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