Welcome to Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day for June 2023.
Here in my USDA hardiness zone 6a garden in central Indiana we are slowly getting into the swing of summer. Many spring blooms have faded but the flowers of high summer haven’t appeared yet.
The lightning bugs (or fireflies if you prefer) are appearing at dusk and we’ve had less rainfall than usual.
But there’s still a lot to see in the garden
First up, an unknown variety of a white flowering Clematis is clamoring up and over a shrub, as it does every year. In the foreground are spireas in bloom. Someday, I’ll find the tag for that clematis and then I’ll know what it is.
Elsewhere in the garden, there’s another clematis, Clematis x triternata ‘Rubromarginata’ that also climbs up over and through other plants.
The flowers at the bottom of the picture are of a hydrangea, also variety unknown!
Gosh, there’s a lot of “variety unknown” around this place!
I do know what this flower is. It’s Digitalis lutea, with the common name Straw Foxglove.
It’s starting to fade and I need to deadhead it because it likes to self-sow in the garden.
Shall we hurry along? There are lots of flowers to see in many bloom day posts, so we shall!
Finally, I bought this native plant last year and am happy to see it has returned.
And that’s Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day here.
What’s blooming in your garden on or around the 15th of the month? Join in for Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day and show us. It’s easy to participate. Post on your blog or social media account about the blooms in your garden, then come back here and leave a link in the Mr. Linky widget to direct us to your post and a comment to let us know what you have to show us.
And remember, “We can have flowers nearly every month of the year.” ~ Elizabeth Lawrence.
Beautiful flowers, we are experiencing peak of summer and awaiting for monsoon rain lash to get away with this scorching summer . Thanks for sharing with Garden affair.
Your garden is looking beautiful Carol with so many colorful blooms. It has been a busy time here in my Long Island garden with lots of new additions. The temperatures have been perfect for planting, so it has been full speed ahead! Happy Bloom Day and happy almost summer to you!
I enjoyed your natives, especially the Spigelia marilandica, a plant new to me. Lots of (for me) different plants I’ve never grown. Happy Almost Summer to you and hoping you haven’t been having problems with the smoky air.
That bee balm is completely delightful
You have quite a few lovely flowers this June. I’ve tried growing New Jersey Tea, and I still have one surviving plant left. I had two huge ones years ago, that eventually died as the back garden became too shady. It’s a plant I love to keep, but its love affair with my garden has apparently ended.
I love that straw foxglove and will have to look for it. Thanks, as always, for hosting, Carol.
Thanks for hosting! Beautiful blooms, Carol. The Spigelia plants look very happy there. Mine aren’t blooming yet…very soon. 🙂
I love the clamoring clematis. I wish I could crack the code of what makes them happy.
I was surprised to see Ceanothus americanus blooming in your garden, especially after just posting about the very similar Ceanothus sanguineus blooming in mine! Any possibility your Digitalis lutea might be D. grandiflora or another yellow flowered Digitalis species? Your flowers appear much larger than what I have seen in D. lutea and I don’t recall ever seeing speckling on the interior of the flower itself.
Jerry, It is possible that my digitalis is something other than what is on the label. I’ll do some further investigating!
Carol, Summer has been slow arriving in Maine, too. I don’t think my garden is as far behind yours as it usually is in June. Love your Spigelia.
Hi Carol, happy to see the Spigelia. It works for us too! Now if we could just get some rain…
I bought a New Jersey tea (Ceanothus americanus) a few years ago and it’s still alive but not thriving. Bought another this spring (a larger size) and am hoping both will eventually do well. So funny that you posted the Spigelia marilandica — it’s not hardy here but we were just in PA/DE at the great public gardens there and saw TONS of it, long swaths. My sister and I were quite taken with it, and she lives in Virginia where she can grow it. My ‘Rozanne’ geranium, and all those around here, will not be blooming this year at all as far as I can tell — a hard frost or freeze hit just at the wrong time and there are no flower buds on any of them; usually, it’s one of my more prolific and long-season plants. Thanks for hosting!
Lovely flowers, Carol! I enjoy seeing your New Jersey Tea especially since I recently planted one. It looks more like a twig though so it will be awhile before I see it bloom. Thanks for continuing to host bloom days.