I have a couple of varieties of agastache in bloom. Here is one. I love the coral shade and the hummingbirds like this one too.

This blanket flower has been a steady bloomer all summer. I need to deadhead but it is still going. It's such a fantastic red. Behind it is a new Anemone I got at the high school sale this year. I'm still waiting to see what it will do.

A new hollyhock this year in a dark burgundy.

I planted these dahlias in a pot in May and I finally have blooms. This is my first year for dahlias, and I must say, the blooms really are stunning. There are a bunch of tubers in this one pot and I'm not even sure if they are all the same or different since I got them from my mom.

Those all look great, popmama! I love the color on the agastache! I had never grown any but I got a plant on clearance and threw it in the ground; it's doing pretty well (the blossoms are orange). I also have some hollyhocks but they're mostly finished by now.

In my mom's garden, the Shasta daisies always bloom for just a few weeks in early summer - maybe there's another variety/species that blooms continuously?

I have Russian sage, cosmos, and mums blooming right now - I'll have to get a picture tomorrow. I also have some plants which were given to me and called Shasta daisies but which appear to be asters instead... they are just opening and promise to be beautiful!

Those are lovely asters. I have some like that but my plant seems to want to flop over. Floppy plants are my nemesis!

Summer is definitely winding down, and its not August I know, but at the end of the year this is my favorite garden spot:

In retrospect, I wouldn't have put the little bluestem in there, it doesn't "fit." I was warned about the soldagio, and it does spread, but its a fantastic late summer/early fall explosion of color when most other things are winding down for the year. The 'Dallas Blues' Panicum is tremendous, too. It also helps tgat that spots gets sprinkler water and before I planted the perennials, there was a pinon pine there for 35 years si all the needles that had fallen and decomposed really made the soil in that spot a nice rich loam. Its great for mixed/tall grass prairie species like these.

Aside from that though, theres not a lot left to look at besides seed heads and the 'Goldsturm' Rudbeckia, anothe star late in the season, and a rebloom on the 'Redrocks' Penstemon.

Nice! Zach, I love the yellow flowers. Is that the soldagio?

i have a few more August pictures I took after I posted. This one has sunflowers, echinacea, Russian Sage, rudbeckia, Johnson's Blue geranium, some last dianthus, and artemisia:

Here is a pic of my arches. I thought for sure they'd be covered by now, but I guess I'll have to wait for next year for the "living tunnel" effect that I'm trying to achieve. Those vines are purple hyacinth beans I've also put in a trumpet vine, some grapes, raspberries and climbing roses that are all still getting established:

Yes the yellow "sprays" are the Solidago (spp. canadensis I believe) which goes by the common name of goldenrod. I don't quite remember the variety, but I think it might be 'fireworks'.

Your tunnels are going to look awesome once they fill in! The trumpet vine is a cool one! Definitely a nice choice!