June blooms

Finally got some flower photos taken. This is one of the new daylilies I just got a couple of weeks ago. It's Spacecoast Citrus Kick. This was one of the bonuses sent by the seller.

Potentilla Melton Fire. Hard to capture the color - it's peachier than shown.

Clustered bellflowers. You can see how pretty they are when a nice big clump is blooming.

The roses are balling some from the rain. This is a very old moss rose - smells wonderful - with climber New Dawn.

Not so close up, New Dawn in most of the photo, the moss rose to the left.

Stellas in a container

Iron Maiden penstemon

Jethro Tull coreopsis

Summer Solstice oenothera tetragona

chinese forget me not growing thru sedum

Creeping jenny, lamium, sedum in my shade garden

Hydrangea annabelle

The first asiatic of the season

My blossom in the clover patch

hart- great blooms--must be so pretty in your yard right now! I do have a good spot for the CB, I will rip out some of the variegated vinca I've been using as a live mulch until something better came along.
jen do i detect a rock and roll theme?
Is the dreeping jenny the one with te yellow flowers I see in there?
Go right now and give that last blossom a big hug and tell her how precious she is because you will blink and she'll be driving to school by herself...scuse me I need to dab...You must frame that picture

I love the ruffling on Spacecoast Citrus Kick

Yes the creeping Jenny has the yellow flowers.
Funny, didn't realize until I was posting the rock names. I need more to do a rock and roll garden.
Time definitely flies.

Had a few minutes this afternoon to run outside with "big camera"

This is a new Siberian Iris I planted last year, pink :)

All the other SI have already bloomed and are done - this one is a later one I guess :)

Frost Proof Gardenia - still small, but blooming nicely

Got this Daisy last year at Ric & Holly's - just getting ready to open

"Home-made" Evening Stock - the fragrance is awesome :)

Darn hart!!!!!

Man! This June flowers Post just popped up! Such pretty pictures! I want them ALL!!!!
Looks so nice the way they all are mixed and naturalized.....

I especially love the mix of your blue Bellflowers with the Rose Campion....Since I have both of them in the "YUK" bed anyway--I will have to coax some into the area where my Bellflowers are now blooming....

Pretty, pretty pictures----and your personal "flower" is adorable!!!!! Nice shot!

Hugs---Gita

OK! I just went out and took a bunch of photos of whatever I have blooming.....Brace yourselves...

This is my first Asiatic Lily to bloom....every year..

This is second--at least this year....

This is my old Carpet Rose that I had to move to plant my Knock-Out Rose last Summer....
The carpet Rose got moved to a front-corner bed where my Tall Red Hibiscus "lives"....

NOT blooms--but here is one grouping of Coleus I grew from cuttings....Looks nice! They will be much bigger in a month or so....

Please overlook the green, plastic fencing you see here and there----it is so the rabbits won't eat everything i have planted...They ahave already done a lot of damage....Like--the wispy green plants you see in front of the Coleus are my Dwarf-Red Coreopsis--which already had tall stalks on them----CHOMP! and they are gone. They are now re-growing....OH, well--gotta be positive--they will be bushier as a result...

OK! off to more blooms----
This is one of 2 Geraniums that spent the Winter--all dried up in my basement.....Lookie now!

Here is my Endless Summer Hydrangea--BLUE this year!
I tried hard to feed it all kinds of acid stuff......It worked!
Love the ball-shape this shrub has. Of course--I cut off some of the straggling branches to contain it in the fall.....

Here is the same Hydrangia in 2008--ALL pink!

Here it is in 2009---slowly turning BLUE!

edited to say that--maybe--next year--it will be a nice, deep BLUE!
Just have to keep at it!!!!

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These are Heliotropes.....still small--as I just planted them recently.
These are sold under the "Specialty annuals"--at a price of $3.00-$3.50.

*****Chantelle--IF you are reading this--this is one VERY fragrant plant!!!! Just to die for!
And--the most beautiful blue--ever!

Marching on------

I bought a couple of MP.'s of these annual Dianthus.....I just LOVE these!
Such a variety of colors! They are doing really well in all this heat.....

When these are done flowering--cut all the top part off and it will re-grow and bloom again in late Summer--early Fall....

Here is the deep pink--edged in white one--next to a small Zinnia starting to bloom--as well as a still-young Dusty Miller....

Here is another pink one--splotched with a bit of white.....

This one is a pure red one.....

This one is the deep velvety red one....just kissed with a bit of pink--which gives the red a lot more depth.....

And--they also come in pure white!

Just think! ALL this in a market pack!!!
What a deal for colorful border plantings.....
Yeah! They ARE annuals--but, sometimes, they do decide to come back--so don't dig them up and throw them away!
Perhaps--they have just a touch of perennial in their genes---as there are perennial Dianthus.....

Here are Jill's "Not Chocolate Daisies" (Heliopsis???)---just opened up.

Not as big a clump as I had hoped for--it IS their 3rd Summer here--BUT! They ARE in my "YUK" bed--so not the greatest location. I am just grateful for anything that grows and blooms there.

Of course, I DO just plant hardy, drought-tolerant survivor-type plants in this bed.....and I do enjoy seeing the bloom and thrive.....Amazing!

These are hart's Clustered Bellflowers--also in my "YUK" bed-----and I seem to also have had a yukky exposure!

They are doing well---I just have to water and water this bed---twice as often as any other.....
THE TREE takes it all!!!!! Well! It IS 45-50 feet tall!!!! and 45 years old.....Let's give what is due to the "senior"
plantings! It repays well--by the shade it provides. When i turn the corner of my sunny West side of my house--the temps, immediately, drop by 10 degrees......

Thank you TREE!!! But I hate your roots everywhere!!!!

Another plant thriving right next to the tree--in an elevated bed--are the Northern Sea Oats....
Here they are still just growing. NO oat heads yet!

Had plenty of them at the Swap--Not too many takers.....YES! They ARE notorious self-seeders! Where do you think I get all these seedlings from????? They are ALL in my "YUK" bed--right next to the bed the oats are in!
You CAN just cut off all the dried oat seed-heads in late Fall and prevent this from happening.....

My God! Every time I look in this bed--these Oat seedlings are coming up--everywhere!
I am on a mission--ERADICATE THEM ALL!!!!! Dig them up--pot them up--and pass them on to someone else....

Note to any of you that took these--or have these. DO NOT PLANT THESE IN--OR NEXT TO--A FLOWER BED!!!! You will be sorry!

However--planted in an out-of-the-way spot, by a pond--where they can "do their thing"--they will be wonderful!

edited to say--that that tall-stemmed plant to the right--in the big pot--is the "Tomatillo" I am growing ONE of--for the first time....from seed...I was told by the woman that gave me the seeds--how big it will grow....
GEEZ! This is just in it's adolescence!!!!! I think I am in for a "bush".......:o)



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Here is one of the many Rose Campions blooming away in my "YUK" bed--and many other places....
Just love the bright fuchsia color--it "pops" into your sight from a distance....

Will mix these with hart's Bellflowers because in the picture hart posted---they looked so wonderful together!

Here all some Stellas--also thriving in my "YUK" bed.....
They have been here for a long time. I have divided them--and re-planted them--and they just march on......

edited to point out that the evergreen-looking stems showing in this picture are from my, rather large, Rosemary shrub.
Also--happily living in my "YUK" bed.....Life goes on for those that are survivors!!!!!!!

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