July Blooms on Bliss

It's July and it's time for another garden bloggers bloom day. For more information see May Dreams Gardens. As it is Summer, there's a lot in flower on Bliss today. Let's start with the potager, shall we?



- borage (blue)
- artichoke (see first picture)
- fennel
- corn
- pumpkins
- strawberries
- chives
- lilies
- sweet peas
- sugar snaps
- lady's mantle
- dahlias (many colours)
- poppies ( dark red and purple)
- love-in-a-mist (white and blue)
- rocket salad (yellow)
- nasturtiums (yellow, orange and red)
- agapanthus (white)
- lavender (lilac and white)
- nicandra physalodes violacea
- petunias (purple, mauve and pink)
- wall flowers (lilac)
- solidago (yellow)
- rue (yellow)
- sweet william (dark red, pink and white)
- tomatoes
- peppers
- solanum crispum alba
- centranthus ruber (pink)
- courgette
- bacopa
- blackberries
- cosmea (pink)
- calendula (double, yellow)
- hypericum
- bergenia (very surprising)
- impatiens glandulifera (white)
- cymbalaria
- potatoes

The White Garden is looking wonderful at the moment too, roses abound:
- rosa Sombreuil (still in flower)
- rosa Madame Alfred Carriere (still in flower)
- rosa Guirlande d'Amour (again)
- rosa Blanc Double de Coubert (still in flower)
- rose Moonlight (again)
White roses aside, there's more to be admired in the White Garden such as:
- gaura
- impatience glandulifera
- geranium
- bacopa
- lavender
- catnip
- gillenia trifoliata
- verbena hastata alba
- lysimachia clethroides
- delphiniums (last flowers)
- snapdragons (scented)

And last but certainly not least the borders. There's so much in flower now that I'm bound to forget to mention some of them. It's a long, long list this time:

- hybiscus
- verbena bonariensis
- bacopa
- verbena hastata (pink and white)
- star jasmin
- petunias
- many phloxes in pink, burgundy, pink and white, purple and white, and purple

- verbena ( white, lilac, pink and purple)
- tomatoes
- violets (deep purple) and self sown
- sanguisorba (pink)
- salvias (blue and dark blue)
- borage
- echinacea vintage wine and echinacea alba
- impatience (pink, double)
- daisies (white and pink)
- cosmos (pink)
- agapanthus and lobelia (both blue)
- centranthus ruber (pink and white)
- pelargonium (pink)
- hydrangea
- sidalcea (pink)
- astrantia claret (deep burgundy)
- lavender
- dahlia Fascination (purple foliage and stems with pink flowers)
- deschampsia Goldtau
- lady's mantle
- campanula Loddon Anne
- achillea ptarmica the Pearl
- hemerocallis Princess Blue Eyes
- hemerocallis Corky
- solidago
- dahlias in many colours
- sweet peas
- nasturtiums
- polemonium (blue and white)
- linaria
- geranium (many varieties)
- eupatorium purpureum
- clematis Hagley Hybrid
- honeysuckle
- catnip (blue)
- penstemon (white)
- hollyhocks (black)
- buddleia
- rosa Magenta (standard)
- rosa Memories (standard, white)
- ipomoea (burgundy, pink, blue and white)
- spider wort (light blue)
- clematis Multi Blue
- scabiosa atropurpurea
- campanula (blue)
- clematis white
- echinops
- lavatera
- heuchera
- oxalis
- chives
- clematis Ice Queen
- sanguisorba Arnhem

Rather overwhelming that plethora of blooms, isn't it? Here's something to pick you up a bit : some chocolate. Mmmmmmm, delicious! Scratch and sniff, people!
- cosmos atrosanguineus (chocolate scent)

You can't get up too early, if you have a garden. You must be early due yourself, if you get ahead of the bugs. I think, that, on the whole, it would be best to sit up all night, and sleep daytimes. Things appear to go on in the night in the garden uncommonly. It would be less trouble to stay up than it is to get up so early. Charles Dudley Warner, My Summer in the garden, 1871