Random flowers and planting

My Blaze Climber is blooming around an arched gate at the entrance to my front yard.

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Native evergreen ivy, also known as mountain laurel, is starting to bloom. I don’t know what’s prettiest, their bright pink buds or their white and mauve colored flowers. When in bloom, I think this is one of our prettiest native shrubs. Click any photo to view a larger version.

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Wildflowers are blooming in abundance in the woods all around the house, including the dwarf irises still blooming with their bright lavender and purple flowers. The woods are getting thicker and thicker now, and I notice something new in bloom almost daily while I’m out walking. The dark burgundy trilliums are nearing the end of their bloom now, and are such a dark burgundy that they almost look black against all the bright shades of green. Everywhere, I see tiny white flowers of all kinds, including the blackberry bushes with their bright white flowers at the edges of the woods and roadsides in this area.

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I’ve gone back to the garden center twice now. I cannot resist buying when I see all the pretty flowers everywhere now. With everything I’ve bought, plus the dozens of plants I grew from seed indoors, I’ve had a lot of planting and yard work to do lately. I have planted numerous containers and beds for the past week, and there are very few bare spots left anywhere in my yard.

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Tulip Poplar flowers are falling everywhere now. It seems there’s always something falling from the many poplar trees here, but their flowers are kind of pretty.

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I absolutely love these African Daisies. I bought several pots of them, and have planted them in containers and here and there throughout the rock wall beds. I think the purple ones are one of the prettiest flowers I’ve seen.

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The azaleas, including the flame azaleas, are mostly done blooming now, but a couple of the brightest pink ones in the shade at the edge of the woods are still bright and pretty. I also have two large evergreen azaleas to look forward to. They are just starting to show color. These always bloom later than the deciduous varieties here.

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I planted two large hanging baskets for my front porch, one with the fuchsia I bought the other day and just got the other one planted yesterday with New Guinea Impatiens. The fuchsia seems to be thriving, so far. I have two hanging baskets in the Secret Garden, also with impatiens, and one at the lamp post bed with a purple Wave petunia, and another red wave petunia at my front porch steps.

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I still have a few things left to plant and a couple of empty large containers around the pool, but for the most part, my flower beds and containers are full.. until I go back to the garden center. :) It’s so hard to resist, isn’t it?

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