Show us your July blooms...

My pictures for the day. Finally a gloriosa daisy, red astillbie, daylily, hydranga and white lavender.

Whoops Here's the white lavender.

All pretty! So many flowers right now. These came from the garden tonight. Noid daylily and phlox 'David'

Coneflower and Hydrangea, the front bed, sedum and lily

Clematis,astilbe, back side of lilly as pretty as the front, and the daylillies are fantastic this year. My garden is alive with color right now.

More Daylillies...

So pretty. Love the purple astilbe and the red coneflower.

My garden is alive with the sound of chainsaws right now! Still digging out from the damage caused by the ice storms & roof avalanches. So much hacking has to be done -- the front garden won't look good again till net year. Not to mention the huge bare spot where there used to be a gorgeous Japanese maple.

So keep those vivid pictures coming to remind of what was & will be again!

So sorry you are facing such a mess. I'm chopping thing down because I don't want huge things I can't take care of by myself and making my own mess. LOL

Yes, the daylilies are spectacular this year.....some of my favorites:

Cherry Eyed Pumpkin

Citrix

Kazoo

Outrageous

Wild Horses

Silver Lining

Nelly Moser and rose Bonica

2 year old front yard bed

Those are some beautiful daylilies. The front yard bed is filling is in nicely.

Wow, that Citrix looks too good to be true,

I have had it for only two seasons and it is DEFINITELY one of my new favorites.

A few Dahlia's are starting to bloom.
RED-TBA, Bliss, Bee Happy, Lucca Johanna, & Noid Daylilly

My jackmanii seems very happy in its new location as does the second clematis..can't get to the tag. Lilly to TBA...the scent of this one is heavenly!! DL (fabulous color) & a wee little Hydrangea peeking out over an edge stone which I started from a cutting last summer. She has a lot of growing to do..but worth the wait.

Love that Bee Happy an d white day lily.

A newly opened lily. The hen and chicks are going nuts.

Ellie is doing well this year, staying upright on her own. Give her time, though, and she'll flop to the ground. Inula helenium 'Goliath' - elecampane

July was a great month for color & beauty.. Hope august will continue the same trend in all of our gardens

As always, Bea, you flower photos are amazing and completely blow me away! I love the roses and echinacea!!

Verry pretty!! A few things here. Sedum 'Pool Party' Olearia 'Cheesemanii -- smells great and the lilies the smell is intoxicating!!

A few more.

Bonehead, I have to look into that inula helenium. Very interesting (and pretty) narrow flower petals. I always like something a little different.

Maury, you will need some space for it. The cultivar name 'Goliath' is a give-away. It's about 8' tall, pretty much can stand on her own until it either gets too many blooms or a rain hits. The leaves are also quite large. Would be good in the back of a border, likes the sun.

This is a plant I have in the flowerbed. It came from birdseed I think. Very sharp spikes on the ends of the leaves. Anyone know what it is? In bloom and in bud.

A sunflower from the birdseed also. Blooming amongst the Rudbekia.

Camomille (sp)

Didn't know I posted the first one. Have been working in the long bed on the east side. More than half done.

There is your lily Mauryhill

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More from the long bed. Lots of Hosta and Hellebores going into this bed.

Put some Hostas and Hellebores in here too.

I pulled all the weeds under the deck and left the long grass so the dogs can lay in the shade and graze on the grass.

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OOPs forgot the pic.

Today was all about the Lillies. The last picture is cool. I have never seen this last phase before bloom. Puffed up and ready to open. Wish I had the time to sit and watch and wait..but to much to do do in so little time these days
The yard smells so good too!.

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Hevenly Bea

Willow and BeaHive so many beautiful flowers. Any luck on ID Willow?

I love the color of that blue deck, Willow.
Such fabulous lily pictures, Bea. You have an amazing variety.

Yes, gorgeous. I've not been successful introducing lilies to my beds - for some reason they seem to be very stiff and formal looking next to whatever I put them to. So I'm peeking behind your blooms to see what you have them paired with.

My lillies are mixed in with daylillies and bearded iris and just about everything else. I really like them in the back of my yard right now. It is my trouble spot where the neighbor has never cut his oak trees so it is a very hard spot to get things to grow. 1/2 the bed gets 1/2 day sun at best so I have my flowers up front and planted that wildflower seed in the back portion for now. I actually love the wild flowers there (same as I sent you) .I may just seed the entire bed with them and let the existing plants come up through next year. The wild flowers were a bit shorter than they should be ..but that is ok just to have some color in a shady part of the yard.

This is my latest beauty. A small variety of pineapple lily. Love it. My DS gave me a pot full.

Someone on Plant ID said my thistle thing was Safflower. I'm hoping I can keep it in the flowerbed.

It's an annual so I will look for seeds.

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