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November 2009 Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day at Helen’s Haven

November 15, 2009 at 7:44 am · Filed under Garden Bloggers Bloom Day ·Tagged Helen's Haven Garden Blogger's Bloom Day

We have yet to experience a hard frost in time for this month’s Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day. It’s late. So, I have more blooms than I should have. Helen’s Haven, in Raleigh, NC is holding her own, but definitely ready to be put to bed. While most of the fall flowers are still in bloom, some are looking a little sad.

Purple Basil

Camelia sasanqua 'Sestugekka' from Camellia Forest

'Moonbeam'

Rosa 'Rainbow Sorbet'

Verbena 'Homestead Purple'

Hardy Cycleman

'Hot Lips' Salvia

'Pretty Much Picasso™' trial in Helen's Haven. A true proven winner

Osmanthus

'Miss Huff' Lantana

American Beauty Berry, Aster, Salvia

Oakleaf Hydrangea so pretty in the fall.

Burgmansia detail

Brugmansia Angel Flower

Purple coneflower

Unknown reblooming Iris. Somehow doesn't look natural in the fall landscape.

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Sheffield Pink Mum from my friend kk

Purple Salvia

Edgeworthia still in leaf with flower heads forming

Big leaf Magnolia with Knock out Rose

Quince

'White Ball' Butterfly bush

Proven Winners Snow Princess™

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Echinacea 'Double Pink Delight'

Brizillian Verbena

Rain lily

Red Bed in November

Carolina Jassamine

Rosa 'Pink Peace'

Tropical Snail Vine

Verbena 'Homestead Red'

Nippon Daisy

Unknown Dalhia

Acer palmatum 'Sango-kaku'

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October 2009 Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day at Helen’s Haven

October 15, 2009 at 5:36 am · Filed under Garden Bloggers Bloom Day

October GBBD at Helen’s Haven in Raleigh, North Carolina, reminds hardy, yet the rain and very cool temperatures of late are unseasonable. So far, frost is at bay. The flowers and seed continue to welcome the wildlife.

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Miss Huff Lantana

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Edgeworthia

Loropetalum 'Pizazz'

Ruellia brittoniona

Helianthus detail

White Ball Butterfly Bush

Rain Lily

Swamp Crinum - LOVE this

Proven Winners' Snow Princess'

Chrysanthemum 'Clara Curtis'

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'Moonbeam'

Abelia 'Golden Anniversary'

Rudbeckia black-eyed Susan

Echinacea 'White Swan'

Echinacea 'Double Pink Delight'

Vignette

Overview of Red Bed

Helianthus 'Swamp Sunflower'

Red Homestead - not real impressed with its performance in my garden

Drummondii

Lycorius

Nippon Daisey

Autumn Sedum

Cl. Don Jaun rose

Unknown Butterfly bush

Muhly grass

Limelight hydrangea

Hardy Cyclamen

Society Garlic

Tansy

Still Zuni

Obiedent plant

Vinca

Helianthus angustifolia Dwarf swamp 'Low Down'

Purple cone flower

Zinnia

Leucantha

American Beauty berry

Aster Tartan

Bangel Tiger Canna

Cleome Seed

September 2009, Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day in Helen’s Haven

September 15, 2009 at 7:22 am · Filed under Garden Bloggers Bloom Day ·Tagged Garden Bloggers Bloom Day, GBBD, Helen Yoest, Helen's Haven

Welcome to Helen’s Haven Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day in Raleigh, NC. Here you will find a glimpse of the plants in bloom on this one day in September.

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Purple conf flower and wood asters

'Zuni' STILL blooming

Sedum

Autumn Sedum

Yellow iris

Unknown Buddleja

Lantana

Better Boy Tomato

Rose of Sharon 'Double Chiffon'

Cleome

Lantana 'Miss Huff'

Vernoica

Verbena on a stick

Lily

Zinnias

Tea olive - oh, does she smell nice!

Purple basil

Red Bed vignette

Rain lilies

Lycorius radiata

Yucca gloriaso

Pink Peace

Malvavisus arboreus

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Dwarf Joe Pye weed

Thyme

'Black Magic' Elephant Ear

Iris

Brown Turkey fig

Snail Vine

Cana 'Bangle Tiger'

Yucca gloriaso almost ready to bloom

Lycorius radiata

Castor Beans

Elephant ear 'Black Magic'

Lily from Becky Heath of Brent and Becky's Bulbs

Hardy Begonia

Tansey

Helen Yoest
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August 2009, Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day

August 15, 2009 at 1:33 pm · Filed under Garden Bloggers Bloom Day

Once again, Helen’s Haven in Raleigh, NC looks around the garden for Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day. Carol at May Dreams Gardens started this as a nod to Elizabeth Lawrence. Here’s my nod to Carol. Enjoy!

