August continues to plod along, with temps all over the map, fires still raging and water progressing to being more valuable than oil. As a bit of respite, here are some photos from my garden, spread over the last 3 weeks. Lilies lead the list and then a range of flowering perennials follow. Enjoy!
Lily Anouska. This roselily was my favorite new lily of the year. Very prolific and fragrant too.
Lily Sweet Surrender. I thought this variety may have died but it was just a late bloomer.
I only got one Lily Double Sensation flower this year but it was fabulous! I ordered more!
Lily Solution. Ditto. Just one flower but great!
Tho shot in a bit too much shade, this is my Lily Polar Star, a double form variety.
Lily Bombastic. Huge, vivid and fragrant flowers. Now in its 3rd year and still fabulous.
Lily Flore Pleno tiger lily. This double form is full of dark spotting.
This is a different and more typical tiger lily.
Lily Scheherazade. An Orienpet lily - meaning it's prolific, with large blooms.
Begonia Illumination Apricot. My favorite begonia. Lots and lots of apricot flowers.
Gloriosa lily. Not a true lily but its flowers have been described as 'dancing flames'.
Contrary to the regular use of the description 'blue', not many flowers are a true blue. This Salvia bullulata Pale Form does have robins egg blue flowers, albeit on the petite side.
Erythrina crista-galli. Mine almost died but then rebounded and is putting out its first flowers. As you can see, they are a vivid red.
Speaking of red flowers, my blood lily (Scadoxus) bloomed its first year. Fabulous!
Winterland orchid. This guy blooms faithfully every year, despite living outdoors.
Begonia odorata White. This is another faithfully blooming begonia.
I lost the tag to this begonia but I think it's a rhizomatous type.
This hanging basket someone keeps putting out purple and white fuchsia flowers plus Begonia boliviensis flowers (the orange ones).
