Friday, June 30, 2017

June's Blooms

The garden is  pretty lush and the grass is still green, not yet succumbing to the heat of summer. Since I left my dahlia tubers in the ground last fall I already have blooms appearing which I like so much better than having to wait until late July or August for blooms.  I think from now on I will leave them in the ground come fall and just protect them with mulch and foil caps to keep them from drowning when their stalks fill with rainwater.   


Top: Venosa Violacea clematis blooming profusely with Valley Porcupine and Parkland Rave dahlias in the background.
Bottom:  Pooh dahlia

Top Left:  Oops, I've forgotten the name of this dahlia.  Perhaps when I find it again I will update.
Top Right:  Incrediball hydrangea (white) with Valley Porcupine dahlias
Bottom:  ? hydrangea and hosta

The hydrangea in the foreground is Cityline Paris.  Not sure if I still have a tag from the one in the background.


Top Left:  Wildwood Marie dahlia just opening up
Top Right: a pink honeysuckle that I struggle with every year.  First the aphids attack and then the heat.  This year I seem to have gotten rid of most of the aphids.
Bottom Left:  creeping Jenny blooming in a pot
Bottom Right:  unknown astilbe


Top:  Endless Summer hydrangea
Bottom:  Royal Candles Speedwell Veronica spicata with some Cranesbill geranium in the background


Top:  a hollyhock grown from seeds I harvested from a neighbor's yard.  Aren't the forming seed pods beautiful?
Bottom Left:  Sorbet dahlia
Bottom Right:  a large day-lily I picked up at a perennial plant sale.

So much color in late June!

(This post was backdated to keep my photos in chronological order.  I've been so busy gardening that I haven't been keeping up with the posting but I do want to be able to look back someday and have a lovely diary of my garden.)

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