Miss Huff Lantana

Society garlic (Tulbaghia violacea)

Snail vine - ready for fist bloom

Drummondii

Black eyed Susans (Rudbeckia)

Limelight hydrangea (Hydrangea paniculata)

Knock out rose

Obedient Plant (Physostegia)

'Double Violet' Rose of Sharon

White wood aster (Aster Eurybia divaricata

Rudbeckia hirta

Purple cone flower (Echineaca)

Shasta Daisey

Basil

Tansy (Tanacetum vulgare)

'Chiffon' Rose of Sharon - was suppose to be 'Double Violet'

Canna - variety unknown

'Diane' Rose of Sharon

'Stairway to Heaven' Cl. Rose Flowers yes, foilage nope!

Bronze fennel (Foenicuium vulgare)

Sweet Autumn Clematis (Clematis terniflora)

Bottle Tree - always in bloom

Gardenia 'Radicans'

'Zuni' Crape Mrytle (Lagersterois indica)

'Zuni' Crape Mytle (Lagersterois indica)

Candy Corn Plant (Cuphea micropetala) First blooms of the season

More in bloom that the photo did turn out or I forgot to photograph. Probably others. Hard to see the individual blooms in the mass plantings sometimes.

Fleabane (Erigeron profusion)

Ruellia – pink and purple

Verbenas – Homestead purple, Homestead red, and bonariensis

Pink Vinca

Salvias – blue and black, blue, light purple, hot lips

Zinnas – lots of varieties

Roses – Cl. Don Juan, many others

Dragon wined begonias

‘Natchez’ Crape Myrtle

Unknown Crape Myrtle

Thymes

Sedums

Joe Pye Weed

Golden Rod

Cross vine – a few flowers

Morning glory – volunteer

Rain lilies

‘Red Shift’ Coreopsis

Germander

Crinums – How could I forget the crinums?

Russian Sage

Cleome

Bee Balm

Candy Lily

Buddlejas

Dahlaias

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Helen Yoest
Gardening With Confidence

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July 2009 Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day at Helen’s Haven

July 15, 2009 at 2:42 am · Filed under Garden Bloggers Bloom Day ·Tagged Gardening With Confidence.com, Helen's Haven, Helen's Haven Garden Blogger's Bloom Day

Some of the Mixed Border at Helen's Haven

A couple Cross Vine Blossoms saying Hey

Sorgum, cleome

Tiger Lily

Gardenia 'Radicans'

Crepe Mrytle variety unknown

Crepe Mrytle 'Natchez'

Alyssium

Daylily variety unknown

Lily pertending she's a cucumber. Shown here with Aster's crop

Stokesia laevis 'Peachies Pick'

Heliotropium amplexicaule

Hydrangea 'Limelight'

Rudbeckia, probably Goldstrum

Crepe Mrytle Dynomite

Volunteer vinca

Sedums

Blooming early - Society garlic

Buddleja 'White Ball'

Eupatorium purpureum 'Little Joe'

Verbena bonarienis

Zephyranthes White Rain Lily with no rain in 3 weeks

Asclepias tuberosa

Dragon winged begonia

Purple cone flower - missed by the bunnies

Veronica spicata 'Goodness Grows'

Lantana 'Miss Huff'

Rudbeckia 'Hirta'

Hibiscus 'Rose Mallow'

Can anyone id this Crepe Myrtle for me? About 6'H x 8'W

6 foot Crepe Myrtle unknown variety

Knock out rose Radrazz

Lily of the Nile

Blossom of a Bangle Tiger

Purple Salvia

One last Oakleaf Hydrangea

Monarda and bee butt

Zinnia

A surprise find - a cosmo the bunnies must have missed

Rose of Sharon 'Double Violet'

Shasta Daisy

Buddleja 'Honeycomb'

Cl. Rose Stairway to Heaven

By Helen Yoest
Gardening With Confidence

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June 2009 Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day at Helen’s Haven

June 15, 2009 at 6:59 am · Filed under Garden Bloggers Bloom Day ·Tagged Garden Bloggers Bloom Day, Helen's Haven

The universe says summer is six days away. I say it’s already here in Raleigh. While we haven’t maxed out on day length, we are in the thick of the heat.

