July's Bloomday 2016

I am sorry! I don't think I've got all that much blooming this July 15th...but somehow I managed to post 50 photos. I guess I went a little crazy. How to organize so many pictures in a way that makes sense? Let's pretend we're walking through the garden, we'll start here...with the Genista aetnensis. It's a tree that's not quite yet a tree.

Ipomoea sloteri, growing up the base of the Genista aetnensis.

Grevillea x gaudichaudii, exhibit A (in the front garden).

Grevillea x gaudichaudii, exhibit B (I jumped a head to the back garden for this one - I wanted to show straight vs. curly).

Eryngium maritimum

Hesperaloe parviflora

Eryngium bourgatii

Now we've walked up the driveway but aren't quite in the back garden yet. Tradescantia pallida 'Purple Heart'

I'm still not sure exactly what got into me but I purchased a six-pack of regular old Portulaca at the grocery store nursery.

I do like it.

Zinnia ‘Benary’s Giant Lime’...grown from seed thank you very much.

Passiflora incarnata

I love these flowers...so exotic! Fruit is starting to form from some of the older blooms.

Entering the back garden, Schefflera brevipedunculata...

Agapanthus NOID. I've got 3 clumps, only one bloom! Usually there are dozens, what's up with that!?

This guy started dive bombing me. Obviously wanted to be noticed and appreciated, so I did.

Abutilon 'Nuabtang' - Lucky Lantern Tangerine

It's a dwarf, in its first year.

Sempervivum (NOID...I just don't keep track of them). But it's fabulous, no?

Hibiscus syriacus 'Red Heart'

Starting to get a little shaded out, but still quite a few flowers.

Melianthus major 'Antonow's Blue'...two blooms now! (and a short Macleaya cordata).

Nicotiana alata ‘Lime Green’

It's an Abutilon party!

Abutilon 'Nuabyell'

Abutilon 'Victor Reiter'

Kniphofia Popsicle series – maybe 'Mango'?

Sempervivum, another NOID

And ditto...

Rhodochiton atrosanguineus – an annual vine also known as purple bell vine.

There are the "clappers"

Eryngium venustum

Syneilesis aconitifolia

Aloe blooms are such a rare treat here I have to share them even when they're not quite open. A. dorotheae...

Sedum NOID

Anigozanthos 'Amber Velvet'

Anigozanthos 'Amber Velvet'

Eryngium pandanifolium var. lasseauxii

Our cloudy cool days (unusual for July, and I'm not a fan) are keeping this bloom on my crazy grafted cactus from fully opening.

Abutilon megapotamicum 'Red' (which to me looks orange).

Again from a distance and joined by the recently cut back Symphytum × uplandicum 'Axminster Gold' – which was supposed to then form a mound of foliage but instead seems intent on blooming again.

Macleaya cordata

Leucadendron 'Jester'

Colocasia Crocosmia NOID, this one included mostly as a memory booster for me. Since I'd forgot I planted them here and was very surprised to see them last spring. (thanks Anon for commenting and correcting my blunder!)

Anigozanthos, yellow blooming (cause I love the Kangaroo Paws!)...

Lysimachia paridiformis var. stenophylla

Plantago major ‘Rosularis’

Ligularia dentata 'Othello' – about to be cut back but not yet at the full on UGLY stage, so getting a bit of a reprieve.

And ending with this NOID Bromeliad. Tiny blooms are forming in the cup, but I'm really loving the bright red color of the surrounding leaves.

Still need more? Visit our hostess for Garden Bloggers Bloomday – Carol, at May Dreams Gardens.

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