Saturday, August 13, 2011

GBBD - August 2011


So with the heat index, we had several days that hit 125 degrees this month! Not much is looking fresh and lively in my garden, especially when paired with a season's full of neglect. Here are some old reliables that manage to catch my attention and affection during these dog days of summer... To see a lot more, visit May Dreams Gardens!





This is a hosta with particularly large, gorgeous, and fragrant blooms lighting up the shady side of the garden.



Morning Glories - generally the bane of my existence, but they sure are pretty...

...see how they take over the roses (yes, there are supposed to be roses there) and the chain link fence? Not that either look especially attractive anyway... I have to tear out morning glory seedlings about twice a week all summer in order to keep things under control.. Obviously I have not done that this year.



Just some liriope and moonbean coreopsis - like I said, old reliables.


Echinacea looking really ratty, but the goldfinches don't mind.




One sole re-bloom from the clematis decorating the fescue below...


Gaura - still making it in this heat, but you have to get up pretty-early-in-the-morning to enjoy it. Literally. How is your garden faring?

15 comments:

  1. We never have that much flower blooming in our summer. Your beautiful garden has so many lovely bloom!

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  2. Hi Wendy, at least even with your heat you can still see flowers. In our case during our dry seasons, even the weeds dry up and evaporate. By the way that hosta looks like my mystery plant, and for a long time i thought is a hosta, till recently when blogger friends helped me identify it as Proiphys amboinensis.

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  3. Lovely blooms! I love the shot of the Gaura and the flame lily! Lovely.
    Happy GBBD :)

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  4. You don't have only a few blooms. You have many!

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  5. I really like your "old reliables" especially your lily and phlox and I don't have any naked pictures of Miley Cyrus or Miley anybody else.......:-)

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  6. Despite your hot temps, your garden looks lovely...such beautiful blooms. happy gbbd!

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  7. That's a lot of bloom in heat wave! Beautiful!

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  8. 125 degrees? OMG! I hope you got a little bit of a reprieve from the heat today for your GBBD inventory. You've got some deceptively delicate looking flowers powering through for you.

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  9. 125? Even with it being a heat index number it's astonishing what you have still blooming (and living)! Nice to be able to depend on plants like the Moonbeam coreopsis at a time like this. Your post is a nice compilation of some plants that might actually look okay at a tough time like this.

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  10. Yikes! 125? Really? Things are looking remarkably good...at any temp

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  11. Thanks for looking everyone!!

    Andrea, you may have just rocked my world with the Proiphys amboinensis idea. The foliage is definitely the same, but the flower looks a little different to me (at least from what's posted on the net). Looks like the Proiphys amboinensis leaves a large seedpod - I'll have to watch the "hosta" and see what happens...

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  12. I heart your morning glories. I'm a sucker for wild and crazy twining plants, though.
    Great photos for GBBD!

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  13. Your garden still loooks ok in spite of the heat Wendy. I like the clematis sitting on that plant - like a brooch ;-) Btw, that white gaura is pretty. My garden is used to the heat fortunately. And recently, I am enjoying the scented flowers that have blossomed. Have a great weekend!

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