Hot July Blooms

A new month has started, so here's a new thread! What's blooming in your hot garden right now?

Dwarf cosmos and purple coneflowers

Ok....monarda 'rasberry wine'....

My Pride of Barbados!

Texas Star Hibiscus

Blue Rim Lisianthus

Anna Apples

And....Zinnias!

Beautiful pictures!!! Stephanie, Sheila, and Sweetmommy welcome to the Texas forum.
Josephine.

Thanks Frostweed!
Does anyone on here know about Cherry Trees? I bought a Minnie Royal & a Royal Lee, which are supposed to withstand our heat but the leaves are developing spots. Any thoughts? I water regularly.

How could I forget the Morning Glories?!

Butterfly Pea Vine

Mexican Oleander

Took off to run errands earlier and didn't say I loved the cosmos and coneflowers Stephanie!
Welcome to Tx Forum Sweet! Your plants look great. I especially love the zinnia with the Giant ST on it! As for the leaf from your cherry tree, I bet jujubees will be around to comment he grows a lot of fruit trees. Looks to me like one of my plants that I water then the sun hits before it dries. But he will be the one to believe. LOL!

Hi Yak, nice pics, guess things down your way are more used to the heat than ours up here. Natives are surviving but a lot of things are suffering.

Texas Lilac...Vitex

Thank you Shiela! Pretty pics Yakmon! My Butterfly Pea vine was lost to the freezes and I miss that intense color.

Sheila, it is hot, but humid on the coast and I am cheating a little...watering when I see things drooping. I actually just planted the pea vine today. I hope it lives. The color is amazing. I can't wait for my empress candle plant to bloom. It has buds all over it and has grown about 6 feet in the last 2 months.

Those monarda plants are beautiful!

I saw some showers popping up on the radar to the west of us today, but nothing on the immediate coast. I hate to say it, but we need a tropical system to dump a ton of rain on us to break this drought. I just hope it isn't a major hurricane. I just got a new roof after our hail storm in January, so I am not looking forward to paying any more deductibles!

Russell

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Beautiful blooms everyone!

Welcome to the Texas forum, Sweet!

I understand Russell, the hail and high winds always seem to come with the rain in our summers.

Your combos are always so nice Stephanie. Love the POB, Sheila...mine didn't make it. Those are very intense colors Sweetmommy. Welcome! And the blues! Wow to Yakmon too.

Anna, I have POB that I've been nursing since last fall. I was thinking of sending it to the compost pile (it's in a container and about 4" tall), but if you'd like it, I'll move it up to a bigger container and try to nurse it through til the next RU. Let me know!

evening pics

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Pretty, Cheryl! I'm surprised your gerberas are still alive!

Yellow Shrimp Plant from Smock a couple of spring RUs ago.

This Turk's Cap has been going crazy this year. I love it and its bright red flowers that I can see from inside my house.

Common Evening Primrose from Josephine is still blooming almost daily.

I don't know what this is (pinkish purple in foreground, but I like it. I am trying to get more wildflowers to grow around the house and found these today. Any ideas what it is?

Russell

Here is another view of it. It is difficult to get the exact color in a picture...this one looks a little different - changed the f-stop a bit to avoid the washout from the sun.

Russell

It looks like a type of Phlox cannot be sure which one.

That's what I thought too. It was growing on the side of the road in sandy soil...it has now been relocated to a less harsh environment..haha.

Thanks for the quick response. You are always so helpful!

Russell

You are welcome, glad to be of help.

phlox pilosa. I still have a few stray blooms on mine as well.

Last night's Datura...awesome

This plant is so beautiful on a regular basis. This picture is actually what it looks like on a regular basis. My 3 yr old plant has huge, dramatic white trumpets which open so quickly at dusk that you see them twirl apart. A light lemony scent is evident. Attractive to hawk moths, which look like hummingbirds at night with landscape backlighting. Not a particularly pretty plant, but the blooms under a bright moon make it well worth growing. I cut it to the ground in the fall, as the foliage will not take the cold. But, it comes back bigger every year. It reseeds profusely. All parts of this plant are very poisonous.

Beauty of a plant Kathy!!
Funny that I thought about when I saw your picture with the massive number of blooms.....
We used to have a thread running forever of items in the pictures, trying to top the number the last person posted! You would have had a good one there for 40 something at least. I didn't take count, not that obsessive anymore.

Zone 8b, Heat Zone 9 deep East, TX on Lake Sam Rayburn lake (God's country)
Stephanietx, in Zone 8a, Ft. Worth, TX I like your idea about inquiring what we have "blooming in July, 2011: My bloomers are as follows:
1. Althea
2. Morning Glory
3. Bogainvilla
4. Clematis
5. Coral Honeysuckle
6. Crape Myrtle
7. Canna
8. Datura
9. Four O'Clock
10. Geranium
11. Hibiscus
12. Honeysuckle
13. Lantana
14. Mum
15. Moss Rose
16. Mexican Petunia
17. Mandevilla
18. Nearly-Wild Rose
19. Oleander
20. Purple Queen
21. Passion Flower
22. Plumbago
23. Petunia
24. Poinsettia-summer, Pea Vine 'Butterfly'
25. Sand Verbina
26. Salvia 'Lady In Red', Sunflower
17. Turk's Cap
18. Tiger Lily, Vincia
19. Winecap
20. Wisteria
21. Zinnia
I have great sandy-loam, acidic soil. Average 48" annual rain. I have other plantings that are subjected to hot afternoon sun after we had our shade trees harvested on our 3 acre homeplace. : (

Impressive list Sudie.....are you having the 100 degree days like we are? We haven't had rain for so long I can't remember the last time. I just came in from outside taking pictures of some things but need to rest now...way too hot to be outside today. Lots of sunburned people tomorrow I bet.

Can you post a pic of sand verbena?

I have blooming 4'oclocks, zinnias, mex. petunia, vinca, geranium, butterfly weed, dianthus, scabiosa, crackerjack marigolds, and sunflowers. Here are sunflowers.

This message was edited Jul 4, 2011 2:44 PM

Nice list of bloomers, Sudie!

Steady, your sunflowers are so pretty! That little pathway looks very inviting.