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| I've been out every morning, since seeing Ricki's Knophofia 'percey's pride' bloom http://bannersbyricki.com/archives/4799 And this week , a bloom ! I've been counting on Percy to give my other wise low loose planting a bit of weight. I divided the plant I got from Ricki into half a dozen . This is the only bloom so far , but the plants have beefed up plenty, now a few more spikes …please. |
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| Aah…Vebena rigida , I think anyway. I've been scratching my head over this plant all spring. I thought I'd planted Erigeron . Which I did , you can see the Santa Barbara daisy spring up all around . A case of seed mixup somewhere along the pricking and repotting process. I'm pleased with this addition to my ground cover, along with the purple seed pods of Nigella 'Cramers plum' , the purple blur in the background. I don't think I'll have any problem getting these going , going , going . |
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| Not bad at all ! considering I've hardly done any gardening at all this spring/summer. To hot in this dry south /western patch. I did finally plant out all my seedlings. Poor things struggled with the 90 + temperatures . But, I have blooms , a bit scraggly the plants at the moment . I can just see the growth bulking up at the base . |
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| Why I planted the Gaura so near Hammamelis ? One of you will need to move . I think it will be the Gaura. |
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| Still a lot of baldy patches. Plenty of room for bulb planting . |
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| I'm on a roll , two posts today. Who would have thought , with temperatures soaring ... here for more vignettes hosted by Anna. |
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| I went out this morning , thinking it will be an all white July bloom post ; and looking from a distance it looks that way with : Guara, Acillea, Nicotiana ( all white) taking up much of the garden . But I did find dabs of color here and there, like Gladiolus dalenii 'Bolivian peach' and 'Lucifer' |
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| Inula Orientalis which has spread out in a nice swath. A very easy plant for me; and no extra watering this dry hot summer . |
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| Peachy roses with Panicum 'Cheyenne sky', Foersters feather grass and Vitex "silver spires . |
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| Sedum, Sedum and more Sedum. |
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| Teucrium hircaicum 'pardise delight' this one self seeded. |
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| Catanache'cupids dart' |
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| Kanutia macedonica , this one a big blooming happy clump. Sadly my other one, not so. Badly suffering in the heat of the late afternoon …must move you! |
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| Finally an Agastache returns for a second summer! Don't know which one , didn't keep the tag , as I thought it would die over the winter . |
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| Nicotiana and Guara |
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| Coreopsis tinctoria 'Mahogany' grown from seed . |
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| A purply Penstemon , another lost tag ... |
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| Very thrilled to find Dyckia choristaminae…I think, blooming for the first time. |
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| Lastly one of my grown from seed Rosa chinensis 'Angel rose' ,very sweet and tiny at only about 6" , but much loved ! If you're wanting more July blooms visit Carol May Dreams Gardens |
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| About the only time we can sit in the garden comfortably these days ! With temperatures in the upper 90's for the last few weeks . An almost peaceful evening , if you can ignore the sound of neighbors band saw running, or the drummer that lives behind us and his screaming child . What about the builders with their nail guns working over time to escape the heat …. |
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| Maybe a dip in the water bowl. |
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| Or I think it's 'flame leaf' , lost the tag. I've been bring it indoors in the winter a few years now , It's from the Amazon, probably zone 10 . |
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| And every summer it rewards me with many , many seedlings . These are just a few, I've been relocating them as they get to a nice size for a few weeks. They don't mind this heat wave in the least . In fact I've never had so many. |
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| This photo was taken last week just after the first bloom of 'Miss Libby'' opened. Before the Yucca blooms in the background fell over ! I've since renched them back up . |
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