what's blooming today?

[treeskin]

While I have some peace and quiet, because By took the kids with him to get more gas for the mowers....

* pinky-lavender china pinks, and some red and white annual dianthus
* "Sooty" sweet william (nearly black)
* tradescantia in shades of lavdender and blue
* sage
* "Orange Balsam" and caraway thymes
* chives (lavender)
* Alium "Molly"
* Iris pseudoacorus (yellow)
* various bearded iris, mostly light yellow and purples
* Iris "Superstition", which is one of the nearly black bearded iris, very dramatic, and two other nearly black types which came to me without names
* my favorite Iris fulva hybrid, all dark reddish-copper (I've sadly lost the tag)
* a few magenta stalks of Byzantine gladiolus, which is perennial here (reliably so, I planted these 10 or 11 years ago)
* yellow-flowered baptisia (can't remember species right now)
* peas!
* strawberries!
* anemonellas (white), going a couple weeks longer than usual because it's been cool
* "Nearly Wild" rose (pink, single, hybrid tea)
* "Austrian Copper" rose (golden yellow, Rosa foetidissima)
* white-flowered climbing rose, single flowers, I think its a Korean rugosa that's becoming invasive in the plains, but I do like it
* a couple early "Stella d'Oro" daylilies
* lemon lily, Hemerocallis lilioasphodelus, which has tiny golden daylily blossoms that smell like citrus blossoms
* wild ginger, which you have to get down on your hands and knees to look at, but is work it for the weird-plant value

Front yard has:
* light yellow bearded iris
* "Eye of the Tiger" and "Wedgewood" dutch iris
* red rugosa roses (in the ditch)
* a pink floribunda rose that came to me unnamed, but is rather nice
* "Harrison's Yellow" roses (which I need to make cuttings of)
* Rosa setigera, a native prairies rose, which has large (for a wild rose), single, medium pink flowers and a tough-as-nails constitution