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Friday, January 15, 2010

January 2010 Garden Bloggers Bloom Day on a Fertilizer Friday.

Two days where gardeners share their blooms have coincided this Friday, today it's Bloom Day and Fertilizer Friday. Our weather has cooperated very well this past week and we've had nice mild weather, although very rainy, which allowed me to get a few pictures of the newest flowers. I've got some things blooming inside as well as outside this month.

Starting inside is my first Amaryllis 'White Christmas'. This was actually the last one to sprout, but the first one to bloom. It's got another stalk of flowers coming up as well.

The Meyer Lemon tree is blooming like crazy. The whole room smells so sweet from it. I'm not able to tell yet whether any lemons have started yet.

Outside more and more Pansies are blooming. These are in the window boxes under our dining room window.

Another Pansy in one of the deck planters.

Sarcococca ruscifolia or Sweet box has begun blooming! What a delicious smell these have. The flowers are tiny but very strongly scented. You can see the berries that form after the flowers have finished blooming.

Hellebores in the backyard are blooming. This plant is further along than the rest, but the others look like they should bloom in the next week or two.

Garden Bloggers Bloom Day is hosted on the 15th of every month by Carol of May Dreams Gardens, visit her to see what she and other gardeners have blooming. Fertilizer Friday is hosted each Friday by Tootsie at Tootsie Time where she asks gardeners to "flaunt their flowers." Visit her as well to see other gardeners blooms.
I won't be around this weekend, but will be back to see everyone's blooms early next week!
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46 comments:

  1. Nice bright blossoms for Bloom Day, nothing better. Violas were my only outside blooms. Love the white Amaryllis. I'm declaring this the Year of the Amaryllis and plan on buying lots of bulbs this fall for bloom from Christmas through Valentines. How much better could it be?

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  2. Hi Catherine,

    I can almost smell your lemon blossoms. The scent of citrus blossoms is just heavenly. I hope you get many lemons this year.

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  3. Love, love the white Amaryllis...that looks like a little lemon in the center of your bloom....it's been so long since ours made any though. I know the scent is beautiful. What a gorgeous apricot colored Pansy!! Good show today.

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  4. Lemon blossoms are the sweetest! Wishing you get lemons this year!
    *hugs*deb

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  5. I love lemon flowers. Even the buds are beautiful... portrayed here is true white, but the pinkish buds are beautiful too. ~bangchik

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  6. The imagined fragrance topped off with your photos makes me want to drop everything and stare at the computer screen;) for awhile! Have a wonderful day~~gail

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  7. Where in the PNW are you? Here, in my part of the PNW there is nothing growing, except for more snow... ;)

    cielo

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  8. Lucky girl! Flowers in your own yard.

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  9. Oh, those hellebores remind me of my old garden in Atlanta. Fond memories. I don't remember them blooming in Jan. there, though. Pretty awesome!

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  10. Beautiful stuff, Catherine. Have a safe weekend.

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  11. What beautiful flowers...every time I sign on to your blog I love being greated by that cute hummingbird! Have a great Fertilizer Friday! Miss Bloomers

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  12. Pansies! And Hellebores!! I'm getting excited just seeing yours. (I know, how pathetic.)

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  13. Beautiful! I'd love to smell the sarcoccea and meyer lemon. Those berries are so neat too.

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  14. I am so jealous you have flowers blooming! All I have to look at are small little seedlings.

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  15. Catherine, beautiful blossoms and I can smell both the lemon blossom and the Sarcococca. ;)

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  16. You've got so much going on and it all looks great. I was going to walk around again but it won't quit raining and you know I'll melt if I go out in it. I did check my Hellebores though and I see no sign of it. Hmmmm now that I finally liked the way it got prettier with age it dies on me.

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  17. Yours are wonderful... it is all about the images today isn't it?
    I did a V-Blog from my GREEN Zone for Bloom Tuesday. I hope you will stop by and take a look.

    Happy Bloom Day!

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  18. Good blooms - much better than mine poor showing

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  19. Such beautiful blooms! Just came from my mailbox & found my poppy seeds. I've looked at your poppy posts. The flowers and seedheads are wonderful. Off to research how to grow some like yours! Thanks!!

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  20. Great photos inside and out and the smell from the lemon and the Sweet box will be lovely.

