Garden Update: What's Flowering?

I had a bit of a lull on flowers recently.  Some of the spring flowers died back and now we're in a sort of "in-between" period when flowers are not as plentiful as they were, but some are still going, and fall flowers haven't yet started.

One current standout in the flower department are my various squash, zucchini, and pumpkin plants.  They are putting out a daily show of gorgeous yellow blossoms that are enormous.  Most of them are male flowers, unfortunately, but I'm hoping for some females soon so that fruits will start to develop.

Daylilies are in their glory right now.  Here are some of the blooms today:

I love this cheerful lemon yellow one - not as golden as Stella d'Oro day lily, but just as lovely.

This one is a kind of peachy yellow with a red throat.

A pale yellow with lovely ruffled edges.

This is more of a coral or salmon colour than it appears in the photo.

All the day lilies were here when we moved here, so I didn't plant any and don't know their names.  I think this one is my favourite.  I love the deep burgundy colour and the ruffled petals are stunning.

This is a monkshood, also known as wolf's bane, or Aconitum.  I was surprised to see it this year because it didn't appear last year or the year before, and I didn't plant it!  It's extremely poisonous, but also very beautiful.

 The containers have been suffering a bit in the heat, even though I water them all regularly.  The petunias have been having particular trouble despite being watered.  These calibrachoa have been doing well though.

I found this evening primrose flowering in the garden this year - another surprise that didn't flower last year.

I bought a delphinium earlier this year and it's over now, but the blossoms were glorious while they lasted.  I might get another one next year.

The astilbe are finally flowering as well, and as you can see, there's a rudbeckia (far right) coming along that isn't quite ready to flower yet.  The hostas are all flowering as well.

It's great to be able to take a little wander outside and enjoy the colour in the garden.  I'm trying to do it more often these days, because I didn't do it often enough last year.  If you have a garden, I hope you're enjoying it!

Garden Update: Things are Blooming

The garden has made great strides now that the warmth of summer has finally arrived.  With frosts into mid-June this year, it was a slow start, but I am so pleased to see things progressing.

The roses began to bloom this week.  I have four roses, although I'm not entirely sure what they are, since I didn't plant them.  They were here when we bought the house.  There are two climbing roses - a red one and a pink one.  There are two shrub roses - a red one and a yellow one. There were five rose tags in the detached garage when we bought the house.  One for a white rose (which I can only assume didn't survive), two for yellow roses, and two for pink.  One of the tags is for Therese Bugnet shrub rose, which has also presumably not survived, since there is no pink shrub rose and Therese Bugnet is a lovely medium pink - nothing approaching that shade here.

The other pink tag is for a John Cabot rose, which is a climber.  Given its description  and other pictures of it that I've found online, I believe it is this pink climber in today's photo below.

That leaves me with two yellow rose tags and one yellow shrub rose.  However, both the tags (Charlotte Brownell and Dr. Brownell roses) are for double blooming yellow roses, and the blooms I see online are much larger than mine, so I don't think either of them belong.  In any case, here's the yellow one blooming now.

The red climbing rose has its blooms in large clusters, and it is an abundant bloomer.  I wish I knew what variety it is.  Here you can see it with the mallow in the front and the pink climber in the background.

The red shrub rose was hit hard this past winter and I thought it was dead.  It's just coming back but it hasn't come close to blooming yet.

The foxgloves (which were also here before me) are just glorious.

There are numerous colours including this pretty apricot shade:

There are pale pink flowers that are almost white, with pale pink patterning inside.

There are the classic magenta blooms with white-edged pink patterning inside.

Then, there are some that are magenta with pink patterning but the edging of the spots is a peachy-yellow tone.

There are white ones with darker pink spots inside.

 I am just captivated by them all!

The day lilies also began blooming this weekend.  It is wonderful to see all the colour in the garden once again.  This is the classic Stella d'oro day lily.

This one is a sort of lemon yellow but I don't know its name.

Some flowers are, remarkably, already over.  The red poppies came and went so quickly.

The weigela is also over, but the bees loved it while it lasted.  There were tags for two different weigela in the garage with the rose tags.  One was for "red prince" but I haven't seen that one so I think it's gone.  The other tag is for Weigela "minuet" which is, I think, the one I have.  It is noted for its dwarf size, and both of mine are certainly quite small.  The flowers are the right colour as well.

I hope to have time to do an update on the veggie garden soon.