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Thanks everybody, I'm enjoying the photos and the commentary so much ! We are lucky to have had a nice June after a quite chilly spring

My valentine bleeding heart has enjoyed our cool spring, not flopping

My first blue poppy shows its amazing blue... today was a bit overcast and the colors showed up in an outstanding way, summer arrived overnight, Happy Solstice !

Kiwi vine

I'm so anticipating the Siberian Iris opening up, the orange of the geum and purple is my favorite .

NOID Lilium asiaticum. Many of you know I love orange but this one is almost a bit much, even for me. What I ordered was 'African Queen' - a fragrant trumpet lily, but this is what grew from the bulbs.

I know flowers are not the attraction for rodgersia but this variety always has appealing pink ones this time of year:

Double Play DOOZIE Spirea:

Persicaria Polymorpha:

Pink peace, sarah bernhardt peony and lily

Yellow Canna

Wild Petunia, Ruellia humulis, Verbena bracteata, Plantago rugeli and Partridge pea. Plantago rugeli is native and it looks almost identical to the non-native Plantago major. I want to try growing Ruellia strepens next year.

Rattlesnake Master, Eryngium yuccifolium. The 1st people made shoes from it's high fiber, leather-like leaves. Oregano and Rosemary.

Baptisia tinctoria has smaller flowers than B. austrilus. Surrounded by Black Eyed Susans and Partridge peas.

I've just got around to growing this Blue Mistflower, perennial Ageratum Conoclinium coelistinum. I can already see that it's an aggresive spreader.

I love the simplicity of Hydrangea arborescens. Having only 4 sterile flowers is perfection.

I grew Drummond's Phlox from seed. Inspired by and dedicated to Suzy Jackson. The colors are delightful. I got the seeds from Wildseed Farms in Texas. Wildseed Farms is my go to place for Ipomopsis rubra and Coreopsis tinctoria seeds. They may sell a few non-natives African Daisy, Dame's Rocket and Baby's Breath. I so hope these Phlox will self sow and naturalize. Photos can't capture how incredible they really are.

Textures of Cerastium arvense, Viola pedatifida, Viola odorata and Drummond's Phlox at 11 o:clock.

Blanketflower and Canada Wild Rye

Mishmash of pots and birdbaths. The Petunia exserta are happy. Looks like the Lantana could use some fertilizer.

Canna ehemanii

Graceful, spectacular, and decidedly different, this landmark Canna is topped by arching sprays of dangling, bell-shaped, deep rose flowers that may remind you of Fuchsia. Though widely praised by Victorian gardeners, it's a challenge to store and ship so it all but dissapeared in the 20th century. But now it's back and absolutely thrilling. 5-8 feet, big green leaves, zones 8a-11b or winter indoors.

Old House Gardens.

@lat62, the blor poppy is amazing

Great pics @jim1961 Central Pennsylvania Zone 6a and @Jay 6a Chicago.

My Pritchard's campanula is looking pretty decent this year: (I purposely left space so I can walk behind the plants, there's 4' between the house and plants for maintenance and such, I need a small access path)

view from the other direction:

Spigelia are looking particularly good this year, I think due to the abundant moisture we've had. Here are the clumps in the back of the house (there's a fourth one toward the end of the path but you can't really see it in the photo, it's between the Fothergilla):

Dahlia Mystic Enchantment & Iochroma cyaneum.

Spigelia marilandica Ragin Cajun

First blooms on agapanthus after 2/3 year wait, newly acquired Don Juan, lisianthus, Raindance and Rebecca clematis.

I love the leaves on the begonia. Newly acquired sweet mademoiselle has excellent fragrance. The scabiosa and raindance are bloom machines. The peony is my first real blooms in 8 years.

More from May. The cattleya burana beauty just opened yesterday.

Amazing, @getgoing100_7b_nj!

@heruga if you're out there, be sure to take a look at the previous few posts to see what you can do with a balcony.

Thanks, @indianagardengirl. Some pics of the balcony. I am still waiting for the late started/volunteer zinnias, gladioli, morning glories and sunflowers. Next comr china aster, petunias and snapdragons. Thinking of sowing some stocks, alyssum, scabiosa and geums...

GetGoing - you really do a bang up job on your patio! Looks like you are having a great time. lol And getting hummers so high up, is so interesting. Although why would it be a surprise. You had a lot of color in May. It has been a weird weather year so yes, some things are late. Looking forward to more photos when the rest start blooming.

Gorgeous all! Missed May and almost missed June. I am having trouble, only the first pic will resolve but more added will not.

Cypripedium reginae Showy Lady's Slipper

Will try again. No joy, now no pics will resolve and they are resized.

Come on @peren.all Zone 5a Ontario Canada, we all want to see your June pics!

(Oops I see you were able to get up that "Lady's Slipper"....that is incredibly beautiful. It is clearly hardy given your location. If I can ask, where did you acquire it?)

@peren.all Zone 5a Ontario Canada, the Lady’s slippers are super elegant

We are heading for a vacation. I have removed all the roses buds and new growth where I can in fear of the Japanese beetles

The glance before we leave for Canada

Thank you rouge & forever.

rouge several years back a neighbour called and asked me to come over. He had changed his eavestroughing and was concerned that his Showy Lady;s Slipper would not get enough moisture. He asked if I would take half of his in case his did not survive. I was of course more than happy to! Well they both survived and that is the story.

Thanks, Prairiemoon. Some years i starts 100s of seeds and early indoors, some years none. This year i got into it late. It has been the turn of my orchids to get neglected. I have barely watered them, let alone fertilize. They have got back at me by dying or refusing to bloom....regarding hummingbirds, i am only on the fourth floor, so not that high. It is much harder to get them to visit much here in jersey city, more so on a balcony. This is probably my 4th or 5th year and i finally get some semi regulars. I have had at least a couple hummer fights last year and one today. Two females, that i thought were a single visitor got into and I feel oddly contended. :)

Peren, those ladyslippers are the source of my envy. I remember pics feom last year as well. You really lucked out on those.

