Garden Bloggers Bloom Day June 2026 #GardenBloggersBloomDay

(If you are looking for my Music Moves Me post, please click here).

The countdown is on.  This is the last spring Garden Bloggers Bloom Day hosted by Carol at May Dreams Gardens, who invites flower gardeners from all over the world to display what is blooming in their homes and/or gardens.  

Carol won't be hosting this meme after the end of this year.I've participated for years and it's been a great way to keep a garden log, at least for the 15th of the month,

Anyway, here's what is blooming in my zone 6a garden in the Southern Tier of New York. Our weather has been so up and down, and a period of hot weather and no rain stressed my plants.

 Most all of my perennials have either finished up or are waiting to bloom.  Some of my dallies have buds - too soon for flowers, alas.  I should have some in July,  So, much of what I'm showing you are either containers or hanging baskets.

A surprise for me - one of my barrenwort plants in my part/full shade back yard is still blooming.
 

Siberian columbine meadow-rue (Thalictrum aquilegiifolium) is finishing up but several blooms still look good.

Home Depot had seed geraniums at a reasonable price and I bought some.  These are salmon colored.

Same seed geraniums, but red.

I still have pansies in pots.

My million bells are looking good.

Sunpatiens,

More sunpatiens,

Finally, this is the second year I've bought starter plants from Select Seeds and, like last year, I was so pleased with my purchases!  Here are two geraniums I purchased from them.  The top plant is Appleblossom Variegata and the bottom plant is Vancouver Centennial.  Both are more grown for foliage than for flowers. The Appleblossom Variegate has white edging on the leaves.  

I am also growing a scented geranium from Select Seeds called True Rose.  It is grown for scent and not flowers, but the plant has some flower buds.

So, what is blooming for you today?

Garden Bloggers Bloom Day May 2026

 On this last Garden Bloggers Bloom Day May post (because Carol at May Dreams Gardens, who has hosted this meme for many years, is retiring GBBD at the end of this year) I have many blooms to show you in my zone 6a garden in the Southern Tier of New York.

Our weather has been so up and down. This week we had days in the 50's F (12.7 C) and by Monday, it will be in the 90's F (32.2 C).  Then, by the end of next week, it will cool down again. This was after having a warmer (and wetter) April than we normally do.

I looked at my flower photos from May of 2025 and it appears we are slightly behind May of 2025, after all that up and down. 

The daffodils are fading away.

These are the last good ones.

The Japanese tree peony buds are getting ready to open.  

Euphorbia has been blooming for a while. 

A fuchsia tower, my Mother's Day gift.  Thank you, son! (Smart son; he brings me a different hanging basket each year).

Lily of the Valley.

One of the two pansy baskets I made up this year.

In the front, my iris are starting to bud up.

Now to the shady back yard. 

My trillium, This variety does not have flowers that open; they don't need to as they are pollinated by ants.

Primrose is almost finished.

I think this is brunneria Jack Frost.  I didn't capture many of the lovely small blue flowers because I was concentrating on the foliage.

I call this my lemon and lime brunneria.  I also have brunneria with "regular" green leaves.

In the back, it looks like my bleeding heart didn't survive the winter and my purple lilacs are on strike this year.  My white Lilacs are still blooming but are so high up I decided I had enough flowers already.  So I will end this here.

May is such a wonderful time.  Hoping that if you have a garden, it is doing well.  

Now, why not visit some of the other flower gardeners posting their links at Garden Bloggers Bloom Day and check out what's blooming for them?

Garden Bloggers Bloom Day March 2026 and #ShadowshotSunday

Once again, memes collide.

It is Garden Bloggers Bloom Day.  Brought to you the 15th of each month by Carol at May Dream Gardens, garden bloggers from all over the world gather to show what is blooming in their gardens, their greenhouses, their houses, or wherever their flowers reside. 

But, as they say, "Beware the Ides of March".

The weather has swung from winter to spring to winter again.  Last week was false spring where I live in the Southern Tier of New York, zone 6a.   Some early native trees are blooming, and I have bulbs coming up. Yesterday, I woke up to a dusting of snow.  Winter does not loosen its grip easily.

