Mid-July Flowers

We are in nature’s gardens every day, mostly hiking in the hills, paddling on lakes, and exploring the grasslands, forests, and ridges of the area. We also are in the garden every day, taking on the usual tasks of landscaping, weeding, deadheading, transplanting, harvesting, and whatever maintenance needs to be done. We take the time to appreciate the wide variety of plants, many of which are flowering in summer. Some of these are shared here, in an embedded slideshow or via a link to a Google Photos album.

daylily (Hemerocallis sp.)	lily (Lilium sp.)	hollyhocks (Alcea rosea)
Echinacea	hens-and-chicks (Sempervivum sp.)	Gaillardia
Clematis	Monarda	mallow (Malva sp.)
stonecrop (Sedum sp.)	yarrow (Achillea sp.)	Heliopsis
Delphinium	Coleus	Plectranthus
Rudbeckia	Coreopsis	Snapdragons (Antirrhinium)
Gazania	Coral bells (Heuchera)	Cosmos
forget-me-nots (Myosotis sp.)	Maltese cross (Silene chalcidonica)	Spiked speedwell (Veronica sp.)
Penstemon

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The gallery (with captions) can also be viewed at this link – Mid-July Garden

Notes:

Long term flowering perennials have been part of the flower gardens for 48 years. This includes daylilies, lilies, sedums, phlox, hostas, bleeding hearts, Clematis, Rudbeckia, and others.
Some of the flowers are self-seeded or are volunteers – forget-me-not, cosmos, snapdragons, mallow, flax, and hollyhocks. Some of these need to be pulled out if there are too many or they are growing in the wrong spot.
Many are featured plants, placed in strategic spots. We always have Gaillardia, Heuchera, and Echinacea, and a few others.
A few are grown from seed, often requiring two years to reach maturity. There are more in the greenhouse, once as seedlings, now in pots, to be placed out in the fall.
Not included in this post are flowering herbs, flowering vegetables, flowering shrubs, and early spring flowers. Late summer flowers are still to come.