Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Blooms, Bounty, and Butterflies - June GBBD

Forever and Ever Hydrangea
I just returned from a bit of a respite. Time was spent finishing garden tasks and taking some time off. The weather this week is surprisingly pleasant. After weeks of hot and muggy days, this is a nice surprise.

It is Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day over at May Dreams Gardens, and the garden is filling out with blooms and foliage. This is the time when the lillies open up and share their beauty, the echinacea decorates the garden with lovely color, and the vegetables are starting their fruiting.

Some of the lillies are blooming...the early bloomers.

Common Daylily



 Easter Lily

Corina Asiatic Lily

Stella D'oro Daylily


In the front annual bed, I planted pink and red pelargoniums in the center
of the bed with surrounding calibrachoa. Sweet potato vine starts to trail
over the side edges.

Pelargoniums, calibrachoa, sweet potato vine

In the cottage garden, many of the plants are beginning to flower.

Bee Balm

Threadleaf Coreopsis

Coreopsis lanceolata

Echinacea 'Firebird'

Lamb's Ears


English lavendar

French lavendar



Painted Daisy

Shasta Daisy

Veronica 'Sunny Border Blue'

Yucca

I like the faded blooms of yarrow. They offer another color variation. Soon,
I will clip the blooms off and hope for another bloom.


Yarrow
Salvia plumosa

Catmint


Astilbe 'Amethyst'
Cottage Garden

And I am very excited about the coming vegetable harvest. Just recently, I harvested tomatoes, beans, and some peppers.

Tomatoes, Roma

Bush Beans 'Tendergreen Improved'
Okra
Sweet Pepper 'Cajun Belle'

Zucchini Squash 'Black Beauty'
Cucumber Burpless Bush Hybrid

Peach (Duarte)

Strawberries

Onion, Roma Tomatoes, Green Beans, Thai Chile Peppers

Some other bloomers...

Oakleaf Hydrangea 'Alice'
Hosta 'Black Beauty'

Nandina

Hibiscus
Calibrachoa 'Superbells Plum' and  'Superbells Yellow'

Calibrachoa 'Superbells Callie Mango'


Red pelargoniums with calibrachoa

Caladiums, 'Carolyn Whorton' and 'Postman Joyner'

Caladium 'Postman Joyner'

Clematis jackmanii

And some butterflies have begun visiting the garden...



Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly

Silver-bordered Fritallary?

Indoors, I still have one Phalaenopsis blooming...

Phalaenopsis


What do you have blooming?
©Michelle A. Potter

59 comments:

  1. Mariposa lilies, of course! Fantastic photos - I love your Coreopsis.

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  2. Fab blooms you have there...we are almost at the same point with many flowers but way behind with the veggies..hope you enjoyed your respite...I have been absent from reading blogs due to my day job still...crazy time of year as we end the school year!! Glad I caught your post

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  3. Your garden is simply stunning at the moment - I can't believe how much is floweruing for you right now - a lot of them are my favourites ... Easter Lily, Clematis Jackmanii, Daisies, the Asiatic Lily - all beautiful!
    Happy GBBD!

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  4. Lovely - and I enjoyed seeing all the vegetables too! Every time I see the common daylily, I resolve again to get some! They look great against your junipers.

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  5. Your garden is so far ahead of mine in Illinois and Michigan- a lot to look forward to!

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  6. What beautiful blooms you have Michelle! That Clematis is such a stunning blue and the pic of your cottage garden are just gorgeous, what a beautiful part of your garden, so happy you shared it all! My blooms are sad and not doing much, we are so far behind this year, my Hydrangeas are only just now budding...yikes!

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  7. My goodness your garden is lush and gorgeous! I enjoyed the tour off all your blooms especially the sneak peek into our cottage garden ;)

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  8. Beautiful, beautiful flowers, your garden is a joy to see.

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  9. Your gardens and blooms are lovely. I love your hydrangea, lilies, other perennials and of course butterflies! I enjoyed your lovely post. Happy GBBD!

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  10. What an incredible selection you have for June. You have many blooming I still have weeks to wait and see. The Monarda here is just starting to get big, but no flowers yet. Same with coreopsis, only a few sparse flowers so far. I always feel a month behind most bloggers on GBBD, but it is nice to see what is out there and is coming my way eventually.

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  11. Pretty, pretty. I wish my garden were busting at the seams like yours.

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  12. So much beauty in one post! I especially like the color of Coreopsis lanceolata, a plant that I'm not familiar with... enjoying my visit... Larry

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  13. Your garden is definitely ahead of mine. I have astilbe and lavender just opening. Daylilies are still tight buds and there's only a couple of really small tomatoes. Beautiful photos.

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  14. such a classic, beautiful cottage garden! it's like something out of a storybook. i'm waiting for my lavenders to bloom, but yours are looking perfect!.

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  15. Wow, you have all of your summer blooms beginning and your zucchini is flowering ~ quite jealous. The land of the perpetual mist continues to be damp and behind. Catherine @ a A Gardner in Progress suggested I try a Jackmanii Clematis and from your incredible photo's I can see why she suggested it ~ a stunner! Cheers

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  16. Wonderful blooms. Your Lilies are fantastic and I loved the Coreopsis lanceolata ... great colour! The patches of daisies are simply gorgeous and the Yucca bloom is lovely. I so enjoyed seeing what's blooming in your garden ... the cottage garden looks great.

