Mid-July Flowers Can Handle the Heat

It’s been real hot around here lately. The last couple days have been lettuce-bolting days and the nights have been sticky. Bringing in the morning air – that’s our mountain air conditioning – started at 72 degrees at the crack of dawn today. I hear a siesta coming after lunch…!

In and around the vegetable and flower gardens we have lots of flowers blooming:

  1. purple cone flowers*
  2. marigolds*
  3. yarrow*
  4. catnip*
  5. foxglove
  6. nasturium
  7. rudbeckia
  8. cosmos
  9. geraniums
  10. portulaca*
  11. fennel
  12. cilantro*
  13. petunias
  14. pansies
  15. impatiens
  16. spiderflowers*
  17. sunflowers*
  18. orange tiger lilies
  19. rose campion*
  20. hawkweed
  21. begonias
  22. comfrey
  23. thimbleweed
  24. bee balm
  25. goldenrod
  26. evening primrose
  27. poke
  28. touch-me-not
  29. asiatic day lily
  30. lopseed
  31. anise hyssop*
  32. oregano*
  33. zinnias
  34. lettuce*
  35. zucchini
  36. tomatoes
  37. peppers
  38. cucumbers
  39. ground cherries
  40. watermelons
  41. oxeye daisy
  42. fleabane
  43. dill*

Not too many wild herbs on my summer list, but there are a few we can visit in another post! Pictures to come!

*Marks the happy re-seeders! All we have to do is transplant them where we want the volunteers to grow, or put them in a recycled pot to give to a friend or neighbor.

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