Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day - June 2021

 Here is it, halfway through June already, and time for Garden Blogger's Bloom Day.

I have a lot in bloom, so I've tried to consolidate it a bit by a photo of the area, a mosaic of some of the flowers, and individual photos of my favorites.

And no favorite would be complete without a photo of Mickey, now 8 months old!  All I have to do is bend over to plant or take a picture, and there he is, wondering what I'm doing and is it something he'd be interested in too?  He's been known to follow behind me and dig up newly planted transplants and bulbs the moment I'm done and turn away.  This watching he does is why walks are so slow.  He stops and stares at cars, people, birds and planes in the sky...  This is American Revolution daylily, the first daylily to flower this year, other than the orange ditch lilies.  (I'll let you in on a little secret about Mickey.  That pink eye lid, pink on the bridge of his nose?  It glows bright red when he gets riled up and  ready for his daily "toddler time" fits that begin around 7:30pm!)

The Pollinator Garden 

Visible blooms are Shasta daisy Angel, larkspur (too tall), Chinese forget-me-nots, purple coneflower, sweet William, lance-leaf coreopsis, bachelor buttons, blanketflower, and alyssum.  Out of sight and blooming are wild basil, UpTick coreopsis, Rozanne hardy germanium, rocket larkspur, black cumin, and lavender Ellegance Snow.

 

Purple coneflower, black cumin, and Rocket larkspur

Butterfly Garden 

Here are yarrow Moonshine, butterfly weed Gay Butterflies, bachelor buttons, UpTick and lance-leaf coreopsis visible.  There are also strawflowers, false sunflowers, narrow-leaf milkweed, corn poppy, candytuft, and black-eyed Susan.

Pow Wow Wild Berry coneflower, false sunflower, candytuft (dwarf mixed), and strawflower.

The Toss Garden 

In its third year, this began with literal tossed leftover seeds, seed heads, and anything I deadheaded.  A lot of black-eyed Susan grows here.  Also blooming right now are various perennial and annual coreopsis, calendula, butterfly weed, narrow-leaf milkweed, borage, alyssum, Chinese forget-me-not, knautia macedonica Red Knight, and wild basil.

 

One of my favorite self-seeding annuals is the tall plains coreopsis. 

 

 Front Yard

 The corn poppies are nearly done, and torn out, so it's looking a bit bare, especially since I tore out all the blue fescue. I've been adding new perennials and transplants I've grown.  What is flowering now is gaura (I clearer out most of these, leaving just two plants), lance-leaf coreopsis (you get the idea it's really easy to grow?), gilia, tall plains coreopsis, yarrow Moonshine, and out of sight are the new plants, perennial bachelor button Amethyst Dream, Sunset Snappy blanketflower , and Pow Wow Wild Berry coneflower.

The blanketflower ( a bit disappointing, it looks exactly the same as what I already have, just shorter), Lavender Ellegance Snow, Pow Wow Wild Berry coneflower.

Lavender Munstead (that's golden oregano by it), gilia with coreopsis, gaura Siskiyou Pink, and the perennial bachelor button. 

Fruit Tree Guilds 

Fancy name for stuff planted under fruit trees.  

This is the "peach I grew from a pit" bed.  Blanket flower, yarrow Moonshine,  and a peek of rocket larkspur.  The corepsis on the left middle is in a large container.  That's more yarrow in the peach bed (parent plant of the pit I grew) in the background.

 

 Strawberry mint (the leaves smell just like strawberry jam!), blanketflowers, breadseed poppy, and rocket larkspur.  The yellow behind the mint is yarrow.

Roman chamomile under the Pluot tree. 

 

Miscellaneous  

 

Candytuft (dwarf mix), strawflower, good ol' Grandpa Ott morning glory,  and the first nasturtium, Alaska Mix.  The leaves would be enough beauty even without the flowers!

 Ditch lily, Double Dynasty dianthus, black-eyed Susan, and bachelor buttons dwarf mix.

 

 

UpTick coreopsis, borage, narrow-leaf milkweed, and Persian catmint.

 

 

Dahlias 

 

This is the first time I've grown dahlias, having avoided anything that needs digging up to protect it in the winter.  These are planted in containers, which I can move into the shed.  These three were given to me by a generous friend!  

 

Kelsey Annie Joy, Totally Tangerine, and Bishop of Dover.  I like Kelsey Annie Joy the best for the flower, but Bishop of Dover has pretty dark purple foliage I like.

 

 I could go on, but will leave it at this.  

 

Happy Gardening!

 

Oh, come back tomorrow or Thursday for a very special post about two very special unique items, calendars with grow paper pages!  I'll be showing you a sneak peek, and letting you know how you'll be able get your own.