Carol at May Dreams Gardens invites us to tell her what’s blooming in our gardens on the 15th of each month.
June 15, 2007
Last night we had a surprise rain. Quite a relief after a fortnight of temperatures in the low 90s. It has been very humid and the air is thick with mosquitoes. So my gardening season is mostly over until fall. Don’t be mislead by the length of the list. Some plants have only a flower or two left. However, the heat means some of the summer flowers that have been slow to bloom this year (with our lovely cool, rainy spring) are finally coming into full bloom. Yep. Summer has hit Austin. Dammit.
- Abelia grandiflora
- Antigonon leptopus
- Asclepias curassavica
- Canna ‘Bangkok Yellow‘
- Centaurea cyanus ‘Black Magic‘ — all but faded but maybe the rain will revive them)
- chili pequin
- Commelina erecta (day flower) — the weedy perennial. I much prefer its false cousin)
- Commelinantia anomala (false day flower) — a couple a last flowers
- Consolida ambigua (larkspur)
- Cosmos bipinnatus–one self-sown flower
- Engelmann daisy
- Eschscholzia californica ‘Mikado‘
- Hibiscus syriacus
- Lagerstroemia indica
- Lantana ‘New Gold’
- Lantana montevidensis — one white flower
- Lavandula heterophyla ‘Goodwin Creek Grey‘
- Malvaviscus arboreus
- Mirabilis jalapa pink
- Mirabilis jalapa RHS red
- Oenothera speciosa (evening primrose)
- Oxalis triangularis
- Nerium oleander ‘Turner’s Shari D.’ — full, gorgeous bloom
- Pavonia hastata — one flower
- Plumbago auriculata
- Polanisia dodecandra — full bloom
- rose ‘Blush Noisette‘ — a second flush from my best heat-loving rose
- rose ‘Ducher’ — one bud just opening
- rose ‘Red Cascade’ — one flower
- rose ‘Souvenir de la Malmaison”
- Rudbeckia hirta — full bloom
- Ruellia (Mexican petunia)
- Salvia farinacea ‘Indigo Spires’
- Sedum album (white stonecrop)
- tomato–we’ve eaten cherry tomatoes this week
- Tradescantia pallida (purple heart)
- Tulbaghia violacea (society garlic) Thanks, Pam!
- Verbena canadensis
- Vitus agnus-castus