I even have outdoor blooms to show you. 

Yesterday, my first crocus bud appearedin the front yard.  The foliage wasn't even up three or so days ago.  Boom!

Two views of my backyard white Lenten rose, which has been waiting patiently since late December. 

My purple Lenten rose isn't blooming yet, but buds are visible. 

Other bulbs are peeking through the ground, wondering if the time is right. 

I looked at my post from March of 2025 and we were a little bit further along, but that's OK.  Nature has announced that Spring is Really Here.

 

Inside, an African violet blooms. My inch plant is blooming too, but I can't get a good picture with my iPhone 13 mini.

That's it for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day.

For #ShadowshotSunday, brought to us by Lisa at This and That: A Blog, a picture taken Wednesday in a local park. I was hoping to get a garden shadow picture from today, but, so far, no shadows.

Hoping your Ides of March is happier than Julius Caeser's was for him. 

Garden Bloggers Bloom Day February 2026 and #ShadowshotSunday

 Two memes today for the price of one.

First, Garden Bloggers Bloom Day, where, on the 15th of each month, bloggers from all over the world post the flowers that are blooming in their yards or houses/apartments.

In my Southern Tier of New York zone 6a small garden, it's been cold.  In the last 30 days, we reached a low of -3F (-19.4 C) although outlying areas reached as low as -26F (-32.2 C) that morning.  Either way, that's cold. 

Here, in a cold winter, I have nothing outdoors to show you but snow. However, when the snow started to pile up, I had an early Lenten Rose plant with buds on it.  Right now, it's still covered with snow and I hope the snow sheltered it from the freezing cold.  We'll see.

Indoors, I don't have much to show you, either. 

The one Phalaenopsis I have is dropping its flowers.  These are all that are left.

My spider plant is trying to have baby spider plants.

Finally this blurry pink flower belongs to my Tradescantia.

Thanks go to Carol at May Dreams Gardens for keeping up this 15th of the month meme for all these years. Sadly, this will be the last year Carol will be hosting this meme, and I thank her.  GBBD, as we fondly call it,  has caused me to keep a sort-of gardening journal, at least for one day of each month.

Now, I'm switching to Shadowshot Sunday, brought to us by Lisa at This and That: A Blog.  I decided to use a flower theme from a warmer time.  Here's a camellia at Bok Gardens near Lake Wales, Florida, taken in January of 2018.

I love camillias.  I even tried to grow one where I live (back when we were zone 5b), and the story is told in several posts over the years.  Here's one of them.  Will I try again?  

Hopefully, next month, I'll be able to bring you other flowers.

Only 33 more days before spring!
 

Garden Bloggers Bloom Day January 15 2026 and Skywatch Friday

Today is two memes for the price of one.  I hope you stay for both of them.

First, held every 15th of the month, is Garden Bloggers Bloom Day, where flower gardeners from all over the world post what is blooming in their homes and/or gardens.  This is hosted by Carol at May Dreams Gardens. 

It's a winter storm day in my zone 6a Southern Tier of New York garden.  

The other day,  I was pleased to discover that the recent warming spell melted almost all of our snow, revealing my white early blooming Lenten Rose.  I took this picture yesterday, before more snow came. 

Flower buds count, right?

As for my indoor flowers, call it January sparse:

Phalaenopsis, purchased several weeks ago in a membership warehouse.   I've killed several orchids over the years but the one that did the best for me, lasting several years (purchased one Black Friday), finally died late last year.   

Chocolate solder, one of my small succulent plants in my home office.  It has a flower stalk (see middle of photo).  Sorry for the blurriness. I tried retaking this three times and best I can seem to do.

Finally, (cheating, perhaps but it's January), dried flowers on one of my two African violets.  Now, today is also #SkywatchFriday, hosted by Yogi.

Last Sunday, during our relatively warm spell, I took some puddle pictures.

Looks like black and white, but this is in color.

