Holly, your bed and boxes are looking nice. Big difference when things start to fill in.
I get most of my pictures in the a.m. while I'm waiting for my ibuprofen to kick in. Walking around the yard taking pictures is also a way I access which garden chores need to make the "to do list" for the day.
July flower pictures.
Beautiful pictures Chris and Holly. Holly, my Ornamental Sweet Potato vines are doing quite well. I have them in containers on front deck. They have become more bushy vs. a long vine. I like them both ways. Thanks for sharing them with me
Chris, John seems to be spending quite a lot of time these days trying to name and then label his many day lilies. One of these days maybe he can be of assistance to you while naming yours.
Have a good week coming up all.
Ruby
Holly & Lady, Your flowers are so lovely!!!!!! They are making me so jealous. This year I decided to put all of my time and $ into filling my perennial beds and imposed a "No annuals" rule. My lovely pots are languishing in the basement!!!!!! Thanks for sharing yours!
This is either Rubrum or Stargazer, I planted both. Oh, the fragrance!
This is Monarda Jacob Kline. To the right it Russian sage. On the left is Scabiosa Alba. In the background is my first Red Cardinal Lobelia bloom starting to open.
This is my favorite Hosta Bloom. I'm pretty sure it's Bressingham Blue.
A closeup of the Sage. There were bees all around it.
Lady, Your Daylilies are so beautiful. I especially like that yellow apricot blend one.
Stormyla, I tried that but it didn't work. I bought tons of plants through the co-ops thinking that I wouldn't get as many annuals. Well I have a lot more perennials but I still spent just as much money on the annuals. LOL Your gardens are wonderful.
The first of my Daturas are blooming, I planted double yellow, white and some purple that I haven't seen yet. Of course the whites are what are blooming first.
Well I have finally gotten a few shots of my Daylilies, I found the tags but not quite sure which plants they go with. Ruby and John gave me Prairie Moonlight and Orange Sherbet so pictures of those whould be in this group somewhere.
I received a few other unnamed Daylilies from a trade 2 years ago and they will bloom for the first time this year.
I also have a very pretty yellow (that I thought might be the Prairie Moonlight) but it wasn't quite open earlier and the heavy rain storm that passed by a couple of hours ago did a job on it. I'll post a picture when I get another bloom open on that plant.
A few more
Last one for now.
Stormy, under what conditions are you growing your R. Sage? I don't seem to have any luck with it. I have 3 plants that I bought from Bluestone that I am holding on to for now, need to be planted.
Here is a red Daylily, looks good but if it rains on it, it spots up. Now do all reds do that?
Here is a pink one, The picture doesn't come out as the real pink that it is. And when I say pink I mean the real soft baby pink.
Holly, those are real pretty Daylilies.
Here is a close up of "Golden Boy" it is the first one to start blooming after Stella.
Four O'clock
"Coronation Gold" Achillea
The first flower to open on my Starfire Phlox
Blue star Creeper , this one can be walked on.
And Swan River Daisy I grew from seed.
And the foxglove I rescued from the compost pile is still blooming!
Gloriosa daisies, These reseed all over my garden some I leave, some I dig up and give away and some I just pull if they get in the way.
Lady, That Foxglove is gorgeous and I quite like those Gloriosa Daisies. The R. sage is in full sun under a tall conifer. There were 4 but only 2 made it and they were sickly the first year. I recently planted some more in part shade and I haven't noticed any growth on them.
I don't know the name of this daylily, but I planted a lot of them because it said they could take part shade and are rebloomers. They've been blooming for about 2 weeks and still have lots more buds.
Pretty daylilies! Holly, that prairie one is gorgeous. Storm, same for that hosta. Is the bloom as large as it looks?
Chris, we've had heavy rain for two evenings now and it kind of washed the color off of all my red daylilies.
Do you know what kind of foxglove that is? I love the dark color.
Thanks, Hart. Yes, each plant has about 5 flower stalks and the flower clusters are about 7 or 8 inches. The hostas are quite large, but not the size of S & S
Balloon flowers. Lots of fun.
More July flowers
Very nice, Claypa. What is that white flower on the left in front of the Hollyhocks?
I think you might mean the stalk of black hollyhock seedpods that weren't deadheaded when I was away last week. Right above a daylily?
'Baby Tiger Paws', really small.
'Daring Deception'. At least the tag says so. Maybe I was 'Deceived'
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Wow, I've never seen a hosta with so many blooms and such big ones. I'm kind of a hosta newbie though.
Hart, I'm also a hosta newbie and I have one or two other varieties that are putting out 6 to 8 flower stalks. But so far the Bressingham is the most spectacular bloom. I've been quite surprised.
Yes, Claypa, that's what I was referring to.
I had hollyhocks for years. Started with 1 a neighbor gave me and I just let it re-seed. Must have been @20 of them. They were on a protected side of the house and some would get @6' tall. Then about 4 years ago they got a blight and I've never had 1 come up since. And I don't even see them for sale or I probably would "adopt" one.
I think Foxglove are so pretty but they won't grow for me. Poppies either.
I took pics over the weekend that I need to post. Luckily we have had enough rain this year that I'm not having to water and plants are drying up.
Now if the green tomatoes would just ripen!!!!
Hart, My foxgloves are from a long time ago, one will just pop up and if I can keep DH from mowing one down I will. I could save you some seeds from that one.
I was wondering about the red daylilies and the rain, now you confirmed it, red & rain don't mix.
Quilter, I had to try 3 different varieties of poppies before I found one that would grow here. This year I shook the seeds out of the pods all over the ground after they bloomed. We'll see if they come back. I do have quite a few that are still growing foliage, but no buds in sight. I do believe they are yet a 4th variety.
My Hollyhocks were beautiful last year, but none reseeded. At my prior garden, they showed up every year. Maybe my mulch is too thick.
Qwilter, I have perennial hollyhocks I was planning to save seeds from this year because everyone who has seen them wants some. Be glad to save you some seeds, and you too Stormyla.
Stormyla, I think most poppies need light to germinate so you might be surprised how successful scattering will be.
Chris, I have some foxglove seeds I got this year, I just had no time for doing seeds this year. By the way, I think I may finally get some seeds from the blue centaurea this year for you.
Thank you, Hart. My foxglove were also beautiful, but they didn't come back. I chalked it up to the Juglone. But it seems that foxglove aren't supposed to be bothered by juglone.
I planted foxglove plants a few years ago in a really dry bed. Got lots of babies the next year and I moved those to a spot with more shade and moisture. I've gotten practically no self sowing there. I know there were plenty of seeds on the plants but the babies may be getting crowded out by other plants there.
I tried to dig some of the hollyhock babies for the swap this year because someone, Sally?, said they wanted some. They won't survive unless they're really tiny plants and these were apparently too big because they all shriveled up and died. They have a long tap root and it's impossible to get all the root in my rocky soil if they're larger. Maybe next year I can find some smaller ones.