowers until this week. Better late than never!

This hot pink/red rose is one of about five bushes and they usually put out flowers through frost.

As you can see, it's a great week for Maryland flower gardens. I hope you have some lovely gardens in your area too. Thank you for visiting! May God bless you!

Related posts:
Irises and roses with raindrops: http://lovejoyandpeas.blogspot.com/2015/05/raindrops-on-irises-roses-dahlias-and.html
Yellow irises at Kenilworth: http://lovejoyandpeas.blogspot.com/2012/05/flowers-at-kenilworth-aquatic-gardens.html
2014 big iris photos: http://lovejoyandpeas.blogspot.com/2014/05/yellow-blue-purple-and-white-irises.html

Friday, May 22, 2015

Raindrops on Irises, Roses, Dahlias and Primroses

Happy floral Friday and welcome to "this week in my Maryland garden!" Last week I mentioned that my yellow irises would be blooming soon and, by God's grace, they are now. They're my favorite both because of their color and their lovely scent. I think they look even nicer with raindrops too.

Our rose bushes are full of flowers. I love the heavy bloom when they first start out for the year but appreciate that the roses will continue to produce flowers through fall.

The dahlia tubers that we planted aren't near blooming yet so hubby kindly bought me three smaller dahlias (yellow and sunset shown in this post and burgundy/deep red perhaps in a future post).

The primroses started blooming too. I love their deep pink veins.

This is the sunset dahlia I mentioned above. These flowers are just starting to open.

Thank you for visiting! May God bless you!

Which was your favorite photo from this post? What's blooming in your area this week?

Related posts:
More raindrops on pretty flowers: http://lovejoyandpeas.blogspot.com/2014/05/raindrop-drenched-rose-cosmos.html
More irises: http://lovejoyandpeas.blogspot.com/2014/05/yellow-blue-purple-and-white-irises.html
Mandevilla, petunias & more: http://lovejoyandpeas.blogspot.com/2014/05/mandevilla-roses-dianthus-and-petunias.html

Saturday, May 24, 2014

Yellow, Blue, Purple and White Irises from My Garden

Here's the special iris flower photo post I promised in yesterday's Floral Friday feature. The yellow irises are my favorite (both because of their color and sweet scent) but I like all of our irises.

I think of these as blue irises but my visitors have proclaimed them both purple and violet.

We have just a few of these neat multicolored irises. We have a few that have the reversed colors (primarily purple-blue with hints of white and yellow) but their brief bloom time passed without a photo this year.

The white irises are the first to bloom in my Maryland garden. This picture was taken on May 9th but the rest were taken this week.

Hope you enjoyed this little photo tour of my irises. What is your favorite color iris?

Praise God, the creator of all that lives, including beautiful flowers. May He bless and keep you, dear friends!

Related posts:
Spring flowers (includes irises): http://lovejoyandpeas.blogspot.com/2012/03/fresh-spring-flowers-this-week-in-my.html
Blue iris flowers: http://lovejoyandpeas.blogspot.com/2012/04/first-blue-irises-of-2012.html
Aquatic Irises: http://lovejoyandpeas.blogspot.com/2012/05/flowers-at-kenilworth-aquatic-gardens.html

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Multicolored Blooms: This Week in My Maryland Garden

If you follow my blog you know I love flowers. I just snapped this rose photo minutes before this blog post. It's such a joy to view God's handiwork in the garden!

This week our honeysuckle vines started blooming. Love the sweet fragrance of honeysuckle!

This week our yellow irises started blooming too. Most of our irises don't have a scent that we can detect but the yellow ones smell sweet and delicious, kind of like honey. Here you can see a ladybug perched on the yellow petals. I think I took this photo and the ones below yesterday afternoon.

My husband planted three flats of marigolds in the front yard and it's brightened things up quite a bit. Should look even nicer once they fill out. Soon the zinnia seedlings will join them and, God willing, the bed closest to the street will be full again.

I'm not sure if this plant just hadn't bloomed before (it was previously buried in a clump of grass, courtesy of previous residents) or if it's one of our regular blue irises that mutated to include the nice white variegation. Either way, it was a nice surprise.

What's growing in your garden? Are there any plants you're especially fond of or looking forward to seeing bloom?

Our oldest echinacea (purple cone flower) and Stella d'Oro day lily both have buds so hopefully I'll have flower pictures from those plants to show you next week. Until then, may your heart be filled with joy and may the God of all creation be with you!

Monday, May 7, 2012

Flowers at Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens

Wild Rose: Photograph by Phyllis Wheeler

As promised in my original post about our trip to Kenilworth Park & Aquatic Gardens, here are the flower photographs. This first image (above) is likely a wild rose. They were growing abundantly throughout the nature trail.

Variegated Iris: Photograph by Phyllis Wheeler

Most of the irises at Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens were bright yellow, like the one pictured below but the white and yellow variegated iris above caught my eye. The yellow irises were growing in large clumps all over the aquatic gardens and you could see them here and there along the nature trail.

Yellow Iris: Photograph by Phyllis Wheeler

You can see some more yellow irises in the first of the goose family photos posted here.

Water Lily: Photograph by Ben Wheeler

White water lilies abounded in the Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens. According to a park flyer the more exotic water lilies will start blooming next month followed by the lotus blooms. Which of the flower photos did you like best? Have you ever been to an aquatic garden?

May God bless you!