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Welcome! As "Annie in Austin" I blog about gardening in Austin, TX with occasional looks back at our former gardens in Illinois. My husband Philo & I also make videos - some use garden images as background for my original songs, some capture Austin events & sometimes we share videos of birds in our garden. Come talk about gardens, movies, music, genealogy and Austin at the Transplantable Rose and listen to my original songs on YouTube. For an overview read Three Gardens, Twenty Years. Unless noted, these words and photos are my copyrighted work.

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

GBBD List for January 19, 2010

Some of these plants may have been in bloom for the official Garden Bloggers Bloom Day on the 15th, but it was raining and muddy. Anything at all this year is welcome.

Camellia sasanqua 'Shishi Gashira' - a few flowers

Citrus x meyeri, Meyer's Improved Lemon, inside breakfast room, one bud

Cyclamen persicum/ florist’s cyclamen, buds only, on patio

Delosperma cooperi ? Dark pink flowered hardy ice plant, couple of battered blooms

Dianthus – a couple of buds on ‘Telstar’ hybrid

Gelsemium sempervirens/ Carolina Jessamine - had buds on the 15th - has blooms now

Hippeastrum hybrid AKA amaryllis 'Apple Blossom' in bud

Lonicera sempervirens, coral honeysuckle - so pretty I had to sing about it

Narcissus tazetta?/ unlabelled paperwhite hybrids - opened flowers in back garden were frozen but bulbs in front held off to open a few today.

Osmanthus fragrans/Sweet olive two established shrubs pushed off browned flowers and opened new ones

Oxalis crassipes 'Alba' blooming in secret garden

Pelargonium hybrid, 'Fantasia Salmon', zonal geranium in breakfast room window in bud

Phlox sublata/Creeping phlox in lavender blue - a few flowers in center front bed

Rosmarinus officinalis 'Prostratus' - Prostrate Rosemary, quite a few pale blue flowers

Rosmarinus officianalis, upright Rosemary dotted with white flowers