Victoria Day in the Garden
By the Victoria Day weekend much of the vegetable garden is planted, and many of the perennials in the flower gardens are now blooming too. A few of them are featured here. Can you identify them? Not in order (on purpose) and pictured here are some easier Ids – bearded iris, bleeding hearts, spreading phlox, blanket flower, chives, yellow alyssum, violet, and lily-of-the-valley.
Click an image for a lightbox view and a caption to check your guesses.
These flowers are harder. They include honeysuckle (shrub) flowers, solomon’s seal, bugleweed, rockcress, broom, soapwort, nemophila, coral bells, snow-on-the-mountain, soapwort, speedwell, and saxifrage. Click an image for a lightbox view and an ID/caption?
There are 19 images here. How many did you get right? (You can comment.)
Notes:
- Bleeding hearts – Dicentra sp.
- Iris – Iris germanica (hybridized)
- Violet – Viola sp.
- Alyssum – Aurenia saxatilis
- Chives – Allium schoenoprasum
- Blanket flower – Gaillardia sp.
- Lily-of-the-valley – Convallaria majalis
- Spreading phlox – Phlox diffusa
- Honeysuckle – Lonerica tatarica (a shrub)
- Solomon’s seal – Polygonatum sp.
- Bugleweed – Ajuga reptans
- Rockcress – Aubrieta deltoidea
- Broom – Cytisus scoparius sp. (a low-growing shrub)
- Soapwort – Saponaria sp.
- Baby blue-eyes – Nemophilia menziesii (an annual)
- Coral bells – Heuchera sp.
- Snow-on-the-Mountain – Cerastium sp. (there are 214 species)
- Saxifrage – Saxifraga sp. (there are 473 species)
- Speedwell – Veronica repens
There are native species for many of these. Viola, gaillardia, Cerastium, Heuchera, Saxifraga, and Lonerica can be spotted in our area on nature walks/hikes. Some are featured on A Wildflower Journal.
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