What's blooming in your yard?

[marstec]

Feeling hot, hot , hot...I was at Costco on the weekend, and quite a few customers had fans in their carts!

My Jackman clematis is just starting its show...It bloomed until frost last year!
Last picture is a zinnia I have growing in the front yard. The slugs like my zinnias last year, so I am hoping this location is better than in the back yard.

[Patty Smyth]

New baskets on the wall, $5 EACH on clearance at WM. FLowers full price at the nursery $3 each but next year I will put impatiens in them because it doesn't get enough sun there. If you look between the hostas I snuk in a couple of Blue Angel clematis

[marstec]

You got a great deal on those planters, Patty. They look great, and your begonias are incredible!

[BC Gal]

Great color on that clematis Marstec. Nice score on the planters Patty and beautiful flowers and hostas. Great pics gals

Here are a couple more pics I took of flowers in my yard:

azalea

bleeding heart

[marstec]

What an intense pink, BC Gal! Love the bleeding heart picture, I'd be tempted to make an enlargement and use it for decoration.

[Patty Smyth]

Beautiful BC GAL!

[BC Gal]

Thanks The first time I saw a bleeding heart was just a couple years ago; I couldn`t believe how perfect the hearts were and had to get one. It a great plant, especially since it can be hard to find shade loving perennials that bloom so well.

[GoJays]

do yours bloom all summer BC Gal? mine won't quit til the frosts hit

[BC Gal]

do yours bloom all summer BC Gal? mine won't quit til the frosts hit

Really, they do that?? No mine only bloom until like May. Maybe once the sun is high enough in the sky to hit them all day they stop. Right now they are a little yellow looking

[BC Gal]

Here's a pic of my honeysuckle (with some cedar tree mixed in)

[GoJays]

the honeysuckle is lovely
my bleeding hearts are still going strong.. i was shocked last summer when i first noticed that they were blooming for the whole season.. and the plant is huge!

[marstec]

I think the fern leafed bleeding hearts bloom all season...the regular ones usually go dormant with the heat.

It's been so hot this past few days, but the plants love it!

Here are a few in bloom today:
Blue Delphinium...comes back every year, although some people say they are short-lived.
Next is Madame Julia Correvon clematis. I should really get a taller lattice for it...it's scrambling all over the place.
Then there's White Pixels Asiatic lilies.
Last is a bonus...this is a clivia that is blooming indoors...normally it doesn't bloom at this time.

[Tbites]

I could SCREEEEEAM, in fact I did let out a scream in the garden.

The local squirrels chewed the head (which was about to blossom) right off my sunflower, urrgh. Apparently birdseed and peanut butter & crackers isn't enough for them. This is a large seeded tall sunflower..... I'm guessing that's the end of her ? She won't magically grow another head ?

(Sorry no pic, lent my camera for the next 2 weeks.)

ETA: Based on this blog post, looks like there's hope for another blossom.... maybe

[Patty Smyth]

That used to happen to me all the time, I gave up on sunflowers

[GoJays]

aww crap, mine is growing right beside the fence.. easy access for the little vermin.. what to do, what to do.. hmmm...