Ahhh! August in the garden. In my Alabama garden most of my plants would be frying in the heat and humidity, but here in our little Highlands rainforest, blooms continue to delight the eye. Just look at the beautiful blue of these Endless Summer hydrangeas.
The deepest blue Endless Summer blooms I've ever seen!
These Ruby Spice Summersweet blooms are just now joining the garden show.
Beautiful pink Summersweet!
i wish you could smell the delightful scent of these David garden phlox.
David garden phlox- such a lovely wafting scent through the garden.
The coneflower blooms continue to delight. I hope these drop a few seeds for additional plants next year.
Coneflower
Our New Dawn Climbing Rose was added this year. We've had a few blooms but expect lots more future roses from this prolific bloomer. What's the old adage for perennials? "First year it sleeps. Second year it creeps. Third year it leaps." Shhh! She's sleeping!
New Dawn Climbing Rose
These are the last of the daylily and stargazer lily blooms blooming the first week in August. Now as I publish this post the daylilies and stargazers blooms are gone until next year.
One of the last daylilies
Another of the final daylily blooms
One last Chorus Line Daylily bloom for this garden season
Stargazers put on a beautiful exit show in the garden
These hydrangeas were here when we bought Two Holt.
Hydrangea blooms
And though it doesn't bloom, I have to show you a picture of our beautiful Japanese Hakone Grass. I love it!
So will there be any more garden sights to thrill us this year? Oh, yes! The toad lily blooms and the strawberry vanilla hydrangea blooms are coming. The munchkin oak leaf hydrangea leaves will give us a fall show. Our fothergilla shrubs will be turning bright orange. There's still plenty to see before the garden goes to sleep for the winter. Don't you just love a garden?
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