Gorgeous Summer Garden Blooms

June 20, 2009

It's blazing hot here... not just blazing hot, but extremely humid. It's when this muggy heat hits that it becomes really easy to abandon the garden! Nevertheless, with proper planning, you can still have lovely blooms in the garden through the dog days of summer. Only the tough ones make it into my summer garden because they are not going to get any pampering...

An almost white fragrant daylily... the variety name is escaping me.

white daylily

white daylily
PC: Leslie F. Halleck

Thunbergia grandiflora (sky vine) blooming earlier this year than I've ever seen it... and some stunning bronze fennel in bloom.

Sky vine Thunbergia

Sky vine Thunbergia
PC: Leslie F. Halleck

Bronze fennel in bloom

Bronze fennel in bloom
PC: Leslie F. Halleck

And a second flush of blooms from rose 'Perle d'Or'.

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