Friday, August 14, 2020

August's Bloomday

Wow. It's the middle of August, how did that happen? After the longest spring in history (in my mind at least) now summer is flying by and it's time for August's Bloomday and a look at what's blooming in our gardens. Okay, so the actual day we're supposed to post and celebrate the flowers is tomorrow, the 15th, but I'm bending the rules and maintaining my Monday - Friday posting schedule and sharing the love today. First up is the always odd, but fabulous, Grevillea rivularis...


The similarly so Grevillea x gaudichaudii.

I appreciate the teeny tiny blooms of Mahonia gracilipes leaning over the Agave ovatifolia so I have a nice background to photograph them against.

Indigofera amblyantha

Schizostylis coccinea or Hesperantha coccinea

My annual bougainvillea had paused it's bloom show, I wish I knew why. The important thing however is that it's starting up again.

It's time many in the Aralia family are forming their not so florific blooms, blooms the pollinators love. Schefflera brevipedunculata. 

Schefflera delavayi

And Metapanax delavayi...

This yellow canna is a NOID, picked up on sale at the everything store.

Ditto for this one, although its simple, small flowers are a nice change.

A new combination I'm loving, Passiflora 'Snow Queen' with a variegated cryptanthus.

Lonicera x brownii 'Dropmore Scarlet'

Abutilon Nuabtang

Hibiscus syriacus 'Red Heart'

This NOID echeveria has not stopped blooming all summer.

This little cutie was given to me as a cutting when I visited Dustin Gimbel's garden last December. Of course it wasn't blooming then.

I asked about the name and he thought it might be Kalanchoe pendans, I can't find it under that...anyone able to make an educated guess?

Paris polyphylla 'Heronswood Form'

Clematis repens 'Bells of Emei Shan'

There are lots of bromeliads blooming in the garden right now. I did a post on them last week, but will repeat the one I bought as Nidularium procerum cv. Stripes here.

Finally, we wrap with this silly grafted moon cactus that pushes out bloom after bloom. They take forever to open, but are pretty spectacular when they finally do. I'll try to capture and share the moment. In the mean time, check out the posts from other Bloomday bloggers over on May Dreams Gardens...I'll link up tomorrow, the 15th, when she goes live.

Weather Diary, Aug 13: Hi 78, Low 54/ Precip 0 

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30 comments:

  1. Oh! To be in Portland now that August's here! You always have the most exotic blooms.

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    1. Today's headed to 102, so you might want to put off your visit for a week or so.

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  2. These bends are beautiful. I am glad you participated.

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  3. So many great flowering plants! As always, the sight of Grevillea rivularis had me sighing. I'm charmed by Mahonia gracilipes too and looked it up, while assuming it wouldn't be happy here but, upon discovering that Plant Lust's write-up suggest otherwise, I've put it on my prospect list for fall planting. I can't plant anything at the moment - we've just entered an extended heatwave and my comfortable summer seems to have come to an end.

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    1. Ya it's hot all the way up here to Oregon! Mahonia gracilipes is a good one. Purple berries on hot pink stems follow those flowers.

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  4. I love the simpler, orang NOID canna. In the nursery, I've seen canna pots sitting in a water, which surprised me; I didn't realized they are such thirsty plants. How are yours planted?
    Try Cotyledon pendent (instead of Kalanchoe pendant). I love the sweet, slightly twisty petals.

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    1. They're just in the ground/containers with drainage, but they're quite happy in lots of water. And thanks for the name!

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  5. You have so many fun plants. The foliage of Grevillea x gaudichaudii is just as ornamental as the flowers.

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    1. I think it's Cotyledon pendens but C. woodii looks good too.

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  7. I believe the plant you're asking about is Cotyledon pendens. I just bought a couple of cuttings from Etsy. I love the dangling flowers. Do you keep yours outside year round?

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    1. Thanks JAS...no, mine has to come inside for wintertime.

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  8. Hard to believe it is mid-August! You have such a nice collection of unusual blooms. I, too, like the combination of Passiflora 'Snow Queen' with a variegated Cryptanthus. And the Cannas are lovely as well.

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    1. In another life I will have a garden full of cannas, you just can't go wrong with them.

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  9. Glad you asked about Dustin's plant! It does seem Cotyledon pendens fits. Mine is in bloom too. Interesting how the delavayi scheff has such different blooms from the brevipedunculata. So glad you finally got the sun and heat you've been craving.

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    1. I'm so glad the two of you talked me into taking a couple pieces of that plant, I really didn't think it would make it home...but look at it now!

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  10. Quite the unusual assortment, as always. Thanks for joining in for bloom day!

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    1. Thank you for keeping the tradition alive!

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  11. The nice thing about looking at your gorgeous blooms is that I don't have to think how I could squeeze one of them in my garden. I can just enjoy all those wonders that won't live here!

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    1. There is something to be said for that!

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  12. Wonderful! Beautiful!
    Happy Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day!

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  13. It never ceases to amaze me that your garden plants look like they come from another planet ! LOL
    They are amazing .. and ? you take wonderful photos of them so we can appreciate every intricate detail .. well done you !

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    1. What a lovely comment! Sometimes it feels like I live on another planet, but I love it here. (and yes, I take the photos)

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  14. Those are incredibly beautiful flowers .It would be my pleasure if you join my link up party related to Gardening here. http://jaipurgardening.blogspot.com/2020/08/garden-affair-link-up-party.html

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  15. you have the most unusual flowers, simply amazing, thanks for sharing the pictures and information :)

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