Specialty Gardening: Help me plan a cottage garden!, 0 by peony8

peony8 wrote:
My cottage garden is coming along. I took the attached picture during the one day of sun we had in June (it rained that night, so I can still say it rained EVERY DAY in June!).

I am bummed about all this rain. You'd think we lived in the Pacific Northwest. The poppies have been trying to bloom, but heavy downpours shred the petals. The daisies are just now opening up, but I am struggling with powdery mildew on my monarda and phlox. I sprayed with neem, but I am pretty sure the relentless rain washed that right away.

The only things that are blooming right now are viola, geraniums, daisies, alium, and that alpine poppy is still kicking butt, where the other poppies aren't as strong.

Nothing else, but I don't yet know what to expect. All the other foliage looks very good, and is either getting nice and tall (delphinium) or thick and bushy (campanula, lavender, hollyhock, yarrow, coreopsis, anemone, etc.) So I am not sure if anything else will bloom this summer.