Lotus vine: lotus maculatus 'Amazon Sunset'
I could swear that the 15th of June was coming up this weekend... but when I opened up my feed reader today, I found a whole pile of Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day posts from yesterday. OOPS! Here, without further ado, are some more hot-color highlights from my garden this month:
Celosia spiking up through the lotus vine and alternanthera foliage
Flowering peach heuchera--and a pretty self-sown red snapdragon
'Purple Dragon' lamium, digitalis parviflora, and a few clumps of variegated thyme
A stray heuchera spike, caught up in the dark foliage of chocolate eupatorium
And a few on the cooler side of the color wheel:
Unnamed purple clematis, scrambling through my 'Bing' cherry tree
As-yet-unplanted wax begonias at the end of a flat
Oakleaf hydrangea, the nondescript flowers of lyreleaf sage, 'Chubby Fingers' sedum
Also in bloom, but not pictured:
'Red Rocks' penstemon, 'Blue Star' amsonia, echinops ritro, 'Albury Purple' hypericum, nicotiana, 'Black & Blue' salvia, 'Caradonna' salvia, 'Salsa Burgundy' salvia, little-leaf culinary sage, 'Newe Ya'ar' culinary sage, blackberry, 'Sweet Kate' spiderwort, 'Black Lace' and 'Black Beauty' elderberries, 'Gartenmeister' fuchsia, 'Bandana Cherry' lantana, various snapdragons and heucheras, 'Zweiweltenkind' goatsbeard
To check out what else is blooming around the world--or, at least, what was blooming yesterday!--check out the June Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day post by Carol of May Dreams Gardens.
10 comments:
Enjoyed your post and all the color! Larry
Your mix of hot and cool colors always entertain the eye. Happy GBBD.
I have a huechera that refuses to thrive and refuses to die. seems happy being OK
I was even later than you...I guess there is too much going on in the garden to worry about posting :)
In any case, as always, things looking lush and lovely in your garden!
Love the heucheras, Blackswamp Kim - can't keep them alive here. You may have mixed up the date, but at combining colors you're still the queen!
Annie at the Transplantable Rose
Wow what beautiful foliage. Wonderful combinations.
Very nice color mix, beautiful!
Beautiful colors and combinations of textures! Always better late than never--GBBD often sneaks up on me, too:)
I learn something new every time I visit! love your plants!
Hi Kim, Thanks for stopping by and commenting on my blog post, Kim. I was so lazy about posting that I didn't even do a GBBD post this month. It's much more fun to be outside in the garden! You have lots going on and lots of pretty contrasts between the colors and textures of foliage and blooms. Have a wonderful weekend;-)
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