{"id":104496,"date":"2024-07-16T02:09:33","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T06:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=104496"},"modified":"2024-07-16T02:14:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T06:14:30","slug":"july-2024-bloom-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=104496","title":{"rendered":"July 2024 Bloom Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Achnatherum calamagrostis, Kniphofia ‘Timothy’ and phormium<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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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.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Kniphofia ‘Timothy’ and Teucrium hircanicum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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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<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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heliopsis with deschampsia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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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.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Persicaria affinis new this summer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Patrinia is getting squeezed by sanguisorba and Persicaria polymorpha — decisions for next spring<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cirsium rivulare ‘Trevor’s Blue’ stretching as tall as Sanguisorba ‘Red Thunder’ and matching its intensity in color<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Eryngium paniculatum, cotula, salvias<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Morina longifolia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Eryngium variifolium<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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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.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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a bright fuchsia pink dierama blooming for the first time this July — misplaced the label<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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dark seed strain from Dancing Oaks, five flowering stems this summer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Allium ‘Millenium’ was moved out of the border and into the gravel area<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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couple phygelius in the garden, this one ‘Strawberry Blonde’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

More July bloom reports are collected by May Dreams Gardens<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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. More July bloom reports are collected … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-rbq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104496"}],"version-history":[{"count":49,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104546,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104496\/revisions\/104546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}