Once again, we look around the garden for Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day. Carol at May Dreams Gardens started this as a nod to Elizabeth Lawrence. Here’s my nod to Carol. Enjoy!

There were many surprises – flowers that should be past, but seem to be hanging on. I use this as a opportunity to journal what’s blooming today. As such, I use large photos to be examined and not a collage. It makes a great reference.

Oh, please don’t hate me because I’m blooming beautiful!

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May 2009 Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day – Helen’s Haven

May 14, 2009 at 10:15 pm · Filed under Garden Bloggers Bloom Day

Last week, it sure seemed like summer was here to stay. This week in Raleigh, we experienced a very nice spring again.

Once again, we look around the garden for Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day. Carol at May Dreams Gardens started this as a nod to Elizabeth Lawrence. Here’s my nod to Carol. Enjoy!

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Well, I tried to get them all up. I’ll let these represent the rest. I hope you enjoyed this visit to Helen’s Haven and return often. Helen’s Haven is a wildlife habitat, sustainable and organic garden on an half acre lot in Raleigh, NC

Helen Yoest

Gardening With Confidence

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March 2009 Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day – Helen’s Haven

March 15, 2009 at 8:29 am · Filed under Garden Bloggers Bloom Day

It is cold and rainy in Raleigh, NC today. But we do have blooms!

Once again, we look around the garden for Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day. Carol at May Dreams Gardens started this as a nod to Elizabeth Lawrence. Here’s my nod to Carol. Enjoy!

Patio Peach

Ornamental Plum

Peris Valley Valentine

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More hellebores

Winter Honeysuckle

Camellia - one of many

Candytuff

Redbud from afar

Redbud

Pansies

Edgeworthia

Southern Belle double hellebore

Snow Fountain Cherry

New Double hellebore

Vinca minor

Winter Daphne

Forsythia in traffic stopping full bloom

A quince in its 2nd year

Daffs abound

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Crocus still coming

Veronical Georgina

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Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day – February at Helen’s Haven

February 15, 2009 at 9:53 am · Filed under Garden Bloggers Bloom Day ·Tagged Gardening With Confidence, Helen Yoest, Helen's Haven Garden Blogger's Bloom Day

Finally, a few are opening. The spent much of the winter ready to bloom.

Finally, a few are opening. They spent much of the winter ready to bloom.

My husband is looking at me like I’m nuts. It is a Sunday morning and I’m at my computer like its Christmas morning. I’m so excited to see all the blooms across the country. Carol at May Dreams Gardens started Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day. This day allows us all to see what is going on elsewhere, but it also organizes me to reference what is blooming on this one day of each month. I’m already anticipating how February 2009 will compare with February 2010.

When I read other GBBDs, the first thing I want to know is WHERE YOU ARE. What is your gardening zone? This grounds me. It not only puts me in a place, it allows me to learn what is happening now in various zones. As such, for those who need to know this as well, I’m in Raleigh, North Carolina, zone 7b.

It is confusing out there. We have had the worst winter, yet the Forsythia started to bloom already, so has the vinca minor. Both usually bloom around my birthday, March 3. So what gives? Who knows. As I look around the gardens while I do this photo shoot, I notice a lot of winter burn. This winter took it’s tole on Helen’s Haven and Helen too.

This February Gold was the first rise, others soon to follow

This February Gold was the first to rise, others soon to follow

Galanthus love

Look at those freckles!

Just kicking off to a good Hellebore season

Finally, the Edgeworthia are opening. The flower heads were displayed since fall

The Forsythia will be in full bloom in about 10 days. I love this rangly thang

Vinca minors are popping up everywhere. This is why I let it grow.

These two Tommies are closed because it is still early. They will open up their little eyes to 500 other friends.

After I posted this, I found a Vernocia ‘Georgia’ and something else which I’ve already forgotten. I’m loosing it, so what’s new?

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January 2009 Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day – Helen’s Haven

January 14, 2009 at 6:43 pm · Filed under Garden Bloggers Bloom Day ·Tagged Garden Bloggers Bloom Day, Helen's Haven

Oh, no! It’s a puny showing for January 2009, Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day. To add more value to the winter walk, I added a few more categories: Yello Yellow, Brilliant Berries, Valuing Variegation, Regarding Reds and Looking Ahead – those plants getting ready to bloom.

Thanks go to Carol/ May Dreams Gardens for starting Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day 2 years ago next month – well done.

If you are visiting this post and are participating as well, please let me know so I don’t miss seeing yours.

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