🌱🥳YOUR NEW FAVORITE FLOWER? Schizanthus x wisetonensis (Poor Man's Orchid, Butterfly Flower) 'Atlantis Mix' F1. Grown OP 'Angel's Wings' since youth in Alaska, now muddy pastels thanks to genetic drift & downgrade - poor seed crop management. Eager to see this 8 color formula mix perform! Solanaceae

🌱🖤Reblooming Tall Bearded (TB) Iris 'Ozark Rebounder' (Barbara Nicodemus, 2002; by Rockytop Gardens, 2003) on a bright & chilly suburban Chicagoland day. Pure luxury in velvet black with violet & white hafts, plus opulent muticolored beards. Reliable rebloom in Zone 5b. Iridaceae

🌱 What a lovely surprise for Monday morning! My Amaryllis have bloomed! Now moved into the shade to make those gorgeous flowers last just a little bit longer :) #GardeningFeed

🌱❤️HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY - in my usual tradition to post songs about complicated Mothers & relationships, here's a new one for me from Sharon Kovacs - she nails it BRUTALLY and BEAUTIFULLY!🥰 youtube.com/watch?v=fnXb...

🌱FUTURE FAVA BEANS: Vicia faba 'Vroma' (Johnny's Seeds, 2014). Nice to know I can be away for a week & these just keep moving along, the coolish moist weather certainly helped. The thick, dense plants & concentrated flower set are impressive & Fava Bean flowers are exceptionally beautiful! Fabaceae

🌱❤️💛 For #FlowersOnFriday as I prepare to leave Savannah, Georgia after a conference, Spigelia marilandica (Woodland Pinkroot) brightens a cloudy day at Savannah Botanical Gardens. A beloved native from Southeast to Midwest US, it's also a favorite in cultivation. Loganiaceae

🌱In Savannah, Georgia, nothing says "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" quite like Tillandsia usneoides (Spanish Moss). A Bromeliad, it drapes limbs of Quercus virginiana (Southern Live Oak) & infiltrates 👻 ghost stories, Gothic Southern Yarns, & 😱 murder mysteries! Bromeliaceae & Fagaceae.

@gardenshour.bsky.social I've been so remiss, forgetting #gardenshour recently with all my preparations for visiting family in China next month! Of course, here in N Scotland, we are way behind gardens further south, but here are some pics of what is going on currently (descriptions in alt text).

A summary of April, wet, overcast but the tulips have been great. #gardenshour @gardenshour.bsky.social

#GardensHour lavender is so pretty this time of year 💜🌱

It's hard to pick a favorite. But I do love today's image of my Peace rose with an explosion of Cecile Brunner blooms in the background. #GardensHour 🌱

Evening #GardensHour my favourite photos of April are the tulips - Double Fringed Brisbane (nice but should be a lot taller), and the still yet to open Black Parrot

Tiny flowers. Mighty fragrance. The dwarf Korean Lilac has gone BLOOM! #GardensHour 🌱

Hello #GardensHour, probably my biggest achievement this April has been how many things sprang back to life - including a rhubarb I was convinced had fallen victim to the poor soil. My liquid compost campaign is working! But here is a jolly, and sideways, picture of the rockery.

Found this young lady amongst the columbine. A large black long tonged bumblebee . #GardensHour

April was mainly catching up on things I couldn't do in March, which I have done after a fashion although hardly any of the seeds I sowed have germinated yet). Most of my perennials are coming back to life, dahlias potted up (some have sprouted too), garden nicely full of plants. #GardensHour 🌱

#GardensHour it’s probably the last week of bloom for these pretty dark burgundy tulips 🌷

Hello! A huge welcome to #GardensHour! And let’s say goodbye to April! What have been your biggest accomplishments in your garden this month? Have you got an absolute favourite photo you’ve taken that you’d like to share?

🌱💓CALLING ALL KARENS - this is your moment to shine each year, with the stunning, fragrant beauty of beloved Rhododendron (Azalea) 'Karen' (Gable, 1920s) - reliable, very Winter hardy, & gorgeous. Now if you're the OTHER kind of Karen? STOP IT!😅 Ericaceae

🌱🥶 FREEZE WARNING. To think just a few days ago it was 85°F/29°C in many suburban Chicagoland locations, this morning may drop as low as 27°F/-3°C. Oh...80s again by midweek.🔥 Spring yo-yo continues - with April just an amped-up version of March.

🌱💛 A #SundayYellow rescue, couple months back $1 landed a clearance bag of Narcissus bertonlinii 'Grand Soleil d'Or' (Unknown, pre-1770) into my cart. AKA N. tazzetta ssp. aureus/ssp. bertonlinii. Fragrant & beautiful but not Winter hardy here, will keep potted. Usually grown indoors. Amaryllidaceae

So for non-gardeners🌱, tomatoes can be determinate and indeterminate. This tomato plant was under a community garden bench which made me think it's indeterminate in where it grows, but has a lot of determination. No, no, I do not regret that pun. I'm determinate about it. Cherry up if you hate that.

