Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day - August 2024
Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for August 2024
This August's blooms are pretty much the same as last year's blooms. That is, few and dying back for the most part.
Black-eyed Susans
Lance-leaf coreopsis is blooming because I cut it back once already.
The big bloomers right now are the blanketflowers. Mesa Red, Mesa Yellow, regular ones.
Morning Glory, Summer Berries yarrow (second bloom) and wisteria (a few second volunteer blooms). Now, this photo makes it looks like I have a lovely colorful, flowerful garden. Nope. You don't see the surrounding beds!
Sunsparkler "Dazzleberry" sedum is just beginning to flower.
Four O'clocks, gladiolas, a few second blooms on the hardy geranium.
Vegetables are SO behind!
Lemon cucumber, Galeux d'Eysines winter squash, Sun Sugar cherry tomato
Squash blossoms are so pretty. They rival daylilies with the ruffly flowers.
Have a nice Bloom Day!
That peach glad is beautiful. I love glads and my neighbor had a nice display. It's all over now. I'm happy to see that you have survivors from your less than ideal summer. We've had terrible squash bugs this year. Going to our community garden soon to check it out.
ReplyDeleteI stopped planting squash and relatives for a few years after I had a terrible squash bug year! They are nasty things.
DeleteYour Gaillardias look great, Lisa! The vast majority of mine have fried, probably because I haven't provided any extra water to supplement that provided by our spotty 2x weekly automated irrigation system. However, I mysteriously had a squash flower pop up in one of the raised planters in my cutting garden! I haven't grown vegetables in years.
ReplyDeleteYes, they're happy, but I have been watering a lot. Fortunately the water's cheap here.
DeleteIsn't that they way of life, though? We cut out what we don't want others to see, either in the frame of a photo or the parts of the story we leave out in the retelling. That doesn't make the flowers any less pretty.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous flowers--I wish we could se wider shots to get an idea of the areas where these are. Fascinating that you're growing Galeux d'Eysines--the peanut pumpkin, as some call it. I grew this a couple of summers ago so that I could do a painting of the pumpkin with its flowers, which are so attractive. I hope you'll have a successful crop!
ReplyDeleteSo many pretty blooms! And I hope you make something yummy with the squash blooms! They look beautiful!
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