Backyard Bloggers’ Bloom Day – August 2024 – Carol J. Michel
Welcome to Backyard Bloggers’ Bloom Day for August 2024.
Right here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a backyard in central Indiana, August is just not probably the most flower-ful month of the yr, however there are nonetheless loads of blooms.
With a concentrate on solely perennials, come together with me to take a look at just a few of them.
The highest picture reveals Verbena bonariensis ‘Vainness’ blooming with Heuchera villosa ‘Autumn Bride’ over to the suitable. Each will do a little bit of self-sowing which is allowed in my backyard.
Subsequent up is Japanese jacinth, Barnardia japonica, with a bonus bee
The leaves come up in spring, die again, after which the flower spikes and some leaves return in August. I wrote about them in my weekly publication final week so I gained’t repeat their historical past right here.
Close by are the hardy begonias, Begonia grandis.
The pink flowers gained’t knock your socks off, as they are saying, however perhaps the very concept of a begonia hardy sufficient to outlive a Zone 6a winter will?
Staying in that space, we will admire the toad lilies, Tricyrtis sp., or perhaps simply be appalled that they began blooming so early?
I often get just a few inquiries about the place I obtained that fairy home within the background. It was a retirement reward and I feel they bought it from an Etsy vendor. It’s fairly good to have, is fabricated from concrete, and sure, I do take it in for the winter, after clearing out the spiders that assume it makes for a stunning summer time house.
Throughout my backyard, Allium ‘Millenium’ has been blooming for some time however is beginning to fade. However that’s summer time for you… it’s additionally been happening for some time however can also be beginning to present indicators of winding down.
I have no idea the title of that rose however it blooms a bit all summer time and sometimes has a bloom on it in October.
One final image after which we’ll wrap up this bloom day put up with another observations across the backyard.
I often go searching for a flower that’s signaling the following seasonal change within the backyard and I’ve discovered simply that on this tall sedum, Hylotelephium telephium. What a botanical title! The flowers are budding up and can quickly—too quickly—present their colours. However within the background, you possibly can nonetheless see coneflowers high left and tall phlox high proper so summer time remains to be happening.
Now, what did I not present you?
I didn’t present you any black-eyed Susans, like these that determined they’d make themselves at house below a paw-paw tree.
They’re both a testomony to my laziness in not pulling them out or a testomony to their skill to make themselves fairly at house throughout a backyard. They’ll try this if you happen to allow them to, and I apparently allow them to.
Thanks for just about visiting my backyard in August. Possibly subsequent time I’ll share some footage of annual flowers, of which there are a lot, largely within the vegetable backyard and in containers on the patio.
I’d like to just about go to your backyard for Backyard Bloggers’ Bloom Day. It’s straightforward to invite me and others to see what you may have blooming on or across the fifteenth of the month. Simply put up in your weblog or wherever you set fairly footage on the web, then put a hyperlink to that place within the Mr. Linky widget and go away a remark to inform us what we anticipate on our go to.
And all the time keep in mind the inspiration for this month-to-month meme… “We will have flowers almost each month of the yr.” ~ Elizabeth Lawrence
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Welcome to Backyard Bloggers’ Bloom Day for August 2024. Right here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a backyard in central Indiana, August is just not probably the most flower-ful month of the yr, however there are nonetheless loads of blooms. With a concentrate on solely perennials, come together with me…