Jay, i have the same issue with pentas. The only ones available are dwarf and do not appwar to make any seeds. I ha e overwintered them off and on but tjey never really get big enough even horizontally and eventually die...

Year two for Wanda phlox in 2 sections of my garden. Under my redbud and some outback with haas halo hydrangea and serviceberry bush behind them that need to fill in. Great phlox. Highly suggest buying one if you see it

Coneflowers and bee balm

Milkweed

Coreopsis, Shasta daisy and some yarrow

Trying again.

Peony Bartzella. Is anyone else having trouble? Normally I can post 10 resized pics. I had to try 3 times to post 1.

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Woodland Sunflower Helianthus divaricatus. Leaves can be sessile or have short petioles.

Gerbera Daisy

Showy Milkweed, Asclepias speciosa

Flowering Spurge is starting to bloom. Euphorbia corrolata.

This is supposed to be Hypericum kalmianum. Time will tell.

Tall Blue Verbena, Verbena hastata

Yellow Canna

I'm amazed at how excited the bumblebees get over my Hydrangea arborescens flowers. The 4 sterile flowers may be signals to lure pollinators. How sad when they show up to find no pollen or nectar rewards on those infertile flowers that totally make up some cultivars.

Milky Way and Red Velvet Penunia, Red Nicotiana and Dwarf Stumpy Red Pentas.

3 native weedy seeders, Partridge Pea, Chamaecrista fasciculata, Bitter Sneezeweed, Helenium amarum, and Bracted Verbena, Vetbrna bracteata. The Helenium will stay short of it has no taller competition, but it will grow taller to compete. The Verbena starts looking bad when the bracts begin to get l

'm not going to continue growing it.

Lead Plant, every prairie and meadow should have them. Amorpha canescens.

Peony Red Charm

Woodland Sunflower Helianthus divaricatus.

@Jay 6a Chicago, I love this plant as it blooms just beautifully in very low light conditions. Our stand grows slowly each year. Not in flower yet.

I totally agree with everything you just said rouge. I love the dark stems too.

This Helianthus divaricatus vollunteer is the beginning of my clump.

I have a hillside that I'd love to be filled with this. At the forest preserve.

Now that i see it, I want some on my hillside too. Ive got a thousand geranium macrorizzzum but nothing blooming when they are finished in mid-late June. Do they spread quickly? it is possible Rouge sent me seeds several years ago but I think my planting failed.

Sky blue delphinium, snaps, lace leaf elder and first blooms on hagley hybrid clematis

Purple clematis, john davis rose. I was envisioning the john davis climbing… but no, I guess

Buttered popcorn daylily. Bought this online after seeing a pic of it somewhere. Shasta daisy along with my asparagus and montmorency cherry in the background. Never got around to cleaning up this bed yet.

Another great daylily rocket city

St. John’s wort cultivar sunburst. Bees going crazy today on it. You can hear them all from far away

Dakota burgundy pestemon which I bought after seeing it on this feed. Sitting with bluebird aster and newer variety milkweed. I know everyone on here has a pile of plants sitting right now lol.

I thought these were done. They, like me,

prefer July 4th over Christmas.

Merry Christmas! I suspect the recent monsoon-like long torrential rains made them come into flower.

Hibiscus trionum always shows up somewhere. I will leave them if they aren't in the way.

Salvia farinacea

Agrimonia. I have added a few new Rosaceae species like Spheralcea, Drymocallis, Geum allepicum, Spirea alba, Filipendula rubra, Rosa seterigera and another local Agrimonia.

https://youtu.be/5UjlSlNFTRM?is=EPk8sRv7pFeCbzuu

I just added Water Hemlock, Cicuta virosa.😃

Just a few things :

I like this columbine - I have sooo many crazy columbine at the end of their blooming now

And one more blue poppy

James my Rocket City came into bloom yesterday. What a gorgeous daylily, isn't it? I have that and Primal Scream and I can't decide which is more eye-catching and beautiful. I'm so glad for once that I am so indecisive and bought both!

:)

Dee

Duh, I posted to last months thread. Lat62 your garden is amazing. I have no idea what half of your plants are.

It pops in the garden Dee! Very hard to miss. Looks like I may need some primal scream now !

Jay, i have no idea what 3/4 of your plants are! Your gardening is on an entirely different level than mine

i was scrolling quickly and the photo of a blue poppy came up.I thought i was still on your post and couldnt believe you had a blue poppy as well! Then realized we would have heard about your blue poppy long ago .Going back more slowlycleared up my confusion about whose post i was reading. But wouldnt that be an accomplishment to raise a blue poppy outdoors in a Chicago climate?

Notice i did not discount the possibility that you could do it.

Question In the photo of the hyperion, are natcissis blooming? i was confused because the dafs are the dominant items in the photo.

@Marie Tulin Boston burbs z 6a, you are spot on re your comments of @Jay 6a Chicago. This forum is lucky to have him.

I thought these were done

Jay, I love amaryllis. I bet I have close to 15 potted up and I have them throughout the garden, still in their pots and it is always fun to discover one of these plants showing a bloom stalk during the summer months.

Rouge, I thought I had taken my Amarylis out of dormancy too soon. I didn't think there was a chance they would bloom. It has 4 flowers.

Marie, I've thought about growing Meconopsis but I think it wouldn't like my hot and humid summer. I can't grow the red and blue flowered Trapaeolum vines from Chile for the same reason. I grew some Prickly Poppies last year.