What’s Blooming August 2019
July and August are very colorful in my garden. Many of the July blooms are in need of dead-heading, but here are a few of what’s blooming in August.
Tri-color alstroemeria
Abutilon
Rudbeckie hirta ‘Autumn Forest’
Brown-eyed Susan
Canna ‘Tropicana’
Cardoon (cynara cardunuculus) – foliage looks like an artichoke!
Caryopteris
Multi-trunk crapemyrtle
(lager stroemia indica)
Dahlia ‘Coppertone’
Dahlia ‘cracker jack’
Dahlia ‘Swan’s Desert Sun’
Echinacea – mixed varieties – common name: coneflower
Purple fountain grass (pennisetum rubrum)
Hardy geranium ‘Rozanne’
Gomphrina ‘buddy purple’
Hydrangea
Inula ‘Magnifica’
Joe Pye weed – great for attracting bees and butterflies
Kiss me over the garden gate (Polygonum Orientale)
Orange Peel Jessamine – blooms all spring and summer
Orange trumpet vine – CAUTION!! This vine is very invasive in my garden.
Rudbeckia ‘Prairie Sun’ – do you see the praying mantis on it?
Sedum ‘Autumn Joy’, with the pink spires of Veronica in the foreground
Spirea ‘Anthony waterer’
St. John’s wort
Ornamental sunflowers
