July Flowers 2013

The joy of perennial gardening is to see each new wave of blooms come forth as the past one fades away. Now in mid July, the first wave of roses and even the hollyhocks recently posted have faded along with the first crop of lavender blooms. To replace them, the Russia Sage is now in full bloom in back and out front, the tall garden flox, taller than they've ever been, are strutting their stuff along with various lilies. The coneflowers and blanket flowers are blowing away the few daisies that remain. and the first little tomato is red, just waiting to give that burst of juicy pleasure.  Nasturtiums are hanging in there, waiting to adorn a salad and the zinnias are just beginning to take over their spot in the continuum.
The neet thing about posting here is that now I can roll through the different posts to enjoy compare the ever changing beauty of gardening.

Blooms of Spring 2013 Ushering in Summer

June 20:

Glorious Hollyhocks

Yarrow

See the Bumblebee gathering pollen?

Lavender, Roses, and Lilies

Blanket Flowers

Coreopsis

Honeybee circled in upper right.

Sage just beginning to bloom.

Blooms of Spring 2013 Early June

And a couple of weeks later:

Roses with Lavender just beginning to bloom.

Japanese or Siberian iris.. Not sure which.

Spiderwort around the fountain.

Primrose; Start from Yelton Manor B&B in South Haven,Michigan; 2008. http://www.yeltonmanor.com/ .

Yellow roses. The little peach rose on the right was in front of the front porch when we moved in.

Clematus on birdhouses through Rose arch.

Sedum acre?