JUNE Blooms

type 2

All red type, my favorite. These plants are a nice size, 12'' and needed no special treatment. I just sowed them into the bed this spring. My only regret is that I thinned them and got rid of most of them. They transplant very well too.

Very nice blooms, Cheryl! Did you ever figure out what your mystery plant was??

LOL, um yea...Coriopsis tinctoria, tall variety.

My echinacea tennesseensis 'Rocky Top' has started blooming. I winter sowed these in Feb, 2010 and nursed them all summer last year. They came back this spring and are loaded with buds.

I have SO been enjoying seeing all the beautiful and varied flowers growing in your gardens. I'll take some pics of mine tomorrow.
Drthor, quite the phallic sunflowers, hmmm?? :)
Skbryan, what is that first bloom? It looks like a pink flower in the middle of a caladium leaf. Beautiful and unusual.
What is cardon? Guess I'll look that up. Another unusual one...
Love the coreopsis and now I MUST get some daylilies! They have such beautiful colors and shapes. Love that Tiger Lily and all the others.
Thanks for sharing your wonderful gardens! Janet

Anna, remember when we went to see those at Pappy Elkins park? Well they have destroyed most of the wildflower area and put in a drill site, sooo sad.
Josephine.

Yes, winter sown.

Ugh! What a shame. That was such a lovely area!
Well, I might have to get in on that seed exchange next year.

Believe it or not, i found the picture of the two of us in the field of Blackeyed Susans and Monarda.
Remember that?

That's great picture! You two look like it was a wonderful day.
C

It was, but sadly that field doesn't have flowers any more, however, some of the wildflowers are coming back in spite of them planting bermuda grass in the area.

yellow trumpet vine on barbed wire fence

in the meadow

This beautiful cosmos bloomed this morning.

As did this one. I don't remember having this color in my garden last year and all my cosmos are reseeders from last year.

This little daylily bloomed today. It's another one that came in a box from Sam's.

Lastly for this morning, I found these little Brazos Penstemons blooming on some tiny plants!

is anyone growing phlomis russeliana sticky Jerusalem Sage? what can you tell me about it?.....I bought some at a close out sale and haven't a clue

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Is that the same as Jerusalem sage? (not sticky?)
Carolina phlox (thanks Josephine)

Monarda Jacob Cline...I didn't realize how tall this would be!

volunteer passion vine

Is that the same as Raspberry Monarda? I got mine from Sheila and it's just starting to bloom.

I got some raspberry M from Sheila or you one year which is in a shadier area. I bought the "named" one in the pic. I can't compare because the conditions are different. Maybe they are the same.

'Jacob Cline' at my house is dark red....all the pics above sure look like the 'rasberry wine' monarda. I forget who gave me the 'J Cline'. It is not as rampant as the
'rw'.

I may have to be sending a heads up to the ones I traded mine with.

Daylily and Coneflowers

Lots of flowers

the fragrance in the morning is just intoxicating

This is the Monarda I bought at the Dallas Arboretum last year. "Grand Parade" Monarda dwarf.

J. Turner said that is the hardiest one, no fungus and lots of flowers .... I luuuuuuvvvveee it

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This is my front yard.
Look at those huge liliums on the rigth side of the angel ... NO SO BAD for 100 degrees weather ... yuk !

here they are

My CARDON is starting to bloom.
This is the first year ... the plants survived the Super Bowl weather and now it is blooming just amazing.

CARDOON

Tiger Liliums

The cardon reminds me of a thistle bloom

Tennessee Coneflower ("Rocky Top")

Daylily 'San Antonio Firecracker' (a very prolific bloomer that also reblooms and sets seed) and California poppies.

My first year for cosmos. Got a free pack of seeds and just sprinkled them on top of my pine bark nuggets and watered in. So lucky and happy they came up!!