Blooming in Seattle

19 May

I love how my plants are turning out this year.   One of the nice things about Seattle’s winter of rain and gloom is that you appreciate the summer weather.    I need to work on my plant selection though, when I picked the plants for my landscaping I didn’t get enough variety.   Once my Rhododenreons  loose their flowers my backyard loses some of its shine.

So can someone recommend plantings that will get me blooms from now until September?

6 Responses to “Blooming in Seattle”

  1. Blooming in Seattle December 31, 1969 at 5:00 pm #

    RE: Blooming in Seattle

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  2. Anita Rowland May 20, 2003 at 5:10 pm #

    Check out Jessica Amanda Salmonson’s garden site (bloglike because she posts or updates several pages per day). Great honest comments on the plants in her garden in Bremerton.

  3. Joshua Allen May 21, 2003 at 12:54 am #

    Lillies bloom later in the summer; august and september I think.I guess that roses will bloom sometime between when the rhodys stop and the lillies start, so that is a way to schedule things (and the daffodils bloom first, then tulips second, before the rhody and camelia and azelia and hydrangea).Also, depends on what kind of flowers you want — begonias seemed to be producing flowers for me for most of the year last year.Then lots of the groundcover with flowers (especially alyssium, which is one of my favorite groundcovers) blooms right up until october like a tiny carpet of flowers.I bought the “western garden” book when I moved out here, and used that to try to schedule blossoms, but I have personally found the best education on Seattle plants I could get was hanging out at Molbaks (and someone else on my blog suggested Wells Medina which looks just as good) and reading what they say, taking pictures of the plant displays they have, talking to the people, etc.They have better advice about which stuff needs sun vs. which needs shade, when stuff is going to blossom, and so on.

  4. Jeff Sandquist May 22, 2003 at 1:27 am #

    Thanks for the advice Joshua.What a treasure trove of information.I need to do some shopping this weekend.

  5. Andrew Stopford May 28, 2003 at 1:31 pm #

    I like your chimera (I think I spelt it correctly), they are great for keeping patio areas warm but do sometimes have a habit of cracking. Here in the UK they are not cheap, around 80 pounds for the smallest version but I think worth the money.

  6. Matthew April 9, 2006 at 10:32 am #

    I live in NC and want to plant Camelia as a hedge row, will they do well in full sun.. any other suggestions..Matthew