fresh start -
iris shows me
how to bloom

#haikufeels #start #haiku #iris #bloomreport #FlowerReport #bloomscrolling #poetry #photography

Spring has ARRIVED! 🌷

View this week's #BloomReport to help plan your next Garden visit.

📸 Nathan Kwarta

#MOBOTGarden

Spring has finally arrived at the Garden! 🌷

Check out this week's #BloomReport to plan your upcoming Garden visit.

📸 Nathan Kwarta

#MOBOTGarden

Spring is on the horizon and so are its blooms! 🌸

View this week's #BloomReport to help plan your next Garden visit.

📸 Nathan Kwarta

#MOBOTGarden

So. Fucking. Beautiful. 😭

#BloomReport
#FlowerReport
#bloomscrolling
#flowers
#spring
#photography

Six inch trumpet-shaped flower, bright red. Flower has six large petals and long anthers tipped in golden pollen. It's on a sturdy stem with green strap-like basal leaves.

Indoors, buy hopefully still counts as a #BloomReport
Hardware-store amaryllis

A Purpletop vervain making the best of life in the cracks of a side walk. #Bloom #Bloomreport #Flowers #Flower #Urbannature #Montreal

Joe-Pye weed enjoying life next to a creek. #Flowers #Flower #Flowersofbluesky #Flowerreport #Bloom #Bloomreport #Nature

yellow cinquefoil?

SQUASH

black eyed Susans

cosmos over daisies

good morning everyone!

Owlbug Farms (my backyard) is kicking along this summer, we've been plucking spinach and lettuce for weeks now and the first big batch of peas is almost ready.

#Gardening #BloomReport #OwlbugFarms

Two bees sleeping on new blooms of blue vervain, verbena hastata.

Two bees asleep under the bloom of a drumstick allium.

Two bees asleep on purple prairie clover, Dalea purpurea

It’s that perfect time of year when the bees sleep on the blooms all night, they can be found in the same spot in the morning until the sun warms them up again.
Find your joy in the pollinator garden. 💕
#bloomreport #nativeplants #sustainable #gardening #bees #nativebees

fully white foxglove flower bells in deep forest

Pretty but noxious weed (foxglove). Taking photos before removal (with... gloves. It's right in the name!)
#bloomreport #bloomscrolling

Three colors of iris blooming in a triangle. Up front is a gold iris with purple and blue insides to the falls, behind it is a pale gold iris with red and purple falls, and behind those are a stand of variegated iris in pale lavender.

A close up of two blooms on the gold iris with pale purple and white insides to the falls.

A close up of the pale gold iris with red and purple insides to the falls.

A view of a large stand of heavily blooming Purple Rocky Mountain Penstemon, beyond it you can see the iris, then large pines and our mailbox

The fancy iris are open, y’all. #gardening #GardenSky #BloomReport #BloomScrolling 🌱

A hand holding two large fragile white poppies, one tinged with purple

Yellow tube shaped flowers on a stem of agastache

Pale pink flowers on a hardy Geranium spp.

Small yellow flowers shaped similarly to dandelions, bolted up from a long stem of romaine lettuce

#BloomReport from the patio: Mother of Pearl poppies, yellow agastache, hardy geranium still going, and…. lettuce (lol)

Wisteria climbing a white trellis up side of a porch with beautiful clusters of lavender colored blossoms beginning to bloom

Excited this wisteria I planted last year is already climbing above my head & producing these beautiful grape-like clusters of blossoms. 🌱 #BloomReport

Bright fusia pink flowers burst from cacti leaves.

Beavertail cactus
‘Opuntia basilaris’
Joshua Tree

#bloomscroll #bloomreport #flowerreport
#desertbloom
#cactus

Yellow Columbine bloom

Red columbine bloom

Blue Columbine, Rocky Mountain columbine

Columbine flower

It’s Columbine time here on the front range of Colorado 😍
#bloomreport
#bloomscrolling
#nativeplants
#pollinators

Clusters of small exotic-lookking tubular flowers in mostly white with deep purple “tongues” guiding insects into pollinate them.

A tiny spike of white stars with a hint of yellow at the tips.

#BloomReport from the front gardens: Melittis is back and looking gorgeous while we have our first bloom from #NativePlants Maianthemum racemosum (Solomon's Plume). Both perfect selections for #TinyFlowerTuesday.

#gardening #bloomscrolling 🌱

A Strawberry hedgehog cactus blooming near Joshua Tree. An Echinocereus engelmannii.

How would you describe the color of this bloom?

#bloomscroll #bloom #flower #flowerreport #bloomreport #desertbloom #cactus

A close-up shot of the center of a bright pink peony, the cadmium yellow stamens resembling a pompom or sea anemone, the petals unfurled silky and shining in the morning light.

A delightfully bold peony from my garden this morning.

#AColorADaypril #rose #peony #bloomscrolling #onlybeautifulthings #bloomreport #artyear #gardening #phonephoto #photooftheday #newengland #flowerphotography #gardensky #artshare

Curious to know what's been blooming this week at the Garden? Check out this week's #BloomReport! 🌷

Another week, another set of blooms! 🌻🌷

Check out what's blooming around the Garden in this week's #BloomReport.

For #blueskymonday and #macromonday I present this photo I took of some plum blossoms. I cropped it to be used as a phone background.

#spring #blooms #bloomscrolling #bloomreport #pink #purple #beautifulday #macro #myphoto #photography #photos #light #suburbia #nature #flowers #plants #happythought

Still #flowerfriday in the #pnw. Here’s a pic I took a few years ago of a purple pincushion flower.

#bloomscrolling #gardening #macro #photography #photo #bloomreport #pacificnorthwest #plants #flowers #littlethings #sparksjoy

(🧵 9/9) Stop by to soon see these blooms on your next Garden visit!

📸 Nathan Kwarta

#MOBOTGarden #BloomReport

An exuberant cluster of yellow crocuses

Crocuses are busting out all over and it feels like spring around here #bloomreport