July Bloomday!

Here in Portland we've hit the sweet spot. Blue skies day after day, warm (sometimes hot) temperatures, THIS is what erases the memory of all that winter rain, or this year all that winter snow, ice, and rain. Oh July, how I love you!

If I was a real flower floozy I'd more flowers to share this Garden Bloggers' Bloomday (thanks for hosting Carol) but I think I've got a pretty substantial line up, even for a foliage lover. Admittedly I'm rushing things a bit, sharing these Agapanthus buds. They'll open before the day is over though...

Last year I only got a single flower cluster from my Alstroemeria isabellana.

Thankfully this year it's back to it's florific ways and there are many.

Eryngium agavifolium, always a pollinator favorite.

Something's been snacking on the Clematis florida var. sieboldiana flowers. Not cool!

Abutilon Nuabyell, which has come back from being killed to the ground last winter, and it's already flowering.

Hibiscus syriacus 'Red Heart'

Acanthus mollis

Thalictrum ichangense 'Evening Star' — which has been blooming since April!

One day, almost overnight, this NOID Tillandsia started to turn pink. I should have known blooms were eminent.

Another long bloomer, Calycanthus floridus 'Athens' — since April.

Lysimachia paridiformis var. stenophylla

Nymphaea 'Marliacea Chromatella'

Love my waterlilies!

Grevillea 'Ned Kelly'

I have never caught these little grafted Moon Cactus blooms open. This is the entire show...

Anigozanthos flavidus

Macleaya cordata, with Trachycarpus.

NOID Sempervivum

NOID Sempervivum

Paris polyphylla - Heronswood form

Moving out to the front garden... it's Yucca time!

If memory serves (cause I'm not going outside to count right now) this year's crop was 13 spikes.

Both Y. filamentosa ‘Color Guard’ and the plain green Y. filamentosa are blooming.

Interestingly the 'Color Guard' stems are white...

And the plain green are, well, green....

Genista aetnensis

Santolina chamaecyparissus 'Lemon Queen'

Another NOID Sempervivum

The end of the Morina longifolia flowers.

Grevillea x gaudichaudii

Scabiosa stellata 'Paper Moons' (flower on the left, reason for growing the flower on the right).

Hey, how'd that get in here? Another Santolina chamaecyparissus 'Lemon Queen'.

These NOID Lewisia have been blooming for months.

Indigofera amblyantha

Gaura lindheimeri

Bougainvillea × buttiana 'Barbara Karst'

Callistemon ‘Woodlander's Hardy Red’ — at the very end of it's bloom cycle.

While I'll always wish for more, at least one of my Hesperaloe parviflora saw fit to send up a bloomspike this year.

Luckily it's right by a window so we can watch the hummingbirds dine.

Finally I'll wrap up with Datura 'Ballerina Purple'. Where ever you are I hope you're enjoying July in your garden!

Weather Diary, July 14: Hi 86, Low 56/ Precip 0

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Garden Blogger's Bloomday — May 2018

The wonderful Carol Michael, mother of the Bloomday meme, blogger at May Dreams Gardens, attended the Austin Fling. Had I been a better blogger I would have captured a photo of her, with some gorgeous flowering shrub. Sadly I did not. Let's just say Carol is one of those people you remember and feel fortunate to have spent a few minutes with. Hopefully she'll attend next year's Fling in Denver, CO, and I'll be ready. Maybe with a big bouquet of fake flowers for her. She'd be game, I'm sure of it.

So on to the flowers, those that are blooming in my garden on this May 15th. Oh and how do you identify a tired blogger? They're the ones that don't bother to reorder their Bloomday photos from the alphabetical order the software uploaded them in. Oh well, hopefully you'll enjoy them anyway. Ajuga reptans 'Black Scallop'

Calycanthus floridus 'Athens', smells so good!

Ceanothus 'Dark Star' — I thought I took a close-up photo but I guess not.

Ceanothus thyrsiflorus 'Zanzibar'

Cerinthe major 'Purpurascens'

Disporum cantonese ‘Night Heron’

Embothrium coccineum

Euphorbia 'Ascot Rainbow'

Genista lydia, snuggled up to a volunteer Verbascum.

Grevillea 'Ivanhoe', not reliably hardy here but both of my plants lived through last winter, yay!

Grevillea juniperina ‘Molonglo’

Grevillea miqueliana, blooming for months and months now...

Grevillea rivularis

Grevillea x gaudichaudii

Grevillea x gaudichaudii again, because I have multiple plants, all blooming!

Indigofera amblyantha

Leptospermum lanigerum

Leucothoe fontanesiana 'Rainbow'

Lewisia cotyledon 'Sunset Series'

The same Lewisia, but shown with it's foliage rather than the grass it flopped into.

Lewisia NOID, sorry, but it's so bright the camera can't handle it.

Lonicera ciliosa

Lonicera x brownii 'Dropmore Scarlet'

Anigozanthos 'Bush Ranger'

Parahebe perfoliata

Podophyllum 'Red Panda'

Podophyllum peltatum flower

Podophyllum peltatum foliage (bonus photo)

Podophyllum pleianthum

Polygonatum odoratum

Rhododendron 'Ebony Pearl'

Sarracenia flower

Saxifraga urbium 'Aureopunctata'

Sedum palmeri, the flower belongs to the Aeonium looking foliage at the top half of the photo.

Symphytum × uplandicum 'Axminster Gold', a few buds showing up.

And we wrap with Thalictrum 'Evening Star'. May is so darn bloomy!

Weather Diary, May 14: Hi 89, Low 59/ Precip 0

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