Backyard Bloggers’ Bloom Day – July 2024 – Carol J. Michel
Welcome to Backyard Bloggers’ Bloom Day for July 2024.
Right here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a backyard in central Indiana, we’re having what I contemplate a typical summer time.
Scorching days, cooler days, sometimes even wet days.
And the backyard is wanting fairly good, aside from the weeds. However all of us have weeds so “nothing to see there” as they are saying.
As an alternative, I encourage you to look previous the weeds and the failings of my backyard and your personal backyard, and I’ll wager you’ll discover some fairly flowers and possibly some good greens to eat while you do. And simply possibly you’ll additionally discover a quiet place to sit down and chill out and revel in all of it.
All of us want a quiet place at instances, don’t we? However it’s exhausting typically to be quiet in a backyard in full bloom and full weediness. A lot to do. Deadhead, weed, harvest. Even plan what bulbs we’re going to purchase to plant this fall.
Oh, however we must always not get too far forward of ourselves by considering an excessive amount of about fall bulbs to plant for spring flowers.
We should always benefit from the backyard as it’s proper now.
There are a number of flowers blooming right here in mid-July, however the one which I feel form of says “July” greater than others is the coneflowers, Echinacea purpurea, pictured above. However please don’t inform the tall phlox I mentioned that.
.Tall phlox, Phlox paniculata, thinks it’s the flower that ought to characterize July in all its pink-ness, it doesn’t matter what the tiger lily says.
There are literally many flowers that wish to be on the July web page of the calendar. So many who as a substitute of a stream of images, I made a video so that you can view. You may watch it by way of this hyperlink or on YouTube. (Sorry I couldn’t get it to embed right here!)
Then you may gaze upon these resurrection lilies, Lycoris squamigera, which are blooming a bit sooner than regular.
Hmmm, however that is the one one. The remainder are simply developing or haven’t come up but so there’s hope of most of them blooming on the “regular” time, every time that’s!
And that’s it for my Backyard Bloggers’ Bloom Day submit. What’s blooming in your backyard in the midst of July? It’s simple to take part on this meme and share your blooms with everybody. Simply submit in your weblog or Instagram or wherever concerning the blooms in your backyard, after which come again right here and go away a hyperlink within the Mr. Linky widget and a remark to inform us what you will have for us to see!
(Have you ever subscribed to my new weekly publication? It comes out each Sunday at 7 p.m. Jap time with little tidbits about what’s taking place in my backyard every week. It’s a little bit of journalling, pondering, and sharing of gardening data.)
“We will have flowers almost each month of the 12 months.” ~ Elizabeth Lawrence
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Welcome to Backyard Bloggers’ Bloom Day for July 2024. Right here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a backyard in central Indiana, we’re having what I contemplate a typical summer time. Scorching days, cooler days, sometimes even wet days. And the backyard is wanting fairly good, aside from the weeds. However…