Tuesday, June 16, 2015

June Blooms!

Thanks to Carol at http://www.maydreamsgardens.com for hosting Garden Blogger's Bloom Day. My natives have enjoyed the rain with many blooms:



Purple and white coneflowers in the dry back



My standing cypress and common sunflowers are taller than I am! Each year I plan to weed out some of the sunflowers since they take up so much room but they are so cheerful and easy that I always end up leaving them.


Turk's cap


Butterfly weed hoping to attract monarchs!


Volunteer passionflower vines that popped up near a convenient trellis (a handrail for my steps!). The vines are covered in Gulf Frittillary caterpillars in various stages- it is fun to watch the "nursery" in action.


Coral honeysuckle coming back after its huge spring bloom. I watched a hummingbird happily flit from this to my Peter's Purple Monarda multiple times this afternoon.


Society garlic- protected from the chickens (they think it's tasty..).


A Pride of Barbados bloom in the front. They are not native to Texas but they perform beautifully in dry sunny conditions.

Happy Garden Blogger's Bloom Day!

4 comments:

  1. And such happy blooms they are! I've never been successful with society garlic and it's such a pretty bloom. I love your passionflower. I have some, but they're all the caerulea, not that lovely purple fella. The butterfly weed is looking great; I have the tropical, not the native--good for you for growing it! Happy June blooms!

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  2. You have a lot to love here. I need to find a spot and try again for tall sunflowers. They bring me right back to being a child in my aunt's huge gardens - a feeling of being so small among so many large thriving plants. It was always a wonderland in her gardens and in my own garden, working as an "adult" I get lost in the responsibilities and sometimes lose the joy.

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  3. What a pretty collection! I love the native sunflowers. They really do seem full of cheer. And I must confess to some butterfly weed envy. 6 years later I still wait for mine to bloom. Every year they get eaten to the ground ... heh ...

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