Anchorage Daily News

Slowly but surely the season is unfolding into one with smaller plants and later blooms. I am sure everyone is experiencing the late bloomers and cooler weather that the Alaska Botanical Garden is. Watering very deeply will help the plants mature and bloom as they should, but not when they should -- everything is three to four weeks later than normal.

Here's what's blooming this week at the garden:

Primrose (Primula florindae, P. waltonii)

Columbine (Aquilegia "Lime Frost")

Sedge (Carex gmelini)

Himalayan blue poppy (Meconopsis betonicifolia, M. x Sheldonii)

Snowdrop windflower (Anemone sylvestris)

Scotch rose (Rosa spinosissima "Scotch Rose")

English daisy (Bellis perennis "Pomponette")

Arctic poppy (Papaver nudicaule)

Delphinium (Delphinium "Pennant")

Fringed bleeding heart (Dicentra eximia)

Shasta daisy (Leucanthemum x superbum "Silver Princess")

Meadow rue (Thalictrum aquilegifolium "Thundercloud")

Peony (Paeonia "Paula Fay," P. tenuifolia)

Poppy (Papaver albo-roseum)

Cranesbill (Geranium pyrenaicum, G. himalayense)

Dianthus (Dianthus gratianopolitan "La Bouboule," D. alpinus)

Iris (Iris setosa "White form," I. barbata nana)

Lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis)

Purple mullien (Verbascum phoeniceum)

Chives (Allium schoenoprasum)

Catmint (Nepeta "Walker's Low")

Cilantro (Coriandrum sativum "Santo")

Sweet cicely (Myrrhis odorata)

Archangel (Angelica archangelica)

Caraway (Carum carvi)

Anise hyssop (Agastache foeniculum)

Yellow archangel (Lamium galeobdolon "Herman's Pride")

Daylily (Hemerocallis middendorffii)

Jacob's ladder (Polemonium caeruleum "Blue Whirl," P. caeruleum "White Whirl," P. acitiflorum)

Eskimo potato (Hedysarum alpinum)

Northern green bog orchid (Platanthera hyperborea)

Wild geranium (Geranium erianthum) White form

Goatsbeard (Aruncus sylvestris)

Barbara Miller is the senior horticulturist and Shop-in-the-Garden manager at the Alaska Botanical Garden, a nonprofit public garden dedicated to enhancing the beauty and value of plant material through education, preservation, recreation and research. To get involved in garden activities, send an e-mail to garden@alaskabg.org or visit the Web site at www.alaskabg.org.

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