July has arrived! Post your blooms here!
This daylily bloomed by my little flag I'd put out in my flower bed.
Black eyed Susan
Happy zinnias
Hot July Blooms 2016
Just a few random July blooms. The last rain revived a lot of plants.
What kind of nymphs are those on your milkweed?
Found this bird-planted pigeonberry blooming along the backyard fenceline. I'm always happy to see it.
John Fannick has started blooming. I always enjoyed visiting Fannick's nursery when I was a kid.
Flame Acanthus
Texas Sage
Milkweed bugs
Are they friend or foe?
Foe of milkweed seeds but not other plants. I don't notice they do much to my milkweed plants. Neither the tropical or native.
That's very interesting. I'll have to keep an eye on my milkweed for them.
Cheryl, your rock garden looks beautiful and I just adore the Heart-leaf Hibiscus.
There is such a simplicity and beauty in that shade of red.
The petunias are blooming!
Native petunia and Katie's Pink ruellia
Beautiful Petunias Stephanie, they are so reliable.
The sage is blooming, too. I thought it was a bit too early for it, but obviously it has a mind of its own.
Oh! that is so pretty, don't you just love it?
I do. So is native petunia native, or is it mexican petunia?
The Wild petunia than Stephanie has is Ruellia nudiflora and that is native.
The Mexican petunia Ruellia brittoniana is not native but very pretty also.
The purple one is the native petunia and it freely reseeds everywhere but is very easy to pull out and/or share with friends.
I find that plant very invasive. It's spread everywhere in my yard and it has deep roots. I pull it up constantly. I also don't think it blooms for a long period. I know people experience plants differently but that's one I wish I had never planted here.
I didn't plant mine here but it continually re-invades split rail fenced portions of my lot, I think the seeds are coming in on the wind. Doesn't show up inside the privacy fence
Cactus in bloom today.
Second bloom on the fame flowers.
I loved my fame flowers, but it died. :(
Cheating, that dahlia is a June bloom. Today it has buds and dead heads and a toad in the pot waiting for that grasshopper to come back. The rest are July, lilies tomatoes and Texas star hibiscus (photo does NOT do it justice)
They need sun, dryness and low nutrient gravelly soil. Potting soil is not their friend and they won't grow in a normal mulched bed with lots of organic rich soil. If we get together again one day I'll bring you a new pot.
You're so sweet, Cheryl! Maybe I'll put it in a pot with gravelly soil.
Gorgeous flowers Cheryl.
I've got a small pot all set up Stephanie. Just add water, very little water.
Thank you for the tips!
Thank you for the lilies Cheryl! if you would like to look at a variety of more or less somewhat invasive bog plants and mosquitofish some time, or if you need plants or critters for science class I get the occasional tadpole, crayfish, and my collection of bogs is pretty good.
I would love to see your bogs!
If I get them sorted out I can maybe post some pictures. But they do tend to be BIG. Spider lilies - the white bogged variety, iris - yellow purple and white but I can't tell which are purple and which are white on the "flag" varieties, a couple I don't know the names of. pickerel rush,lizard tongue, may have some variegated rush left, used to have parrots feather but I think the anacharis kind of took over as the elderberry tree grew up, I never know what is in the keyhole pond. It's tiny and crammed.
I wish I had room for that.
well I bought my house for the 2 lots it sits on, not because it was a great house, but it was functional, and the soil and water are good. Had to have a riding lawn mower the first 5 years too
A hybrid passion flower, new this year. This is its first flower. I'm hoping it's truly hardy.
That is really pretty Cheryl.
Some Blooms from this morning. Plants are pouting in the heat.
What is the first picture and is the flower in the last picture growing in a crack or a pot?
Engelmanns Daisy and yes that little annular pops up all over, even in cracks.
I don't have much to show as a lot of plants got fried. I am pleased that I followed Josephine's instructions and repotted a Flame Acanthus in a l-a-r-g-e pot. leaving the other Flame Acanthus in my only bed. Last night I saw my 1st bloom on it. Yay! However, Miss Clumsy here managed to knock a few tiny branches (aka twigs) off. Maybe I'll stick 'em in a styrofoam cup and see what happens.
The Gregg's Mist isn't putting out many blooms but it is spreading everywhere. I've tried talking to it but it's not listening.
Now that I think about it, the lantana is blooming like crazy. And my Turk's cap never quits.
I have what I think is a bronze fennel in a pot slightly sunk into the garden bed. Last night I saw a tiny carbon copy of it at least a foot or more away from that potted one. I also discovered a thyme that was blooming like crazy. Didn't even know I had it.
Maybe I'll brave the heat and the skeeters to snap a few pics. And then I'll ask for advice about cutting some plants back.
Newton, I mean Cheryl, I love your passion flower. Mine are fried, mostly from neglect, but I'll see if I can coax them a little to keep growing.
So good to hear from you Joan, don't be such a stranger, your posts are always a lot of fun.
Cheryl would you like some bogged ajuga? Bloom in spring and love wet roots, overwintered outdoors in ground and bogged in greenhouse. Stays small.