what's blooming now 2014

[turttle]

Originally Posted by rockerBOO

There's something about the change of perspective from walking around and sitting in it, with a bench.

Cup Plant
Smooth Goldenrod. This plant is the goldenrod that might want to take over my yard but I really like it.
Wild Senna, always enjoyable. One of the bigger plants last year in the rain garden started really late (I think from the shade from the sedge) and is barely fitting. These other ones are more in the open and more sun.

Oooh! Can I have some wild senna seeds when they go to seed? I have wanted to plant it but haven't found a good source. What an awesome plant!

[rockerBOO]

Of course! Just message me your details and I will send when they are ready.


Mountain Mint


Spotted Joe-Pye


More Wild Senna

[linrose]

I just noticed partridge pea blooming in the field today. Volunteer cupplant is blooming too after spreading from the prairie bed. Cut leaf coneflower is blooming on the woods edge.

[dapjwy]

Originally Posted by wildwatcher

...I like these non-natives, highly invasive little guys. They don't really do much, the blue flower petals make a blue dye, the deer happily eat them...but they do cover the ground quickly!Attachment 40732

Mouse ears?! I call it Asiatic dayflower. I've got a patch that I'm trying to get rid of--no easy task.

I've read that there is a native dayflower with 3 petals...but I've yet to encounter it.

[rockerBOO]

Originally Posted by linrose

I just noticed partridge pea blooming in the field today. Volunteer cupplant is blooming too after spreading from the prairie bed. Cut leaf coneflower is blooming on the woods edge.

Just saw my parents partridge pea blooming. I put the seeds out in random places in their garden.

In the last picture, on the top left. Is that milkweed? maybe Poke Milkweed? Nice looking patch there too.

[dapjwy]

I finally tuned into this thread...about half-way through (where I'd left off way back when). I even had to switch to linear mode so that I could view them more quickly. Every year I say I'll add my photos as things bloom...and I've yet to do that. ~sigh~

Originally Posted by will-o-wisp

I wonder if anyone has experience with Carolina wild petunia?
Specifically how aggressive is it?

I put a few wild petunia in last year...they bloomed for me (I think they had buds and a flower or two when I bought them). This year, about a month ago, I noticed it came up (and I remembered that I had it). Shortly thereafter, the deer found it. They've chomped on it at least once--likely twice...so I still have no blooms.

I like Rebek's phrasing "enthusiastic"! I'd be fine with it being enthusiastic. Maybe it could keep up with the deer's browsing.

[linrose]

Yes rB that is common milkweed. That photo has cherry, maypop, tuliptree, shining sumac, Carolina buckthorn, goldenrod, and a mess of other stuff. That area is on the edge between the field and the woods by the sinkhole so it gets a some moisture. To the left of the photo is a big blackberry and pokeweed thicket that the birds hang out in.

[dapjwy]

Originally Posted by Gloria

The little blue gentian is showing its colors
but the ironweed is still just buds.

Gentian!?! I thought that was one of the last things to bloom...I'm still counting on a bit of summer left.

As for ironweed...I put some in last year...over the past few weeks I've seen one huge stem that must be at least 6 ft. tall...Today I went to take pictures of the cup plant blooms, and decided to take a shot of the buds forming on the tall stem--that is when I discovered it is not ironweed (but, luckily, I did find a very short, three stemmed ironweed nearby..so I didn't lose it). It only took me about thirty seconds to rack my brain...and I remembered what else I'd put in there--now I have to search for the name, since it didn't come to me...just the "mop-top" flowers that this native will have once it does bloom.

--Back from searching: Common Wingstem (Verbesina alternifolia)

That is what I thought was the New York ironweed.

[dapjwy]

Originally Posted by will-o-wisp

No pictures until someone shows me how to download from my phone.

Until someone does, do you know how to e-mail yourself the a photo from your phone? That is what I was doing (tedious for a lot of photos, but it works)...that is, until I got Jeff to help. He just connected the phone to the USB port through a cable.

[EllenW]

Originally Posted by dapjwy

Mouse ears?! I call it Asiatic dayflower. I've got a patch that I'm trying to get rid of--no easy task.

I've read that there is a native dayflower with 3 petals...but I've yet to encounter it.

I call it dayflower too dap. I have the Asiatic kind. It is so invasive. I pull it out. Yes there is a native dayflower with 3 blue petals. I have never seen the native type here.