Welcome to Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day for July 2023.
Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, it’s been quite the summer so far.
We need some rain, though we’ve gotten some rain in the past few weeks. We need more! But not with strong winds like those that ripped through here in late June, taking down so many power lines…
But my garden survived more or less intact. It doesn’t need electricity to grow!
So let’s see what’s in bloom.
Above is the first bloom on the Double Tiger Lily, Lilium lancifolium ‘Flore Pleno’, which decided to open so it could be included. It’s near the vegetable garden, so let’s stay there and see what else is in bloom in that area.
And that’s it for my Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day post.
What’s blooming in your garden during the high summer days of July? Join in and show us. Post on your blog or somewhere about what’s blooming in your garden, then come back here and leave a link in the Mr. Linky widget so we can find you, and a comment so we know what you have to show us. All are welcome!
And as Elizabeth Lawrence once wrote, “We can have flowers nearly every month of the year.”
All blooms are beautiful, these are spring blooming flowers in my region. I am stunned by Tiger Lily blooms. Thanks for wonderful link up party blog on gardening .
You’re welcome. Those double tiger lilies are surprisingly easy to grow!
Your garden is looking very colorful for July and I love the Tiger lilies, ‘Rozanne’ Geranium and France Williams Hosta and Allium ‘Millenium;. The hosta still looks magnificent despite the sun! I just finally purchased some Allium Millenium for my garden after admiring them for years at client’s houses, so hopefully they do well. Here on Long Island, the temperatures have been in the upper 80’s and everything is in bloom with more on the way!
Lee, I’m going to guess that the Allium ‘Millenium’ do great in your garden.
Thanks for hosting, Carol! It’s a wonderful time of year in the Midwest, isn’t it? We’ve had some welcome recent rains, which have helped to lessen the drought. Hope we’ll both get more precip in the days to come.
Beth,
It is a wonderful time of the year in the Midwest, and I’m grateful that we haven’t had the heat that some areas of the country have right now!
Your plants looked so cared for with all the constraints of the weather. Easy to see you look at plants from their points of view!
Thanks for continuing the Garden Blogger Bloom Day for all of us to gather.
Brenda, You’re welcome!
I love your orange Celosia, will definitely be growing this in my garden next year! And follow your advice to grow more of my flowers from seed. Your garden looks so lush–can you send some rain this way?
Elena… my garden got about 1.5 inches a week ago, but we could use some more, so let’s share the rain, okay?
You have a great variety of blooms this month. My favorite may (because there are so many to choose from) be the double orange snapdragons. I’ve never seen that variety. The orange celosia is lovely, too – I must be in an orange mood today, along with admiring the alliums and geraniums.
Alana, the double orange snapdragons are a fairly new variety. All-America Selections sent me seeds for them… but you should be able to buy seeds now from major seed companies.
Lots of color in your summer garden! That you have sweet peas and zinnias blooming at the same time seems remarkable to me. Even though my sweet peas were very late to bloom this year, I pulled them out at the end of June, largely because the foliage was badly mildewed, courtesy of a persistent marine layer. And because all my cool season flowers hung around later due to our cooler-than-usual temperatures (courtesy of the marine layer), my zinnias weren’t even sown until late June. But summer’s first heatwave has reached us and we’ve no hope of rain until October.
“Persistent marine layer” isn’t something we experience in the Midwest. Sounds like it can really mess up your timing in the garden!
Hi Carol, lovely to join in with this month’s Blooms Day after a long absence. I can send some of our rain your way if you still want some. After June’s drought conditions, we’ve now had more than July’s usual share and we’re only half way through the month! I’ve found an unexpected bloom in my garden this month, though it’s most welcome 🙂
Yes, please, send me some rain! I loved your unexpected bloom!
I love your zinnias. I really wish I could grow sweet peas, but they always seem to die in the heat before they even get started.
Candi, this is the first time in a long time that I’ve had sweet peas bloom this late. I’m going to leave them as long as they are blooming. (And I see pods are forming, so clearly I should be picking more to enjoy indoors.0
Hi Carol, I’m late as usual but happy to see your abundance of allium. It’s one of my favorites. Like you I could use more water this year…
And I got some! Not much but a little bit Sunday evening.
Love the riot of color in your July garden! (I wish I knew how to send you some of our rain.)
Jean… I just got a bit of rain so maybe you DO know how to send some! Thank you!
I also love the ‘Rozanne’ geranium — long bloom, and as you say, just the right amount of chaos. Envy your ability to grow the orange celosia. And that garden with the sweet peas is lovely. Please, come take some of our rain; usually we have 8 inches over June and July , but this year, with still two more weeks to go in July, we’ve already received 16 inches, much of it in heavy thunderstorms, and more is forecast. So soggy. I have not had to water anything since May.
Molly, that is very soggy! I took .25 inches of rain last night. Hope that helps you and me!