Nice to have puddles, which mean it's above freezing.  No puddles today, though.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Garden Bloggers Bloom Day December 2025

Welcome to my December 2025 Garden Bloggers Bloom Day post. (If you are looking for my Music Moves Me post, click here).

On the 15th of each month, bloggers gather to show what is growing in their gardens and/or homes.  In my Zone 6a garden in the Southern Tier of New York, plants sleep under a blanket of snow, including my white Lenten Rose, which blooms early. It was already budded out at the beginning of the month.

 I should have taken a picture before the snow came, but let's pretend the picture below is current because I'm not going to dig into the snow to find a photo op.

 Here is a picture from a previous year showing its buds.  Hopefully, the buds won't be killed before it can bloom (possibly in February).

Otherwise, all I have to offer is this African violet blooming in my dining room.  I guess I've lost my houseplant mojo.  In the past couple of months I've killed two African violets and seriously injured a Thanksgiving cactus.  Another Thanksgiving cactus gave me all of two buds and dropped both of them.

But strangely...back in 2019 I was given a planter by my employer that had various plants including a small Thanksgiving cactus.  The cactus never showed signs of blooming until the other day, when I saw a flower bud on it.

With plants, you just never know.  That's so much of the fun of gardening.

Joining up each 15th of the month with Garden Bloggers Bloom Day, hosted by Carol at May Dreams Gardens. 

Is anything blooming for you?  If so, why not join us?

 

Garden Bloggers Bloom Day November 2025

 How could it be November already?  Or, to be exact, November 15?  It's time for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day, hosted by Carol at May Dreams Gardens.  Each 15th of the month,  flower gardeners from all over the world gather virtually to show what is blooming in their homes and yards. 

In my zone 6a Southern Tier of New York garden, we've had our first frost. So I will start with indoor flowers.

African violet.

This is a new plant to me.  I purchased it last Friday, and apologize for the blurryness.  The two tiny flowers, which are supposed to open at night, are blurred, too. This is called a concrete leaf plant (Titanopsis calcarea).  I seem to have good luck with succulents, so we'll see.  This is in a tiny pot.

Finally, one of my Plectranthus, which I informally call a Charlie plant.  Years ago, a woman in Ithaca, New York gave me a cutting.  What I have now are cuttings from that original plant.  When I asked her what it was, she said it was a "Charlie plant". Whatever their name is, they are blooming their little plant hearts out on my northern window. 

As for the outdoor flowers, I thought I would have my potted up cuphea that are located near a vent for our heating system.  They escaped frost, or so I thought.  Apparently, last night did them in.   But I took a picture anyway.

And that's it. 

If you are hungry for more flowers, why not head over to Carol at May Dreams Gardens and check out what other gardeners are posting? 

Thank you for stopping by! 

Garden Bloggers Bloom Day October 2025 #WordlessWednesday

Today, two memes I participate in, Wordless Wednesday (hosted by Sandee of Comedy Plus) and Garden Bloggers Bloom Day (hosted by Carol of May Dreams Gardens) collide.

I hope my Wordless Wednesday readers enjoy the remnants of my outdoor flowers.  Garden Bloggers Bloom Days, the 15th of each month, is a place where gardeners from all over the world share what is blooming in their yards and/or homes.

In my zone 6a Southern Tier of New York garden, not many flowers are left.  We've dodged three frosts/freezes at my house (many around us weren't as fortunate) and it is going to get down into the 30's tonight.

This October, I took some of these pictures on Saturday, not knowing if we'd have a storm Sunday and Monday.  It turned out to be just some rain for us.

Anyway, I've said enough.  Onward to the flowers! 

Cuphea.  Both of these were mailordered, and I was so happy with both varieties I purchased.

Yellow lantana.

The remnants of my cultivated New England aster.

Sedum "I have no idea what variety this is -I've just had it forever".

I cut way back on hanging baskets.  This sunpatien hanging from my front porch roof is about done. 

White geranium.

Taken Saturday, this was a pleasant surprise daylily.

Last but not least, I also took this picture Saturday because I knew, with a heavy rain, it wouldn't look like much by today. 

Thank you for stopping by!