Bloom Day - June 2023

I'm posting my photos for Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day a day early this month.  I'm not going to replicate the laborious approach I took last month.  This time around, with a few exceptions, I've organized my photos by color rather than the area the plants were growing in.  I've highlighted a few blooms in each category, throwing the rest into collages.

Yellow Flowers

This Helichrysum thianschanicum 'Icicles' isn't a plant I'd usually show off in a Bloom Day post.  In fact, I generally cut off the flowers as soon as they appear but I didn't have the energy to do that this year.  I let it do its thing and I discovered I like it!

Achillea 'Moonshine' is a summer star.  I thought much of it had died back last year and I'd been looking for replacement plants when it showed up looking as good as ever.

Crassula pubescens produces stems with tiny yellow flowers every year at this time.  With sun exposure, the leaves and stems turn red but there's been relatively little sun of late.

Clockwise from the upper left are: Arctotis 'Large Marge', Cotula 'Tiffindell Gold' (which seemingly returned from the dead this year), Helichrysum amorginum 'Ruby Clusters' (shown after the ruby buds turn yellow), Hymenolepis crithmifolia, Leucospermum 'High Gold' (mixed with yellow Gazanias), Dyckia choristaminea 'Frizzle Dazzle', Tagetes lemmonii, and Santolina chamaecyparissus

Orange Flowers

I inherited this plant with the garden and I'm still not sure whether its Campsis grandiflora or Bignonia capreolata but I'm going with the latter

Grevillea 'Superb' is still pumping out blooms like there's no tomorrow

Top row: Aloe striata x maculata, Callistemon 'Cane's Hybrid', and Cuphea 'Vermillionaire' Second row: Digitalis purpurea 'Dalmatian Peach', Graptoveria 'Fred Ives', and Grevillea 'Poorinda Leane' Third row: Grevillea 'Peaches & Cream' shrub and floral closeup and Lantana 'Irene'

Red Flowers

Feijoa sellowiana (pineapple guava) still in full flower.  The flowers of a second tree have been stripped off by mockingbirds but they seem to have ignored this one.

Clockwise from the upper left: Gaillardia 'Arizona Sun', Helleborus 'Anna's Red', Hemerocallis 'Spanish Harlem', Lobelia laxiflora, Lotus berthelotii 'Amazon Sunset', and Pelargonium peltatum 'Dark Burgundy'

Pink Flowers

Centranthus ruber is no longer at its peak but it's still plentiful

Epiphyllum 'Monastery Garden', potted up in 2018, just produced its first bloom and there are more buds.  I caught the bloom a little past its prime I think.

Clockwise from the upper left: Arctotis 'Pink Sugar', noID Dianathus, Grevillea sericea, closeup of Cistus 'Sunset' followed by a larger photo of the shrub, and Oenothera speciosa

White Flowers

Arthropodium cirratum (Renga lily) is in full flower

Pandorea jasminoides and Trachelospermum jasminoides have joined forces

The Matilija poppies (Romneya coulteri) are still blooming at the bottom of my back slope.  Some of the tall stems obliged me by bending over so I could photograph the flowers.

Clockwise from the upper left: Fuchsia 'Windchimes White', Gaura lindheimeri, Lagurus ovatus, and Pelargonium tomentosum

Blue Flowers

This is officially the first Agapanthus to open in my garden but there's a legion of buds right behind it

My first Eryngium planum 'Blue Glitter', which I planted in the wrong spot at the edge of the border

Salvia clevelandii 'Winnifred Gilman' is gearing up to welcome summer when the sun returns

Left to right: blue Anagallis monellii (mingling with its orange cousin), Felicia aethiopica, and Penstemon heterophyllus

Purplish Flowers

Polygala myrtifolia (sweet pea shrub)

Salvia canariensis var candissima

Top row: Abelia 'Chiapas', Centaurea 'Silver Feather', and Erigeron glaucus Second row: Gladiolus 'Vuvuzela', Limonium perezii, and Lupinus propinquus Third row: Oscularia deltoides, Pelargonium peltatum 'Lavender Blizzard', and Teucrium cossonii majoricum

I'll close with what I characterized as exceptions in the introduction of this post.  Each of the following collages features plants in the same genus.  They vary in color and, in many cases, location within the garden.

Alstroemeria (Peruvian lilies), clockwise from the upper left: 'Claire', 'Inca Sundance', 'Inca Husky', 'Indian Summer', noID pink, 'Inca Vienna', and 'Third Harmonic'

Argyranthemum frutescens (marguerite daisies), clockwise from upper left: 'White Butterfly', 'Grandaisy Yellow', 'Grandaisy Red', and 'Pink Comet'

The Lathyrus odoratus (sweet peas) vines have grown well above my head.  Clockwise from the upper left of column 2 are 'Blue Shift', 'Dancing Queen', 'Enchante', 'Erewhon', 'Lavender Ice', and 'Oban Bay'.  Only the 'Turquoise'variety I planted from seed didn't show up.

I don't do well with roses but I have several in bloom at the moment, including, clockwise from the upper left: 'Golden Celebration', 'Lady Emma Hamilton', 'Joseph's Coat'. and 'Pink Meidiland'

That's it for this month.  For more GBBD posts, check in with Carol of May Dreams Gardens on June 15th.

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