{"id":102677,"date":"2023-07-10T11:11:37","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T15:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=102677"},"modified":"2023-07-10T11:11:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T15:11:37","slug":"july-surges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=102677","title":{"rendered":"July surges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On drives through the coast range I note the prominence of naturalized foxgloves in bloom is being replaced by fireweed (epilobium), the color and shape so similar that I didn’t notice the change at first. Around town rhododendrons are done, hydrangeas, dahlias and Shasta daisies are up. In my garden, July brings the penstemons and agastache into bloom, the first dahlias, Digitalis parviflora (but not D. ferruginea yet), the cool season grasses, sanguisorba, the double-flowered sterile form of Lychnis coronaria in screaming magenta, gaura, Watsonia pillansi, Lobelia tupa, patrinia, Rudbeckia triloba. Oregon Sunshine, Eriophyllum lanatum, has been cut back just as the echinacea are budding iup. Geum is having a second flush of bloom. Needless to say, July shows how I like plants in concentrated doses, where juxtapositions of leaves, shapes, and colors fire off each other. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from the patio against the house<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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in the furthest stocktank looking east, Cassinia leptophylla subsp fulvida aka the Golden Bush, one of my fav shrubs in the garden. No luck with cuttings yet.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Anisodontea ‘Strybing Beauty’ and the hummingbirds are having a lovefest. A runner has escaped the tank and is growing in the strip of soil between tank and patio. A cutting is being trialed in the open garden to see how it handles winter there <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Between the cool-season grasses and the warm-season grasses like miscanthus now filling out, the garden is heading into grassland territory. There’s some formula out there that says no more than 30% grass — I may have exceeded that ratio a bit. The giant with the red stems behind the phormium is a eupatorium, also budding up.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Never saw blooms on Anemanthele lessoniana in zone 10, another surprise<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Only one bloom stalk from two clumps of Eryngium ‘Big Blue’ this year — it bloomed better in its first year. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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fasciated bloom on Digitalis parviflora showing some love<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A foxglove I’ve long wanted to grow — very exciting to watch its development<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lysimachia ‘Beaujolais’ showing staying power into July<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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and now it’s surrounded by some good leaves like melianthus and astralia which are just now making size<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dianthus barbatus ‘Oeschberg’ and sanguisorba hitting the same color notes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Achnatherum calamagrostis arches its plumes outward with a vase-like symmetry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Helianthus ‘Lemon Queen’ in front of achnatherum was cut down by half in June — the “Chelsea chop”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Deschampsia ‘Goldtau’ is a disorganized fizz of bloom. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Purple spikes coloring up are Teucrium hircanicum. Big leaves are an unnamed species of salvia from Szechuan from Flowers by the Sea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Penstemon ‘Cha-Cha Purple’ is one of the best dark-colored varieties I’ve grown. Healthy leaves, strong growth. Penstemon ‘Raven’ is still way behind in growth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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July ramped up growth on a cardoon planted in spring <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Rudbeckia trilloba<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Agastache ‘Blue Boa’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Two 5-foot stalks of Watsonia pillansii came up in July<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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more lilies continue to open<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A seedling from Malva sylvestris ‘Zebrina’ that was miserable in the garden last year, much happier in a stock tank<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Filipendula ‘Red Umbrellas’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A closeup of the leaves would have been more helpful — maple-shaped, red venation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Hebe ‘Western Hills’ — new to hebes and still thinking of them as foliage plants, the flowers are a surprise!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Morina longifolia sending up a bloom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bulbine abyssinica looks like it’s going to seed, but it does this before opening blooms!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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