It’s like a switch was flipped and a jolt of electricity hit the garden. July is potent stuff. Things are really starting to move and shimmy and shine now that the grasses are blooming.
Achnatherum calamagrostis, Kniphofia ‘Timothy’ and phormium
Verbascum roripifolium on the right. Two plants overwintered, grew very tall in early summer, wind broke a couple feet off one plant and it’s branched out horizontally. This unbroken plant pictured is more tall and graceful of the two.
Kniphofia ‘Timothy’ and Teucrium hircanicum
Heliopsis ‘Bleeding Hearts’ is so good — great leaves, long-lasting zinnia-like flowers, doesn’t need staking in heavy wind, slugs mostly leave it alone, doesn’t beg for water either
heliopsis with deschampsia
A couple of blooming agapanthus were dropped into the garden this July. ‘Xera’s Cobalt’ replaced some struggling echinacea which didn’t make much heft in three years. Love the agapanthus with Euphorbia griffithii.
Persicaria affinis new this summer
Patrinia is getting squeezed by sanguisorba and Persicaria polymorpha — decisions for next spring
Cirsium rivulare ‘Trevor’s Blue’ stretching as tall as Sanguisorba ‘Red Thunder’ and matching its intensity in color
Eryngium paniculatum, cotula, salvias
Morina longifolia
Eryngium variifolium
The cosmos started from seed in April just opening first flowers, three varieties, ‘Xsenia’ and ‘Fandango’ and ‘Apricotta’ — this is probably ‘Apricotta,’ Making note for next year to not expect much from annuals until July. A second sowing of zinnias and cosmos in June are nearly catching up to those sown in April.
a bright fuchsia pink dierama blooming for the first time this July — misplaced the label
dark seed strain from Dancing Oaks, five flowering stems this summer
Allium ‘Millenium’ was moved out of the border and into the gravel area
couple phygelius in the garden, this one ‘Strawberry Blonde’
You’ve got a lot going on in your July garden, Denise! I loved your characterization of it “starting to move and shimmy and shine.” The Verbascum roripifolium is beautiful – I didn’t know that anything in that genus produced flowers with that airy quality. I envy the tiger lily too.
Wonderful variety of plants. Love that Teucrium, we wants it! Also the Heliopsis and the inky Salvia. Here the Cosmos planted in April haven’t done much until now, either. Extended May/June marine layer, not that an extended May/June marine layer is a bad thing, no not at all.
Missed this post in the nonstop onslaught of July travel madness. I needed this distraction today as relax into the enforced break that covid has forced upon me. Nice to garden without all the effort for once. The photos with the golden (aralia?), blue melianthus, and pink lilies are my favorites at the moment, though the photos with the galvanized planter and the white Eryngium paniculatum are up there too.
You’ve got a lot going on in your July garden, Denise! I loved your characterization of it “starting to move and shimmy and shine.” The Verbascum roripifolium is beautiful – I didn’t know that anything in that genus produced flowers with that airy quality. I envy the tiger lily too.
Wonderful variety of plants. Love that Teucrium, we wants it! Also the Heliopsis and the inky Salvia. Here the Cosmos planted in April haven’t done much until now, either. Extended May/June marine layer, not that an extended May/June marine layer is a bad thing, no not at all.
Missed this post in the nonstop onslaught of July travel madness. I needed this distraction today as relax into the enforced break that covid has forced upon me. Nice to garden without all the effort for once. The photos with the golden (aralia?), blue melianthus, and pink lilies are my favorites at the moment, though the photos with the galvanized planter and the white Eryngium paniculatum are up there too.