It’s been a couple of months since I’ve done a Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day post. Here’s what’s blooming in my garden this month!
The best bloom yet on our Cymbidium orchid! This thing’s been in a bark-filled hole in the ground for five years now, and has never bloomed like this.
Our Pieris japonica ‘Mountain Fire’ slowly readying to pop some blooms.
Kedrostis africana has the tiniest little yellow flowers!
Another angle of the Kedrostis africana, vining and twining in its birdcage.
Our ever-reliable Fuchsia boliviana. Can’t wait to eat the fruit these will become. 🙂
Look at the hydrangea flower, and ignore the powdery mildew.
Echeveria ‘Black Prince’ has been going strong for a few years with probably only a dozen waterings ever!
Closeup detail of one portion of a huge inflorescence on my Fatsia japonica.
Begonia ‘Irene Nuss’.
Meyer lemon flowers. Love the smell of citrus flowers!
Omni-present flowers of Lotus maculatus ‘Amazon Sunset’, or Parrot’s Beak.
Inspired by the words of Elizabeth Lawrence, “We can have flowers nearly every month of the year,” Carol of May Dreams Gardens started this event. On the 15th of every month, garden bloggers from all over the world publish what is currently blooming in their gardens.
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The fuchsia boliviana looks so exotic and I never would have dreamed that they had edible fruit.
Marisa, it is a beautiful plant isn’t it? It’ll grow about ten feet tall in the ground (this one is in a pot).
Apparently all fuchsia fruit is edible, but this is the only species where I’ve seen fruit after learning about that. They’re about the size of a Mike and Ike candy, pale green, and taste not unlike a blueberry! Mild and sweet. Great to toss a handful into a bowl of granola. 🙂
I took a Plant ID class and found out the same thing. Apparently, all of them make fruit 3is you don’t pluck the flower’s stem. The ovary, which is attached to the sepals, swells to make the fruit. The flowers would need pollinators for any fruit production to start, of course. I have three Fuchsias. The Fuchsia Society’s stance is to pick the flower’s stem so you will keep the plant from going into seed production mode because it’s about having a showy, abundant flowering season. I learned the hard way and didn’t prune it, although, hummingbirds would pollinate it daily. My two other hardy fuchsias (pruned nicely) had bloom drops all over the place. The unpruned, newer one, with the seed pods (ovaries) had 5 blossoms… Sorry for the long comment. #GARDENINGGANG
You’re totally right. Not all of them taste good, but they’re certainly edible. 😊
Nice pictures.
Thanks!
Fuchsia arborescens – The fruit are not sweet at all but you could make a jam with a bunch of them, I guess.
Ah, hadn’t thought of that. Jam, yes!