By early July the daily routines include weeding, deadheading, and cleaning up in the flower beds. We have been harvesting produce from the vegetable and herb gardens. We cut the lawn (what’s left of it), water when we can, and do some landscaping, most of those jobs done in the morning before it gets hot. Some flowering plants are finished for the year. Honeysuckle, mock orange, and most of the spireas are now setting seed. Spring flowers have now given way to the taller warm weather varieties. The tallest flowering plants are almost in bloom, like Russian sage and hollyhocks. It is the sedum flowering time now in the rockeries and borders.

There are many flowering plants that can be featured. A few from the show garden in the front yard are shared here, like coreopsis, sweet William, forget-me-nots, lupines, bitterroot, gaillardia, ice plant, pearlwort, scabious, mallow, yarrow, valerian, and Maltese cross. Can you identify these on your own? If not click an image for a lightbox view and a caption.