On the fifteenth of every month, Carol at May Dreams Gardens hosts Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day and encourages us to record what's blooming in our gardens. Click here to see her post and to find links to those of other participating garden bloggers.
In denial that it's already the middle of August and almost time to go back to work, I totally spaced GBBD today. Having taught a class last night, I had a Wednesday Vignette lined up and was about to push the publish button when I looked at the date. So, out to the garden with the camera just before dawn to snap some shots of some of what's blooming in my garden this month. There's far to much to show it all and still there are too many pictures so I won't do too much commenting.
This year, I've had a horrible problem with powdery mildew on my begonias. PM scars and even kills off leaves and makes it difficult for the plant to continue growing and blooming. I've been spraying regularly with organic fungicides but alas, the begonia bloom is not what it has been in past years. Fortunately, I've so many of them that some were not victims of mildew and continue blooming beautifully.
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Pansies from last fall have bloomed through the winter and now all summer. Will they continue through this winter as well?
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In denial that it's already the middle of August and almost time to go back to work, I totally spaced GBBD today. Having taught a class last night, I had a Wednesday Vignette lined up and was about to push the publish button when I looked at the date. So, out to the garden with the camera just before dawn to snap some shots of some of what's blooming in my garden this month. There's far to much to show it all and still there are too many pictures so I won't do too much commenting.
This year, I've had a horrible problem with powdery mildew on my begonias. PM scars and even kills off leaves and makes it difficult for the plant to continue growing and blooming. I've been spraying regularly with organic fungicides but alas, the begonia bloom is not what it has been in past years. Fortunately, I've so many of them that some were not victims of mildew and continue blooming beautifully.
Roses
Pelargoniums (Geraniums)
Clerodendrum bungei
Cannas
The one dahlia plant that keeps surviving over the winter.
Origanum ‘Kent Beauty’
Agastache
Someone needs to deadhead the Dianthus!
A few Romneya coulteri are still going even though the big show is over.
Clerodendrum trichotomum var. fargesii 'Carnival'
Lathyrus latifolius. I rather like the bluish color of the fading flowers.
This Ceanothus reliably booms twice a year; once in the spring with the others and again in August.
Fuchsias
Japanese Anemone
Hydrangeas
Ligularia
Lobelia cardinalis
Abutilons
Brugmansia
Pansies from last fall have bloomed through the winter and now all summer. Will they continue through this winter as well?
Monardella macrantha
In the greenhouse - Tillandsia something or other.
Echeveria
Bougainvillea
Bromeliads.
Thanks, Carol, for continuing to host this wonderful meme!