First time blooms

11 years ago

last modified: 11 years ago

Aren't we gardeners always so excited to see the first blooms on new plants? Thus I can't help but show you these.

First flowers on Mexican olive that Irene passed along ...

First blooms on a very fragrant Mock orange. I've moved the poor thing three times so it never had a chance before ...lol. Also wanted to alert folks that if you're wanting fragrance with your Mock orange then buy it when it's blooming. All are beautiful, but not all are fragrant ...

My wonderful next door neighbors, James and Carolyn, paid a visit to Wild Seed Farms in Fredericksburg and brought back this beautiful pot and flowers for me ...

This is the first time the blue twist leaf yucca (I think) has bloomed. They are 'woody lilies' for sure ...

And to end on some color is this faithful red daylily. Many of the daylilies I've planted have not persisted, but this one has come back through thick and thin for years and years ...

Happy gardening everybody. This has been a most rewarding spring, has it not?

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miradus01

11 years ago

Those are awesome.

Don't you find it kind of weird that we humans like flowers so much? I mean, they're not for us. It's plant genitalia exposed with color and ultraviolet light to attract mostly insect pollinators.

Why the appeal? Even knowing the science behind them, I'm still prone to stopping and sniffing the fragrant genitals of another species. I like flowers!

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Comments (11)

jolanaweb
11 years ago
It has and the mock orange advice is good. I was told that mine was fragrant but it is not, lol

Your garden is really showing off, lol
carrie751
11 years ago
My mock orange is not fragrant either, but it blooms a lot...............does that count? LOL> All looking very beautiful.
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PKponder TX Z7B
11 years ago
I left a fragrant mock orange when we moved. I just didn't know what I had.

Thanks for sharing your garden Roselee!
trbrmc
11 years ago
Such interesting blooms on the olive! And I love those daisies. All of them are stunning!
SALL20 (9a Houston)
11 years ago
Your daylily looks like it might be Red Volunteer. Mine is blooming now and it looks exactly like yours. It is a very good one.
bossjim1
11 years ago
Very nice! I am always amazed at the quality of your photos.
Lynn Marie
11 years ago
Beautiful blooms and great pictures! I can't wait for my daylilies to bloom!
cindybnbigd
11 years ago
I'm brand new to gardening I'm in Dallas Texas region 8 if there's anything anyone is willing to send me providing save flowers Acela the flowers and
roselee z8b S.W. Texas
Original Author
11 years ago
Sall20, I think you're right! Red Volunteer (1984) it is. It lost it's tag long ago so will retag. Thank you for knowing and telling ... :-)

Thank you all for your kind comments.
roselee z8b S.W. Texas
Original Author
11 years ago
last modified: 11 years ago
Miradus, I've thought about that, but don't find it wierd because the methods of reproduction in mammals and plants are so different. Plants have another kind of private life. Therefore we can joyfully exclaim:

Vive la différence!

... in celebration of the wonderful diversity Mother Nature has provided for us to enjoy ... :-)