Mid-Atlantic Gardening: FIRST FLOWERS SUMMER!!! Mid Summer Edition, 4 by CatMint20906

CatMint20906 wrote:
Seq, those dahlias are beautiful! can't believe you still have Penstemon blooming. Mine seems all done for the season.

Gita, what beautiful blooms! Your cardinal flower and black & blue salvia are sure big and bloomful! I'm with Seq--to me the front looks great and not too busy at all.

Wind, what beautiful lilies and I love that peach colored daylily! I've been growing sunflowers this year, too, and totally loving them.

Managed to get outside and walk around the garden a bit today:

1) My first pot marigold (Calendula officinalis) bloom! This seeded so well and shoots came up and grew large, but it has taken *forever* to get a blossom.
2) Agastache 'Golden Jubilee' (from Donner) blooming with the phlox 'David'
3) I'm really loving this profusion of blossoms: the orange cosmos, crocosmia 'Lucifer', and Rudbeckia fulgida
4) I finally got a poppy bloom! I can't tell you how many poppy seeds from Critter I sowed this spring. This is the first one! :-) It's more of a California golden poppy than a traditional red poppy. Just another reminder that unfortunately poppies like lupine prefer the west coast to my backyard (sigh)
5) Rudbeckia, cosmos, speedwell, marigold



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