I'm quite amazed this year how long the blooming of spring flowers continues. The larkspur, corn poppies and pink primroses continue to bloom among the newly blooming purple cone flowers, despite the record heat. I have done a lot of tidying out in the sunken garden, removing all the spent bluebonnets, alyssum, toadflax. I need to keep it a lot tidier in future. One of my absolute favorites is the swan river daisy Brachycome iberidifolia. I save the seeds each year and they come back in shades of blue and purple. The pill bugs love this plant but I usually manage a fairly good flowering. Not long lived in the heat but oh so worth it.
In the vegetable garden achillea and gaillardia pair together.
Coreopsis tinctoria is also in this garden. It tends towards weediness, but such a pretty plant wafting its blooms in the breeze.
This is my first year for growing heartleaf skullcap, Scutellaria ovata. It is definitely on my list of to keep plants.
Here's another 'weed' but I allow one or two to grow for a little while anyway. I usually pull them out shortly after they get to this bloom stage.
A new addition to the garden this year is this echinacea 'harvest moon'. I wonder if seeds are available? If so I'll be getting some next year.
Outside the garden it has been a superb year for the prickly pear flowering.
In the front garden the pale orange daylilies begin to bloom.
In the front garden the pale orange daylilies begin to bloom.
I faithful rebloomer, an English daisy.
And finally, the Texas clematis.
