Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day - August 2022

 Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for August 2022

Taken in small snippets it looks like there are plenty of flowers mid-August, but all I see are the dying black-eyed Susans and yarrow that needs to be cut back.  

Veitch's Blue globe thistle, blanketflower and gladiola (the darker is Ruffled Coral Lace), four o'clocks that smell so wonderful

blazing star, lance-leaf coreopsis mixed in with reblooming Persian catmint, wild sunflower

 In the background of the sunflowers is the neighbor's magnolia tree in the sunrise.  It looks like either autumn color, or dying.  It's not!

another blanketflower, artichoke with a sleeping bee, volunteer statice, one of the best last black-eyed Susan

This is the Toss Garden.
 

calendula (it's time to let it go to seed), Blue Jeans Baby Russian sage, one of the last remaining daylilies, Grape Magic

rain lily (because I used the sprinkler), a few Chinese forget-me-nots, purple coneflower, second flower of Moonshine yarrow

Shasta daisy, Little Lemon goldenrod, Red Riding Hood penstemon (which blooms again if cut back the first time)

There are a few others.  A second bloom on some butterfly weed, alyssum, a few new false sunflower blooms, one sweet pea plant, morning glories... it was a bad year for annuals.  No zinnias or cosmos to speak of. 

Fall is on the way.  Plants are dying back or forming seeds.  Nights are cooler, although days are still in the 90's, and later this week will be 100's again.  I'm tired of watering, and am letting some things just go.  Vegetables have suffered in the heat, even warm weather lovers like bush beans and cucumbers, which were left with crispy leaves.