June is the first month full of flowers here in central New Hampshire.
What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade. — Gertrude Jekyll
We’ve certainly come a long way since December.
Fruit guild in December:
Fruit guild in June:
Vegetable Garden in December:
Vegetable Garden in June:
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And now on to the rainbow colour arc of June blooms.
Red (and pink)
dianthus from a former year’s Butterfly Mix seed packred-orange zinniacomfrey buds and blooms
red-pink rhododendronred and purple rhododendronsMiss Kim lilac‘Pink Profusion’ Gillenia trifoliata (Bowman’s Root)pink baptisia (and anemone, juniper, dwarf Alberta spruce)geraniumspink geraniumsdianthusdianthus, close
Orange and Yellow
orange azaleas in the raincream and yellow/orange and orange azaleascream and orange azalea in the raintrollius (globeflower)yellow Gazania flower (annual)white rhododendron with pink, yellow, and beewhite rhodo with speckled yellowyellow iris with white & yellow/orange azaleasyellow baptisia (false indigo)close-up of yellow baptisia
amsonia and lupines with rhodos in eveningamsonia flower, closeblue iris with centaureacentaureacentaurea, closepurple lupinelupineblue-purple lupine and pink-purple Mother of Thyme, plus some blue scillablue salviapurple chive flowerpurple columbinepurple geranium
And peonies are just about to bloom:
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Enjoy your June, wherever you are and whatever’s blooming in your garden.
Very interesting to see the contrast between your winter and summer garden! You have a beautiful collection of flowers and obviously, a beautiful garden too. I love the photo with the lupins, rhododendrons and amsonia in what I imagine is your front garden.
I so can not believe that I missed Bloom Day! It was just too late in the day yesterday when I got around to doing it. In most regions, it was probably already today. Boo hoo. I will try next month.
Your rhododendrons are very different from ours. The big white ones look like ‘Helen Schiffner’ untill one gets a closer look at the flowers with yellow.
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Very interesting to see the contrast between your winter and summer garden! You have a beautiful collection of flowers and obviously, a beautiful garden too. I love the photo with the lupins, rhododendrons and amsonia in what I imagine is your front garden.
I so can not believe that I missed Bloom Day! It was just too late in the day yesterday when I got around to doing it. In most regions, it was probably already today. Boo hoo. I will try next month.
Your rhododendrons are very different from ours. The big white ones look like ‘Helen Schiffner’ untill one gets a closer look at the flowers with yellow.