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  21. I am waiting to see lemons on your lemon tree! Your blooms are beautiful on this january day. I have hellebores, but none with any blooms yet. It shouldn't be long!

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  22. You have so many pretty blooms! I'm beginning to think my hellebores isn't going to do a darned thing this year.
    Brenda

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  23. Your pictures are so pretty Catherine. Love the macro shots of the hellebore , pansy and the lemon blooms. Wish I could smell those lemon blooms.

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  24. 'White Christmas' is a beautiful Amaryllis. Your lemon tree is making me miss my tangerine tree. Ours usually bloomed in Jan/Feb. The fragrance of citrus blossoms is sublime!

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  25. What wonderful blooms for a double day! I will keep my fingers crossed for lemons to form...though I think the flowers alone are worth having one of those babies!

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  26. What a cool picture of the hellebore!

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  27. Such pretty blooms and I just wish I could get a whiff of their sweet scent! I am anxious for our hellebores to bloom - probably be another 6 -8 weeks here. Wishing you a great weekend.

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  28. I could almost smell the lemon flower! Great pictures as usual!

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  29. How lucky you are to have January blooms outside! No chance of that here. I've been longing to grow a Meyer Lemon, I think I'll buy a tiny one and give it a try.

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  30. Your garden sings spring! Lovely photos and blooms... sweet pansy faces ... I imagine the delicious fragrance from your myers lemon and the sweet box. The hellebore steals the show for me... visually at least ... a masterpiece! Hope you have a great weekend! Carol

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  31. As usual, your photos are just beautiful. I love that hint of green on that Hellebore. Have a great weekend.

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  32. Hi Catherine

    Wouldn't even know it's winter looking at this post.

    I've only recently heard about Meyer lemon. Apparently the fruit is sweeter than a normal lemon.

    Rob

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  33. Blow on your lemon flowers or give the bush a little shake and that might help with the pollination. The scent in that room must be incredible.

    Have a great weekend.

    Rosie

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  34. 'White Christmas' sure made up for lost time! Glad your Amaryllis are starting to bloom Catherine. It's so pretty. There are so many that look similar but have different names ~ I'm thinking of my 'Green Goddess' & how it looks a lot like your 'White Christmas??' I don't know that I've ever smelled a citrus plant in bloom ~ I'm going to have to go to the greenhouse and check it out. It would be wonderful to have something pleasant perfuming the air instead of paper whites! Love the hellebore photos too. I knew you would have blooms! Hope it was a good day.

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  35. Hi everyone, just checking in to say thanks for visiting and I'll be around to visit all your bloom day and FF posts soon as I can.

    CIELO - We live in north of Seattle, I guess we're pretty lucky to have things blooming now.

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  36. you always have just the nicest photos! your flowers are just gorgeous...and it is making me ache all over for spring!
    thanks for joining in this week with me!

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  37. What a glorious amaryllis Catherine and such an apt name. The lemon flowers look so pretty - keeping my fingers crossed that you get some fruit :)

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  38. Lindas flores pena estarem cortadas
    Bjs
    Bom domingo
    Graça

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  39. Wonderful !!!!!
    Your photos are always charming and envy your blooms, it seems true that you already have it in January.
    I loved the photos of your Helleborus and this year I decided that I introduce in my garden. A double flower has just arrived from England and the other was given to me by a dear friend, but not yet in bloom.
    Thanks for your always special news!! Kisses!!

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  40. Hi Catherine, What beautiful photos and blossoms!! I was in a Chinese grocery yesterday. They had a couple of "lemon tree/plants." I asked about blossoms and they said they didn't get them. Must be a different variety... (Are there plants that never blossom??) Hm!

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  41. It will be my goal to have a white amaryllis someday. Your white one is gorgeous. I have never seen a yellow pansy like that. Good for you that those pansies are doing well. They sell them around here in the fall but we just can't keep them that long.

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  42. I'm new to my garden blogging. Had no idea we have a bloom day, how great is that! LOVE your blooms, just beautifu. TFS

    xxxx

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  43. Citrus blossom just has the most amazing perfume! Just what you need indoors this time of year!

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  44. That's a lot of happy faces and I know yours makes my day. Big hugs to you.

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  45. How nice it must be to have blooms outside in January.

    You lucky duck!

    donna

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