🌱Before I head back out into the mud from another round of torrential rains, was fun to scroll through so many cheerful #SixOnSaturday posts & blogs.❤️ Here are some Narcissus - Daffodils - still going strong after all the heat, wind & non-stop pummeling from the elements!💪

Spring! Leaves and blooms are burgeoning. And tulips, tulips, tulips! #Sixonsaturday #tulips #Mygarden #Gardening

Sometimes you just have to take the time you need for yourself and focus on what brings peace to your heart and mind. #SixOnSaturday from the garden today 💚❤️🤍💜🩷💙

Today's #sixonsaturday features orange flowers from July 2025 at Gamble Garden. Orange you glad I am sharing them? 😆🧡 #OrangeSaturday #dailyflowers 🌱 #flowerreport #bloomscrolling From top left, clockwise - crocosmia, coneflower, cosmos, nasturtium, dahlia, and calendula.

In the garden this weekend #sixonsaturday #flowers #gardening #bloomscrolling

#sixonsaturday from my garden. Click here n20gardener.com/2026/04/18/s... for six photos and a few words. Happy #gardening everyone 🌱 #UKgardening

#SixOnSaturday, some of what is blooming in my garden, most plants were started from seeds and were pretty easy to grow. 🌱 #HappySaturday #Gardening #Lowcountry #FlowerFeed #BloomScrolling

Up the woodland path. Excited to find that one of my many honesty plants is a white one. #SixonSaturday #Mygarden #Gardening

#SixOnSaturday - Six things happening in my garden this week #gardens #gardening #nature #flowers #growyourown

#sixonsaturday from our garden: yellow forsythia, tulips, ribes, cherry blossom, bluebells and my favourite clematis montana #gardening #bloomscrolling #spring #blossoms

#SixOnSaturday #BloomScrolling

#sixonsaturday 18-04-26 : aubrieta, camassia, rhododendron, ricinus, wallflowers and new fronds of tree fern 🌱 fredgardenerblog2.wordpress.com/2026/04/18/s...

Today's colours #SixonSaturday

A bonus #SixOnSaturday sempervivum special edition, as they're putting on quite a show at the moment, mostly caught somewhere between being green turning to red or red turning to green, which resonates with me somehow 🤔🌱 #PlantSky #Alpines #GreenSat #ColorADay #EastCoastKin #SixPack

#SixonSaturday #Florasky 🌱

🌱 #SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling The first irises have opened, and the tulips keep on coming. Still chilly but at least there is some sunshine

Good morning everyone. Here’s my #SixOnSaturday Have a good one. #gardening #gardeninglife #gardenersworld

#SixOnSaturday is a six foot shedded snake skin, snapdragons, lazy lizard, Yuzu fruit forming, a very old Azalea and purple Phlox. #HappySaturday #Flowers #Gardening #Plants #Nature #FlowerReport #Spring

🌱 #sixonSaturday I have had the opportunity to spend time in my tiny garden this week and that’s where I will be today.

And the tulips go on & on & on 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 I think this is my best tulip year since 2020. Having different varieties certainly extends the season #SixOnSaturday #tulips #tulip #bloomscrolling

In today's #SixOnSaturday... a fragrant mystery Narcissus, a Ranunculus, Egg-custard/nutmeg scented Clematis montana, a Tulip, Cenanothos flowers & Honesty 🌱 onemanandhisgardentrowel.wordpress.com/2026/04/18/s...

Very much a spring themed #SixOnSaturday, but with a hint of the summer approaching. We have Tulips, Cherry Blossom, Bluebells and the first Rose flower. Hope you have a great weekend. 🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #FlowerFeed #BloomScrolling

It's the time of year when all the selfseeded flowers start appearing in my garden. I don't know why I bother growing anything else. Honesty, violas, wild violets, Welsh poppies, forgetmenots, dandelion clock #SixOnSaturday

Hello #SixOnSaturday

Morning all, ah the sweetness of spring, after months of struggling to find #SixOnSaturday to share from my garden, suddenly the difficulty becomes "which six?" Have a good weekend sky-folk 🌱 #Bloomscrolling #PlantSky

I finally have six native plants blooming for #SixonSaturday. #nativeplants #gardening 🌱

Japanese andromeda 🌱 #Bloomscrolling

So much happening in the garden now, not sure which way to look, but a feast for the eyes to be shared 😀 🌱 #FlowerFeed #Gardening Enjoy