Is the day garden bloggers from all over the world showcase their gardens.
We have had a very unusual summer in NW Arkansas.
13 inches of rain in eight weeks and no scorching temperatures has all the flowers and veggies happy, happy, happy.
Here are some of my favorite bloomers in the garden.
The Naked Ladies (Lycoris squamigera) are performing in several venues this summer. This old-fashioned, summer favorite is a bulb that is planted in the fall.
It is also called Surprise Lily or Resurrection Lily due to its ability to seemingly pop up from the ground in late summer. The stalks are bare which is probably where the naked name comes in.
Allium stellatum or Prairie Onion is also a bulb planted in the fall and is a native Arkansas plant. I started these from seed a couple of years ago, so this is the first summer they have bloomed.
They seem to be doing very well with the coreopsis, coleus and zinnias.
This is also the first year I have grown Ruella (wild petunia). It really prefers dry soil so I hope is survives all the rain.
The moonflower shrub never fails to disappoint this time of year.
I wish you could smell these!
And I’m patiently waiting for the monarchs to show up on my milkweed. I thought I saw one a couple of days ago, but so far no eggs on the milkweed.
Butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa)
I love my purple coneflowers (and so do the butterflies.)
I know these last pictures aren’t exactly bloomers, but foliage also plays a big role in my garden as well.
Coleus ‘Chocolate Covered Cherry’
coleus
Kong Coleus
Sun Coleus
Caladium
Caladium
A big thanks to Carol from May Dreams Garden for hosting for Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day.
Beautiful garden! Love your prairie onions. The cool weather here in Cent Ark has brought all the wild petunias back out. Quite nice to see their lavender blooms return. Stay dry!
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Can you believe this weather?? I don’t want to stay in the house!
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Amen to that! Hard to stay out of the yard with the grass growing like crazy too!
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Your garden sure looks happy with your weather! Beautiful! Luckily, I can smell the moon flowers through the computer!
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Beautiful flowers…didn’t know this Allium . Your lot definitely seems very happy.
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Odd weather, for sure…this is the time of year I used to visit my grandmothers – one down in Pine Bluff, one up in Salem – and the heat was always awful. Your blooms are fabulous this year 🙂
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We’ve had the mild temps though lately it has gotten pretty dry. There was lots of rain earlier in the summer, though. I would love to have your moonflower shrub! Also, I can see we have the same taste in Caladiums.
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I’ll be more than happy to send you seeds for the moonflower. Just let me know.
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Wow that is a lot of rain…I love the naked ladies!
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With all the rain we’ve had this Summer, I am curious how colorful Fall will be? Hopefully, the leaves will be complete show-offs! 😉 -Marci @ Stone Cottage Adventures
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Wouldn’t that make a hike to Hawksbill great??
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So much rain!!! Looks like your plants loved it! I planted some naked ladies, but mine have not come up. I guess mine are shy. 😉 Love the alliums, and the coleus is as pretty as any bloom!
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Hi there this is kinda of off topic but I was wondering if blogs use WYSIWYG editors or if you have to manually
code with HTML. I’m starting a blog soon but have no coding skills so I wanted to get advice from someone
with experience. Any help would be enormously appreciated!
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Word press is very easy to set up. I have zero coding skills
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