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  17. One day, when I manage to get a plot of land either in Singapore or overseas, I'm going to model my garden after yours - it is way too beautiful.

    Sky

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  18. You have such an echanting garden with so many varieties of flowers Ive never seen before! Loved those lilies, such beauties!

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  19. Lovely! So many things blooming in your garden...I especially liked the shot of your cottage garden with the pathway.

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  20. Quite a collection! I love the lilies.

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  21. I always love reading about other bloggers vegetables, it really makes me excited about mine. Your roma tomatoes look great and I can't wait until I have fresh beans too!

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  22. Wow - a floral fiesta! I love that cottage garden photo! - and the yucca!

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  23. nice gardens, enjoyed the tour. fun in the sun! how do you get rid of squash bugs.

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  24. Oh, your lilies are stunning...and I MUST find out more about the Echinacea 'Firebird'!

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  25. That really is a bounty! Looking at what you have in bloom makes me realize that June is when my sped-up Maine spring and summer seasons start to catch up with gardens further south. I have astilbe that will begin to bloom within the next week, lots of buds getting fatter on lilies and daylilies, and I'm watching for my first wild strawberry sighting. -Jean

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  26. @Donna Thanks, Donna. I did have a nice respite, but I missed blogging as well. I hope your schedule lets up a bit...

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  27. @Christine @ the Gardening Blog When I put the post together, it did seem like a lot. I never really realized it. I am so glad enjoyed it...thanks for stopping by.

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  28. @HolleyGarden Sometimes I wish they didn't call it 'common' because it has so many wonderful features that are not common...vigor, beauty... Thanks for stopping by!

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  29. @Gardening not Landscaping Sometimes I am amazed that things have done as well as they have with the strange weather we have had this year. I look forward to taking a peek at your blooms when they are out and about.

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  30. @Julia@PolkaDotGaloshes That clematis did really well this year...its best year yet. What you have blooming looks gorgeous...I enjoy seeing it all.

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  31. @Cat I am so glad you enjoyed it and stopped by! The cottage garden is a bed that is always evolving and changing. I have photos from a few years ago, and it has changed so much.

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  32. @Greenearth Thank you...I am so glad you enjoyed your visit.

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  33. @Landscape Design By Lee I am so glad you enjoyed your visit. I am surprised I got those butterflies...they were moving around a lot.

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  34. @gardenwalkgardentalk.com I felt the same as I visited some of the southern bloggers with blooms ahead of mine. It is nice to get a 'preview.' Thanks for stopping by.

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  35. @Kelly (The Sorry Gardener) Thank you for your nice compliment, and thanks for visiting.

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  36. @Larry That coreopsis is a new addition from last year. I like the color of the blooms as well...a bit different. So glad you enjoyed your visit!

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  37. @Suzie/VivaVerde What a very nice thing to say! I like to experience my garden as if it is a far away land where I have escaped from the everyday. Thanks for stopping by.

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  38. @Jenni @ RainyDayGardener That clematis has done very well this year. You will enjoy it should you decide to try it.

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  39. @joene Oh...you have a lot to look forward to. Thanks for stopping by.

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  40. @Bernie Much of your favorites are my favorites as well. Thanks for stopping by.

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  41. @aseaaranion Thank you for such a nice compliment! I hope you get that plot soon!

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  42. @p3chandan Thank you for your comment, and thanks for stopping by.

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  43. @Hanni The cottage garden is one of my favorite garden beds. I am glad you liked it.

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  44. @Town Mouse I have really grown to appreciate the lilies each year. I have different varieties that give me color practically the entire summer.

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  45. @Adele Stevens I also find it exciting to see the veggies...makes my mouth water. :)

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  46. @Country Mouse Thanks for your kind words, and thanks for stopping by.

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  47. @greggo I am so glad you enjoyed your visit.

    Squash bugs are hard to control. I pick them off and throw them in a bucket of soapy water. I also scrape off the eggs from underneath leaves. I have not found an organic gardening product that would control them.

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  48. @scottweberpdx That is a pretty echinacea variety...I just added it last year. Thanks for visiting.

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  49. @jeansgarden It doesn't seem as if you are too far behind. Thanks for stopping by.

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  50. Your garden is beautiful! I love your cottage garden too! It is great to see all your fruit & veggies...they are the best!

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  51. Hi,

    Beautiful blooms, and there's just so much to see!

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  52. That looks like a lovely little path to have a dander down. You have so many beautiful flowers in bloom for June.

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  53. @Karin / Southern Meadows I can't wait to get some peppers and cucumbers. Watching them grow makes my mouth water. Thanks for visiting.

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  54. @Liz And that wasn't everything...it is so hard to decide what to put in. I probably put too much...thanks for stopping by.

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  55. @leavesnbloom It is my favorite path! Thank you for your kind comments...and for stopping by.

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  56. What a bounty of blooms! And a bountiful harvest of vegetables as well. I love the dark pink Asiatic lily, but the blue hydrangea blooms are certainly an eye-catcher as well.

    The butterflies are just beginning to arrive here, and I managed to take my first photo of the season of one visitor. I wasn't sure what it was, but it looks very much like your fritallary...or is it a sage butterfly?:)

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  57. I am envious - what a lovely garden

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  58. So pretty! The vegs look healthy and juicy.

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I see 'em bloom for me and for you
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world'
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