Garden Bloggers Bloom Day July 2023

It's July 15, and I can't believe that this year is more than half over.  It's also Garden Bloggers Bloom Day, and it's time to share some of the flowers in my zone 5b Southern Tier of New York yard with my readers.

It's been warm and humid.  We had been in a drought, but we've had rain - fortunately, we've been spared the flooding people to our east in the Hudson Valley of New York (where my spouse grew up) and Vermont.   We haven't had the blasting heat of other areas, although today it will be (for us) hot.

July is day lily time.

I love day lilies and I have so many of them to show you.  There are too many for my small front yard (my back yard is too shady) and too many to show you today.  So let's get right to the flowers.

Day lilies:  I don't know the names of many of these.  Some are forgotten in the mists of time, plus I have purchased, over the years, a lot of unnamed varieties or varieties the local botanical garden got from a deceased grower where the family did not know the names.  My July 2022 GBBD post gives more details.

Fashion Police.

An unnamed spider variety purchased in 2022 from Lambertson's Brookside in Pennsylvania.  I am not linking to them because the owners are in the process of selling to a new owner (located in Honesdale, Pennsylvania) and most of their stock is with the new owners.

I love the melon color of this one.

Red. 

Pink with yellow ruffles.

Pink ruffles and a yellow throat.  For a while, I was on a ruffled kick.

Red and yellow.

A group photo.

Purple - this may be the first day lily I ever purchased.

I am not including several others but I must mention my earliest day lily, still going strong.

Have to make room for some of my non day lilies.  Here, variegated pink petunias and yellow lantana.
 

I have several hostas blooming - here's a purple flowered one.

Yellow loosestrife.  I bought this at a plant sale at our local botanical garden, and was warned it was aggressive.  Let's say I'm somewhat sorry I bought it because we have to thin it out each year, but it does have pretty yellow flowers.  And, it's purple when it first comes up in the spring.

A blurry zinnia.  They are just starting to bloom (we grow them in our community garden).

Tall phlox, which, this year, has a bad case of powdery mildew.  Time for baking soda and water.

 Last but not least (because I don't want to overwhelm you I'm tired), bee balm.  Victory.  After many years, I succeeded in growing this!  And yes, it's attracting the bees.

Thanks go, as always, to Carol at May Dreams Gardens for this 15th of the month meme.  Why not follow the link and find some other blogs with beautiful flowers for today?