Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – June 2025

Welcome to Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day for June 2025.

Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, it’s been a lovely month of blooms so far. We’ve had plenty of rain, and some sunshine too.

It’s been a while since I’ve since this much lush growth on some of these plants!

Let’s get started looking at a few of the blooms, beginning with Spigelia marilandica, also known as Indian Pinks, above. I think it’s a stunning native wildflower and have two in my garden. Who else loves these flowers? Hummingbirds love these flowers.

Further down from the Spigelia, one of the few roses in the garden is blooming too.

I don’t know what variety it is, and I don’t know where I got it, but chances are pretty good that it was a trial plant I picked up years ago. This is the best it’s every looked.

Across the garden, look at this stunning shrub.

This is a lovely hygrangea from Proven WInners. Which one? I suspect it is either Hydrangea arborescens ‘Invincibelle Spirit’ or ‘Invincibelle Spirit II.’ It has been outstanding and robust and will have those showy blooms almost all summer. It’s a native hydrangea, along with the Oakleaf Hydrangea, Hydrangea quercifolia.

I also got this oakleaf hydrangea as a trial plant. It was a little slip of a shrub in a one quart container. I planted it, and let it do its thing, which has been quite impressive. I’ve never had to trim it back. I don’t even trim off the old blooms year to year.

What else should we look at on this fine June day?

How about this lavender?

It’s been stunning like this for years. I wish I knew the variety, because I’d buy more of it.

(if you are detecting a common theme of “Carol doesn’t keep track of plant varieties,” you are observant.)

Another such “variety unknown” is this particular daylily.

I do have ‘Stella D’Oro’ daylilies, but you’ve seen those, so no picture.

And finally, since I know everyone is busy busy busy, I’m going to wrap this post up with some violas that are hanging on.

There are other blooms… clematis, snapdragons, straw foxglove, beebalm and more. I shall go out and enjoy as many of them as I can. I hope you can do the same in your garden.

And what’s blooming in your garden as we reach the middle of this month and celebrate Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day? It’s easy to participate. Post somewhere—blog, Instagram, Substack, etc.—about what’s blooming in your garden, then come back here and leave a link in the Mr. Linky widget to show us how to get to your bloom day post and add a comment to tell us what you have to show us.

And always remember,

“We can have flowers nearly every month of the year.” – Elizabeth Lawrence