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Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – July 2022

July 15, 2022 By Carol 17 Comments

Welcome to Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day for July 2022.

Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, I feel like I’m in-between high summer blooms and early fall blooms. I suspect the dry weather has delayed some flowers and caused other plants to bloom and be done with it.

Dry weather? Well, not last night, when a thunderstorm whipped through in the early evening and left .60 inches of much-needed rain on the garden. Though I don’t like to complain because—rain—I think the plants would have liked that rain delivered much more slowly. Anyway, let’s see what else is blooming other than the daylily Hemerocallis ‘Hyperion’ a variety which harkens back to the 1920s and Agastache ‘Blue Fortune’, both pictured above in a planting by the utility box near the sidewalk. (Yes, Dee, my award-winning podcast co-host, I deadheaded the daylily before I took the picture!)

I found a few other blooms as I walked around the garden early on the morning of the 14th.

This hardy hibiscus would like to announce its arrival with great big pink flowers. I’m sorry I don’t know which variety this is.
And these much smaller pink flowers on Coreopsis rosea merely whisper their presence. I let them self-sow by the front walkway. They’ll bloom all summer for me.
I should really take the time to get a better picture of this wild petunia, Ruellia humilis, one that doesn’t show a few dandelions I need to pull. This is another plant that self-sows wherever it wants to, like dandelions do.
Of course I have coneflowers, Echinacea sp. Here are a few being overlooked by the last of the giant lilies, which mostly bloomed in between June and July bloom days, missing out on both.
And you knew it was coming. I’m still letting violas grow wherever they self-sow themselves. This one is back in the vegetable garden near where I sowed seeds for zinnias. I didn’t sow the zinnia seeds until nearly the last day of May so they need a bit more time before they are ready for a bloom day post.

And that’s Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day here at May Dreams Gardens for July 2022.

What’s blooming in your garden as we reach the high days of summer? Join in for Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day and show us. Post on your blog about your blooms, then come back here and leave a link in the Mr. Linky widget so we can find you and a comment to tell us what you have for us to see.

Always remember, “We can have flowers nearly every month of the year.” ~ Elizabeth Lawrence. (And go read this blog post about a special flower growing in her garden!)

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  1. Lisa says

    July 15, 2022 at 12:55 am

    Happy Bloom Day!
    Is ‘Hyperion’ very tall, and the flowers lemon yellow? If so, I think that’s what I grew from seeds I “stole” from the library’s plants two years ago! The started blooming a few days ago, and I was delighted they are tall and lemon yellow.

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  2. Lee@A Guide to Northeastern Gardening says

    July 15, 2022 at 7:24 am

    Happy Bloom Day! We got the same thunderstorms yesterday afternoon and the lawn and garden is loving greener! Your coreopsis, echinacea, lilies and hibiscus are looking so pretty and I love that you still have your violas popping up and surprising you! The wild petunia is interesting too. There are lots of blooms here on Long Island. Come take a look!

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  3. Arun Goyal says

    July 15, 2022 at 7:31 am

    What a lovely hibiscus blooming, We are experiencing sluggish monsoon up till now and humid and hot weather has been persistent from a month now . Thanks for hosting Garden Bloggers blooms day.

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  4. Barb Rogers says

    July 15, 2022 at 9:11 am

    What sweet violas…of course! Love that hibiscus and echinacea. I’ve been posting about a garden tour we had a week ago (or so)…here’s the 3rd house we visited…there were 2 other lovelies before and 3 to go.

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  5. Kris P says

    July 15, 2022 at 11:11 am

    I’d love to have a rain-delivering thunderstorm move through here but, although that happens in summer once in awhile, it’s not likely – we’ll probably remain bone dry until at least October. You’re garden looks very cheerful. I can’t imagine violas at this time of year but I can appreciate them. Thanks, as always, for hosting GBBD!

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  6. LL says

    July 15, 2022 at 11:56 am

    I really like the Ruellia, it’s definitely a pretty “weed”. Hopefully they’re easier to pull out where they’re not wanted than the dandelions. Happy Bloom Day!

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  7. danger garden says

    July 15, 2022 at 12:03 pm

    Love that pink hibiscus, with all those buds it looks like you’ve got plenty more big blooms on the way too.

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  8. Dorothy A. Borders says

    July 15, 2022 at 2:04 pm

    Lovely blooms. Thanks for hosting Bloom Day once again.

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  9. Alana says

    July 15, 2022 at 5:09 pm

    Happy Bloom Day. We have been teased by thunderstorms a few times, but have gotten just enough rain to supplement all our watering. Your hisbiscus is lovely. Ours hasn’t started blooming yet.

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  10. tomthebackroadstraveller says

    July 15, 2022 at 9:58 pm

    …I waiting for my hardy hibiscus to flower. Thanks for hosting the party.

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  11. Jane / MulchMaid says

    July 16, 2022 at 1:06 am

    I had no idea there was a wild petunia! Ruellia is new to me, and I wonder if it doesn’t grow in Oregon. My Astoria garden is about as flowery as it gets this month. Thank you for hosting Bloom Day!

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  12. Candi @ minhus says

    July 16, 2022 at 12:31 pm

    Happy bloom day! I love that daylily and agastache combo at the top, so striking!

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  13. Dee says

    July 16, 2022 at 2:33 pm

    Hey Carol, that color combo of Hyperion and Agastache Blue Fortune is classic! Happy Bloom Day and thanks for hosting every month. See you soon on the podcast. ~~Dee

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  14. Jean at Jean's Garden says

    July 16, 2022 at 9:40 pm

    Carol, We are in drought conditions here in Maine, too, and I hand-water a few plants that are looking particularly sad. Otherwise, they are on their own. My garden is still a little behind yours. Agastache just started to bloom (next to Hemerocallis citrina, an ancestor of Hyperion). I do have Hyperion elsewhere in my garden, but it hasn’t started to bloom yet. I do love the heady floral display of high summer.

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  15. Molly Williams says

    July 16, 2022 at 9:49 pm

    Never heard of wild petunias before — very pretty. Also like the self-seeding violas. Thanks for hosting!

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