It's another two memes for the price of one day - Garden Bloggers Bloom Day and Wordless Wednesday.
Garden Bloggers Bloom Day has been a years old meme. hosted by Carol of May Dreams Gardens. On the 15th of each month, flower gardeners from all over the world take pictures of what is blooming in their yard and/or houses. Carol is retiring from this meme the end of the year, so this is the last July installment.
In my zone 6a Southern Tier of New York, it's hot and dry. Today, we are also enduring a bonus - wildfire smoke. I feel for all those affected. Fire is a terrible thing. So most of these blooms are from yesterday.
My astilbe didn't make it until today, alas. And, I also have a confession. In the last two years, my flower gardens have been neglected (long personal story why) and are a bit out of control. I'm going to have to pay someone to help me get it into shape, but not this hot week.
Much of the blooming in my gardens is from the humble daylily, and I'll be sharing some of my daylily collection in a minute. But first, some non-daylily blooms.
Bee balm, leaves wilted but the flowers still beckoning bees.
Yellow million bells.
Now the daylilies
Beautiful flowers. Flowers always make me smile. I hope you get some help with your garden.
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Lovely series of photos of beautiful blooms ~ Hugs ^_^
ReplyDelete...loosestrife and sweetpeas are not well mannered plants!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous photos, Alana! Thank you so much for sharing!
ReplyDeleteI have hostas and daylilies blooming, but just too hot to take pics. Never have seen yellow loosestrife, but I led the effort to rid our community of purple loosestrife.
ReplyDeleteDay lilies are such generous flowers. They give, year in, year out, and don't ask much.
ReplyDeleteThat's a pretty pale purple daylily. We have purple loosestrife here, it's so pretty, but it's one of Oregon's "Noxious Weeds."
ReplyDeleteI've much less success than you with daylilies, Alana. The few I've gotten to bloom in my Southern California garden are usually bloomed out by this time of the year and such is the case this year, although my 'Spanish Harlem' almost always pays a second visit in the fall. My bee balm is also something of a bust this year too but I appreciate yours. I'm depending on my dahlias taking the stage in the summer months.
ReplyDeletebeautiful flowers. you made me lough with-"this is aggressive", believe them.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful as always
ReplyDeleteNothing wrong with hiring help. Just think about how you'd be providing employment to someone who needs it.
ReplyDeleteLovely blooms. Thanks for sharing them.
ReplyDeleteWhat lovely pictures, such colourful flowers! Mine are really suffering from the excessive heat right now.
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