Friday, July 15, 2016

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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38 comments:

  1. With summer in peak no wonder you have so many floral treats to share!

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    1. Summer? What summer? Sorry...I'm feeling a little robbed of our summer sun and heat. Not that it's been a total washout but definitely different this year.

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  2. So many exotic blooms. Have you ever noticed if some of your Syneleisis blooms are white while others are that pinky color you show in your photo? I have both colors and wondered why. I love Portulaca, good for you for buying a cheapo grocery store six-pack.

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    1. Hmmm, honestly no. But then I cut most of them off back when they started forming. They're so heavy they weigh down the lovely foliage...can't have that.

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  3. AnonymousJuly 15, 2016

    Colocasia? Crocosmia, no?

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    1. Duh! Thank you so much for catching and commenting.

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  4. Never apologize for too many plant photos. Crazy woman.

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  5. Very nice variety. Thanks for the pictures and the post.

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  6. I never think of your garden as bloom-filled, but there's always something to post about come the 15th! Love the Eryngium bourgatii and E. venustum -- wonder if deer would chomp those as readily as other eryngium?

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    1. Those would have to be really desperate deer...they're sharp!

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  7. The 15th rolls around and you reveal your inner flower girl. Always a pleasure. Rhodochiton? Really? If you grow that, you can grow anything.

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    1. Really? Just bought it at Portland Nursery this spring. Doesn't seem too challenging???

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  8. Happy Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day!

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  9. It's easy to get carried away with the camera, isn't it? I had the impression I'd very few blooms in my garden (other than the Eustoma) until I started clicking away. As usual, there's a lot to love in your garden, most of it out-of-the-ordinary, but this month I'm head over heels over those sempervivums, which for some reason don't seem to like it here.

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    1. Ya my brother took a whole bunch of his Semps with him when he moved to Phoenix (from Spokane, WA). They lasted about a month.

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  10. Look at all those blooms! What the hell..whose non-bloom-y garden is this anyway?! Happy GBBD :)

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    1. I know...I don't know where they all come from!

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  11. Great selection! It always amazes me how many plants and flowers you cram into that tiny space, and make it look good. I think your Eryngium bourgatii may actually be E. variifolium, though. Ha, I can't ever imagine planting a plantago on purpose, even one as unusual as 'Rosularis'. I've got too much of the weedy ones popping up everywhere. Sorry you're not enjoying the cooler weather, but I'm loving it, and it's giving me the chance to catch up on watering.

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    1. Thank you! (I think). And you know E. variifolium looks like a match, which would mean the nursery tagged it wrong. That never happens though, right? Oh and that plantago is in a container, I just didn't have a great place in the ground for it, yet....

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  12. My Agapanthus has three blooms which is still rather sad!

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    1. Two more than mine! Actually I'm thinking of what else I can plant in a prime spot one of them is occupying. You snooze, you loose...

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  13. Wonderful! Happy you got an Aloe flower!

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    1. Two actually, the other was very short lived (on A. striatula).

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  14. love the tour. Your/garden is definitely high maintenance. lol

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    1. What? Who you calling high maintenance?

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  15. Ain't July a grand time in the garden? Congratulations on your grafted cactus blooming! Lots of cool flowers as always in your garden! Plantago major ‘Rosularis’ is new to me and it's fab!

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    1. It is the BEST! (the Plantago)...crazy odd, and green!

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  16. So many great things that it is hard to single anything out. Looks great. The orangey-red Abutilon megapotamicum always catches my eye. Funny about your Agapanthus. I've got two different hardy ones in the ground. I have two large, old clumps of one species that bloomed like crazy last year and this year each clump has one flower. Not a pattern that I've noticed before. Strange.

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    1. Strange indeed...to add to it there are a couple of other standbys that aren't blooming -- and yet so many other things are blooming that never have. It't the weather I'm sure. Not just this summer but last.

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  17. Congrats on your seed-grown zinnias. I saw so many zinnias on BD posts that I had to find a six-pack today for the community garden. -- no lime green unfortunately, but a pinky-green. Must remember to start from seed next year!

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    1. Seed does give one the most options. I'll be doing more next year! (since I must alternate the tomato tanks).

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  18. Did you grow you Rhodochiton from seed ? It's one of the things I'm growing(seed) this year . Mine is growing , but no bloom yet !

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  19. The NOID Bromeliad is a hybrid Neoregelia cultivar. Good color on it given you have to take it indoors with low light over winter.

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  20. Ohhh...this is always gorgeous! I love all the blooms and foliage. As I´ve been missing so many posts I didn't remember the Ipomoea sloteri. I love it!!!

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  21. Not much blooming? Lots like a ton to me!! I especially like the close-ups.

    Regarding Genista aetnensis, how well-behaved is it? I love brooms, but they can be so invasive, I haven't had one in many years.

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