Gardening Flowers & Foliage

The bridal bush is doing well

 

Wow, that is awesome!

 

Peonies are doing great in the roadside garden. The first 2 pictures are of the front of the flower bed where the lighter pink peonies are. Then the next 2 are of a darker pink cultivar.









The big rhodies out front are doing well too


Ninebark


False indigo. Was trying to get a picture with bees, but I don't see them

 

Primrose in a bed needing to be weeded.

 

A few white peonies opened up yesterday

 

Those are pretty

 

White hydrangea





And cousin blue




Didn't have any blue blooms last year.

And future Winterberry

 

My hydrangea isn't nearly that far along. but again, it doesn't bloom every year since I don't water it. Still in drought since last year, so doubt it will do anything this year, but that remains to be seen.

Noticed yesterday my winterberry shrubs are blooming. I also noticed they are trying to take over that corner of their wor;d and I'll need to cut them back.

 

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Got a beautiful white rhododendron in bloom, 15 feet from bridal bush

 

Also being on well water, I don't water much in the yard. Especially with an ongoing drought. We're 9inches below average for '26. We were below a few inches for '25.

 

Yeah, my area is still in drought too, but at least I'm on town water. Last I knew my area was at 12-16" deficit since last year. I water the 4 shrubs I planted last fall so I don't lose them and everything else fends for itself. I don't have any potted flowers this year either.

 

Humble flowers. My largest American chestnut coming into bloom for the first time this year.

 

That's great. Well done, my friend

 

Totally ignorant when it comes to flowers, so I have no idea what these are, and I don't recall them ever growing on my property before. Now there are several (all purple except for one white plant). Even I can appreciate nature's beauty in these.

 

Are those a type of hydrangeas MikeInMa ?

I am in the MSGT position as he stated above IDK much, my mother loved her flowers and had many flowers beds

her BIL jimmy was head gardener on Rockefeller estate He has forgotten more than I know

 

Yes - Hydrangea.

No blooms last year. Happy to see them now.