Garden Bloggers Bloom Day July 2022

Welcome to Garden Bloggers Bloom Day July 2022.

I'm a little late posting this.  So, let's get started.

We have avoided (for the most part) the terrible heat that has blanketed a lot of the United States, but we are now in a drought situation.  I don't think we've seen it this dry here in many years.  At least, so far, no water restrictions and the temperatures staying (for the most part) in the 80's F (about 29 C) has helped a lot.

My zone 5b Southern Tier of New York garden is bursting with flowers (too many to show you) so I am going to concentrate on my collection of day lilies.

Thursday, we went to a new (to us) day lily nursery in the Northern Tier of Pennsylvania.  Of course, I had to buy some, as if I didn't have enough already.  We came home with three new varieties, all snug in their new homes.

This first one is unnamed.  It was hybridized by the nursery, Lambertson's Brookside, and it was love at first sight. They just never gave it a name.

This lovely lily is called Fashion Police.

And this, Citrus Kick.  I bought this one because it "frequently reblooms".  I only have one rebloomer, a yellow (I don't think it is Stella D'Oro, though - if it reblooms it's only once.) And that's it for day lily names.

We also bought a bee balm plant from this nursery.  Call me eternally optimistic as I have killed every bee balm plant I've ever purchased.  They are so easy to grow, killing one takes a special talent, and I have it.

I have a very bad habit of losing names of flowers, so the rest of these daylilies are unknown.  Their names may be somewhere on my blog, but I'm running late, so they will remain nameless.

A reddish lily I bought back in 2019 from Grace Gardes in Penn Yan, New York. The next two are also from Grace Gardens.

This lovely yellow has a hint of green in it.

I've mentioned before that I think this small double is called Bubbly.

I call this peach.

Lavender.

I usually get only two or three flowers from this one.  It has given me a bonanza of blooms this year.

Another from Grace Gardens.  If I was to name it, I would call it "Yikes, stripes!"

I have so many more and maybe I'll publish some more in the coming days.

Moving on to some non day lilies, both these colors are from plants that are a cross between petunias and million bells.  The flowers are the size of petunias and I absolutely adore bot colors.

This next flower was an experiment.  Last year I tried growing vining nasturtiums in a basket and failed.  This year, I succeeded.

Aren't they lovely?  The flowers are so big, but the leaves keep turning yellow.  Maybe I'm overwatering it?

From my community garden, orange zinnias.

The yellow and white petunias are Bees Knees.  This one will be a new favorite.

We bought this plant at a Cornell Cooperative sale.  The purple leaves sold us but I recommend you do not buy this plant because it is an aggressive grower. (Full disclosure, they did warn us, and they weren't kidding.) Now, if I could only remember the name.... 

Our blackberry lilies (purchased from Thomas Jefferson's Monticello as one plant and some seeds) started to bloom yesterday.  We have two blooms today.  The seed pods, when they open, look just like blackberries, hence the name.

Oh, I couldn't resist some more daylilies, so I'm sneaking in one more.

Once again, a big shoutout to Carol at May Dreams Gardens for hosting this meme. Why not visit some of the other bloggers who have linked to Garden Bloggers Bloom Day on Carol's blog?

See you next time!