Happy June GBBD!

Carol, at May Dreams Garden hosts this monthly report of what we have blooming in our gardens. Check out her blog to see other blooms, or to add a link to your blog to show what you have blooming.

The first set of photos is from the front and side yards.

My current favorite flower is Clematis 'Purpurea Plena Elegans':

This delphium is probably my second favorite right now, but it needs a 3rd string around it, as it is getting floppy:

I have an assortment of coral bells that I've misplaced the tags for:

Yarrow:

Some kind of narrow leaf coneflower, another favorite of mine right now, with daisies, snapdragons, blanket flower, and foxgloves also blooming:

Orange hawkweed, one of the few potentially invasive plants I grow, but keep in its boundaries, and deadhead its dandelion like flowers:

White Swan Coneflower that turned back to pinkish purple:

Octopus bellflower, second season, looking to be spready:

Pink primrose:

Red Hot Poker:

Annual sweet peas I'm growing for the first time:

A red salvia:

Some kind of bellflower, (I think) I moved from a bed where it was not getting enough light:

Kim's Knee High coneflower, petals not coming out, I hope it's OK:

Globe Knapweed, also called perennial bachelor button, which will have "yellow fluff" come out of the top shortly:

Nigella, seeded from last year's plants:

The next 2 are passalong spiderworts I don't know the names of. I have a 3rd one, but its blooms were not open when I took these:

Most of the perennial geraniums are blooming:

German statice with Spooky dianthus:

Since a lot of you fell in love with Prairie Smoke geum, I thought I'd include this, which has been there 3 or 4 years, and is finished blooming a smoking. I'm trying to remember if I went ahead and took the dried stuff off in the past. I think that's Johnson's Blue geranium next to it:



A smaller type of false sunflower:

A salvia of some kind:

This false sunflower grew from seeds of another. I moved it from the veggie garden last year, and it loves its new area. It gets taller than the other ones, and full of blooms:

The amsonias are finished blooming, except for this one that is holding on to some:

Catmint:

Dwarf Coreopsis, Nana:

Now, to the back yard:

Our first morning glory bloom of the season, one of the few I am not pulling out, as way more come up than there is room for:

This tub of pansies got a bit dry early spring, and almost died. I moved them to where they get afternoon shade, and they are doing well. I love the combination, but they are hard to get good photos of. They love the cool temps we've had lately:

Hosta, astilbi?:

These pansies reseeded or overwintered in the pot they are in:

I love clematis:

I grew a few strawflowers from seeds this year, and have 2 blooms so far:

Thyme:

This is a native or wild type of coreopsis I have grown before, and a seed must have wanted to germinate in a clump of thyme. I let it be when I realized what it was:



Some blooms from the veggie garden:

Tomato:

I've been picking peas, and more blooms are coming on:

Perennial sweet pea:

I let more bachelor buttons grow in the veggie garden than usual, and was pleased to see several colors:

The larkspur come up each year, and like the bachelor buttons, the plants don't make it all summer, but their offspring find their way each spring. The big leaves belong to hollyhocks, which will be blooming soon:

The next blooms are from the front of the garden:

Swamp milkweed:

White Veronica:

This one got pulled, but as a girl walking to school, I remember enjoying the bindweed growing up someone's fence, thinking it a very pretty flower:

Just when I thought the gas plant was not making it, it surprised me, and then grew quickly into this lovely flower:

The next few are from my garden across the street.

American Indian Orange Marigolds are growing with Inca II yellow African marigolds, which I didn't get a good photo of:

This bloom is from one of the bush tomato plants I started inside from seed:

Bell pepper, I think Lilac:

The next 2 potato bloom photos show that the 2 kinds of potatoes I am growing, one, Yukon Gold, have different colored flowers:

I just looked up images, and found out this one is the Yukon Gold:

I did not include all the flowers in bloom, but most of those not pictured here have already been posted this year. I may do a separate post on my pots. The 2 lilies I got for 75% off, and planted after they bloomed last year are full of buds. They are reminding me of asters, which I feel tease awhile with their buds before they finally open.