Blooming In June

And in the garden, I have my first yellow cherry tomatoes:

? name ? lily

Bee Balm

Carolina Spicebush / Sweetshrub

BirdieBlue - I think your orange daylily is just the common "Ditch Lily" aka Hemercallis flava. One of the earliest to bloom, very hardy and multiplies well.

Here's a "lily porn" picture taken just a few minutes ago. At first I tried it with the "natural" light from the sodium vapor streetlight ... but that ended up being an ugly, sickly yellow-orange color. So I switched on the flash to reveal the true colors. And it has a delicious fragrance .... Lilium regale ...

Oh wow, what a fantastic shot of a beautiful lily.

I can just see the yellow noses now of anyone who bent over to smell those lovely lily blossoms!!

Here's my gardenia shrub. NOID, but it perfumes the whole back entrance.

Gaillardia burgundy that I wintersowed this year. Pretty but not very tall.

Hydrangea Hortensia azul gloria

Allium flavum starting to open:

Salvia viridis:

the glads are so beautiful right now....many thanks to my DG buddy in MI Stacy ....

Rednyr: Do you have to stake yours? Mine are falling all over the place. Some I have staked, but still....

Yes they are incredibly tall this year and are falling all over the place!

Here's a white one (NOID):

And the red ones:

Hemophobic, the salvia viridis is one I have never seen, the top is really pink like that? it kind of reminds me of a monarda

Tom, the mystery buddleia is too cool

Yep, Tropicanna, it really is. Here's another shot of it:

Ooh, Hemo, I am drooling over that Salvia, ca I get some cuttings or seeds later this summer?
(Hmm... If you are salivating over Salvias, would you be salviating?)
Lorie in Cola

That salvia is one of those OH WOW plants. Just beautiful, who cares about flowers with leaves like that.

Lorie and Ardesia: If I get seeds, you can certainly have some. This is one of my wintersown seeds and it's doing so well. It's rather low growing at this point and since it's new for me, I'm not sure how tall it will ultimately get. Its name led me to think it would be a green salvia without much color, but that's deceptive. Must be the reason I ordered these seeds to start with, huh? I'm getting into more of the salvias, and yes, Lorie, you are probably salviating!!

Thanks, Ladies.

Hemo, Do you know about Richard Dufresne? He lives in NC and is one of the foremost experts and hybridizers of salvias. Plant Delights sell a lot of his introductions and this one says Dufresne to me, although the name is tryly deceptive. Perhaps the seeds were mislabled?

Edited to add: Nope, this is the correct name. Why haven't I ever heard of this plant before? According to several sources this is a common native. Interesting.

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Ardesia: Yes; I'm familiar with Rich, as I hang out from time to time on the agastache and salvia forum. I've posted there, too.

Angie

X,

What does "NOID" refer to? That's part of a gardening vocabulary that I never learned. LOL

Karin ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Karin: NOID means no identity or no ID. To me, it also says no idea!!

Angie

Not much interesting new stuff in bloom at the moment. But I do have some daylilies. They are doing well this year since we've had a decent amount of rain and no extreme hot weather. Unfortunately I've long since lost the ID tags for most of them... I'll mention the names of those I still remember. BTW if you are in central NC I highly recommend Holly Hill Daylily Farm http://www.hollyhilldaylilies.com/ - I got most of my daylilies and quite a few crinums there. Great selection of big, healthy plants and reasonable prices.

First up... Buttered Popcorn. Bright yellow and very common in mass plantings.

Tennessee Tan

I think this one is called Spider Breeder

Don't remember the name of this one...

Another NOID

A nice dark red spider that lost its tag.

Another nice pale yellow one...

Yellow and red bicolor....

I don't know why many plants of the Solanaceae Family, such as Brugmansia and Datura only look their best after dark, but they do. It's unusual for me to have so many brugs blooming this early but 5 are. The funny thing is that the blooms are half as tall as the plants so they look kind of funny and out of proportion.

This is Frosty Pink. You'll see a sheen, almost a patent leather look on most of them. This is the nature of the flower. They also have a strong almost baby powder scent.

Sunray, one of my favorites

A NOID White which sometimes throws out a double.

Pink Perfektion .. you'll see in this picture the skirt separation is wider and looks prettier

By August, these plants will be over 6 feet tall, some up to 10 and when they are all in bloom with these flowers hanging down, it's stunning .. the picture here shows how short the plants are at the moment.

X

X - Nice brugs! Brugmansias and Daturas are pollinated by night-flying moths such as sphinxes - that's why their flowers don't fully open or exude their best fragrance until after dark. I'm happy you are having good luck w/Sunray... I gave up on it because for me it would sulk during the hot summer months and not put on a good show until cooler weather arrived with autumn.