Garden Boogers Bloom Day: July 2018

Welcome to my July Garden Bloggers Bloom Day post.  We had a really dry June and July so far, and it's really starting to show out in the garden.  Fortunately, with enough water nothing will die, it may go dormant, but we can keep everything going.  It looked like we might get some rain from some summer popup storms, but they missed our neighborhood.  All told, we got an 1/8 of an inch, not enough to impact the drought conditions.  Any rain is a good thing, so we are thankful for even that small amount.

The Pollinator Garden is looking pretty good...at least from the street.  If you get closer you can see exactly how rough the daylilies look.  Even so, there are some nice blooms for the pollinators to enjoy.

The Black Eyed Susan's have started to die back, but there are still quite a few blooms.  Cutting them back is on the to do list.  The butterflies don't seem to care.

Lat year I went a little crazy on the hardy ageratum.  It had gotten very out of control...Sooooo out of control.  I removed almost all of it.  Ironically the little but I left died, but as anyone who has grown this plant knows, it's kinds of a thug and you don't get rid of it that easily.  A few random plants came back and finally one bloomed.  These are great for attracting pollinators, so I want some, just not an entire garden of them.

The coneflowers are no longer blooming and will get cut back with the black-eyed Susan's, but the lantana that came  back from the roots of an old plant is going strong.  This is one of my favorite coloration of the plant.

This Pride of Barbados is still hanging in it's nursery pot.  It did get moved from the greenhouse to an area we are holding some tropicals for a future project.

I added some annuals to the barrier garden to extend the color in that bed.  It's almost 100% daylilies.  The zinnias are blooming and I'm loving the new additions.

The Tropical Garden is mostly about foliage, but we have a few things blooming including the salvias and hibsicus.

The star of the show right now is the pink banana (Musa velutina) that is blooming.  Unfortunetly, it isn't in a place that is easy to see, but I tromped to the back of the garden to get a few pictures.

Last year it had one bloomed spike, but this year it has four.  A few even have juuvinile bananas.

Of course, we have the obligatory daylilies.  We are at the end of the season.  A few late season are blooming for the first time and some have started to rebloom.

'Coyote Moon'

'Chicago Rosy'

'Cobbs Hill Jester'

'Peanut Butter Frenzy'

'Tropical Depression'

'Friends With Benefits'

'Mapping Carolina'

'Autumn Minaret'

'Jaws of Life'

'Spirit Whisper'

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