Blooming in August

Sweetbay, that's such a pretty yellow.

Had to come inside and eat.......It's been such a beautiful day today I hate to take the time out of the garden. Thought I'd post a few pix while I'm here. Not too much blooming today.

Alabama Crimson Honeysuckle

Buttered Popcorn

Reblooming TB Iris 'Immortality' - This is the third time this year it's put on a show.

well i guess it deserves to be called immortal

When was there an Asheville roundup? I missed it! Can't go to KY this fall either. Darn.

sweetbay103 - I like the Turk's Cap lily. In my yard, L. formosanum is blooming and 'Black Beauty' just finished. But overall it's been a bad year for the lilies - something seems to be eating them (maybe voles). About half of them didn't come back this spring - they just disappeared.

av_ocd_girl - 3 times is pretty impressive for an iris. The few that I have only bloom once in late spring.

My yard looks pretty crappy now - no rain recently and all the grass is brown and dead. It's so dry even the lantana has almost stopped blooming.

Here is one thing I do have... Clerodendrum trichotomum - good food for the butterflies.

Polianthes tuberosa with a frustrated bumblebee. The nectar is too deep in the flower for the bumblebees to reach so they try to poke through the base of the flower like they do with salvias, but it's too thick for them to penetrate. So they just bumble around from flower to flower without getting any food.

TomH: is your clerodendrum invasive? I'd love to have clerodendrum, but I'm reading that some of them are invasive. Lord knows I don't want anything else that's going to take over. I'm busy fighting the oenethera right now.

Hemophobic - yes, like many cleros it tends to spread.

TomH, Yeah I'm impressed with it. They say that 'Immortality' is the standard they compare all the other reblooming Iris to. It bloomed with all the other Iris, rebloomed in June with the daylilies and just started for the 3rd time.

Love the clerodendrum, how strong is the scent? I love a garden full of fragrance.
I'm about 80-90 miles south of you....my tuberose are just starting to open........the clump got divided and moved last fall so I guess it's slow this year. I had to move it closer to the swing so I could enjoy it. LOL

What is a round-up?

Roxanne

av_ocd_girl: it's a get-together of DGers and Rednyr mentioned it in her Aug. 6 posting. THere's one coming up in Sept. in KY but I can't get there.

How do I find out about it? Place....date....time? Is there a forum, or a thread? I'm going to go back home to visit my Mother in Illinois soon.........seems like Ky is on the way. : ) Would make a great stop over spot. I could even adjust my time frame since I'm retired and not on any kind of schedule. What exactly do you mean by get-together?

Roxy

Blooming today:
Hibiscus 'Snowfire'

av_ocd_girl: Go to "Communities," go to Dave's Garden Community and you'll see the roundup section with a list of all upcoming roundups, including the one in Cadiz, KY, at Prizer Point in Sept. I also found the one that was held in Asheville this past May, but missed that one.

Found it! Thanks!

There was one in Raleigh in June. Missed it! Gotta remember for next year.

Oh yeah, that was us and we had a blast:-) We'll be looking for you next time!
Bev

ah a triple yellow datura from a round up this spring is blooming...yeah! I didn't kill it!

I traded for this crinum with sweetbay103. It's the most fragrant one so far- this is my first year with crinums and I have 3 different ones.

Can anyone ID it? Tom?

It looks like a Crinum × digweedii - there are a lot of similar hybrids so it's difficult to know the cultivar.

It was worth a shot. I'm pretty crinum ignorant. I love it regardless.

Datura inoxia got it's first flower.

nice!... smell good??

Yes it. It's not very big so it looks like one flower at a time for a while. Maybe next year it will get a bunch of flowers at the same time. Burgs are growing but no signs of flowers.

mine's about to put on an eight flower flush... pretty amazing considering that i havent given it any attention the whole summer

Lots of goodies this morning, this is the tropical hibiscus Purple Magic.

Crinum Americanum

This is a new one for me. I have had this shrub for several years but never saw a flower on it before. Now that I do see it I wonder if it bloomed before and I missed it. It is a pink bottlebrush and the flowers are just about an 1 1/2 long and maybe an inch wide. Not very showy at all but kind of interesting.

There are some insects enjoying this one too; I had better look these guys up and see if they are friendly beasts.

A solitary Thunbergia.

Begonia Sophie Cecile; this one is hardy for me.

Lotus Momo Botan

ardesia - luv the crinum! the begonia is really pretty too!

Thanks Deanna

An mystery curcuma, you have to get on your hands and knees to see this one.

No fruit to speak of on my citrus last year but this year they are all outdoing themselves. This is an Orlando tangelo.

A varigated sea hibiscus; I am not sure of the real name, some call it a mahoe. I was not sure if it would like being in the ground but it seems to have adapted well.

Close up of some of the leaves. Some are brilliant red, some are all white or all green and some are a bit of everything.

Red Bottlebrush is flushing for the third time this summer.

I am not sure which peach colored hedychium is in the picture. I have 3 or 4 and they are all just a tiny bit different. From a distance they all look alike.

Last one for now, another tropical hib - American Maid.

I love the bottlebrushes and that hedychium looks so happy.

alice, are your pinecones blooming? i have a bloom on mine! im so excited!

this gladiola is actually lime green, the pic does not do it justice, rec'd in a trade with Fairy and all the glads she sent me are blooming so great!