We had flooding rains for weeks this spring, and now no rain for two weeks and very hot temps and high humidity… so I’m having to water most every day. Still, I love this time of year. Here are just a few of the many snapshots I have taken in my yard this week.
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Prairie Mallow (Sidalcea malviflora)
This very tall flower was supposed to have been red. :) I like it anyway.
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4′ tall, White and Purple Veronica in my front flower bed
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One of many, many clumps of Coneflowers in my yard.
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‘Nikko Blue’, this is the bluest of my hydrangeas ~ light amethyst Astilbe
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Small lamp post bed with pentas, angelonia, salvia, celosia ~ Iron Cross Oxalis with purple shamrocks and baby hostas and heucheras in the secret garden
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In-ground fountain in the secret garden, surrounded by hostas and astilbes. The led lights in this fountain cycle through several different colors
and at night, it lights up the tree canopy overhead with glowing colors.
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I love summer flowers! My white speedwell is flowering but the purple is still spiking.
Me too, Jim. Love the Veronica, I finally had to stake and tie it, it was getting so much taller than last year!
I normally tie up the white one. Since my last reply, it has fallen open and is done blooming. I have pruned it back where new flower stalks are emerging and cleaned it up a bit. The purple one is still going strong. I wish I knew which cultivar it was, I’d get more, it doesn’t open up like the white.
Jim, if you cut back the white one maybe it will bloom again? I constantly snip on mine, both the white and the purple and they seem to bloom continuously. Mine were so big, they fell over in the rain yesterday (even staked), and I had to tie the entire clump to the fence. That’s one reason I have that wire fence along the back side of that perennial bed, for the support.
What a delightful blog!
You are a gardener after my own heart.
Do you spend all day in your garden?
Thank you, Kelly Ann. I do love gardening and most days, I spend a whole lot of time there. :)
Thanks for visiting.
Also I love your prairie mallow. Does that need to be staked eventually?
Thanks Jim. Yes it does need to be staked. It’s a little more than 4 feet tall and blooms from multiple side shoots off of one main stem, so it definitely needs some kind of support.