Six on Saturday – 15JUL2023 – Mid July Garden

Chris Mousseau

I’m joining Jim and his global Sixers today with photos taken on my old cell phone. The garden is very colourful at this time of year, with daylilies and alliums and roses and coneflowers all blooming. Earwigs are feasting on the Zinnias and beans like never before, but tomatoes are growing higher and faster than ever before. Go figure. Hope everyone has a lovely weekend.

A mid summer Allium to start with – Keeled Garlic, aka Witch’s Garlic, more properly known as Allium carinatum. So easy to grow – simply collect the seed heads in the fall, then immediately scratch them into a patch of soil. They may even poke out of the ground before the ground freezes.

My first Dahlia of the year – Ferncliff Spice. Not terribly appealing in this photo or in the garden, to be honest. I seem to remember more depth of colour on this variety last year.
I’ve seen loads of great flower stalks on Yucca filamentosa around the County this summer, including my own!
Verbena bonariensis has self seeded again this year. Just waiting for the butterflies to appear now.
July is daylily month, of course. I love this little peachy one which just started to bloom.
Two Clematis grow up the same tripod. C. viticella Etoile Violet and C. texensis Gravetye Beauty, which has been blooming for quite a while now.

19 Comments

  1. I tend not to enjoy daylilies, but that peach one’s a gem. Maybe it’s the yellow and orange that put me off; around here, their colors always seem oversaturated.

    1. Yes, a lot of the ‘modern’ daylilies have very brash cartoonish colours; I prefer the softer, muted tones myself. Although I must admit I have a soft spot for H. fulva – the common orange ditch daylily. It’s considered invasive here, and right now you can see masses blooming along roadsides, and in my back field 😁

  3. Gorgeous clematis! Love the vibrant colors. My Verbena hastata has just started to bloom – yes, the butterflies do love the verbenas. I mean to spend some time butterfly watching this weekend!

  8. You’re the second one with the clematis ‘Etoile Violette’! … but the red one ‘Gravetye Beauty’ is a so pretty !… Here, earwigs are feasting on artichokes ! and not easy to remove

    1. It’s an earwig invasion here as well this year…I pulled all my Zinnias yesterday and planted a late crop of gladiola in their place…

  9. Yucca filamentosa is rad! For a while, I grew all but one of the 49 or so identified species of Yucca. I am not certain if the missing species is actually a real species. I am surprised to see how popular some of them are in other regions, where there are so many other pretty and more colorful flowers to grow. I forget that some species are native far beyond the Southwest and West.

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