What are your summer flowers blooming?

IL847 · August 2, 2020, 7:05pm

Jasmine blooms in Summer

mamuang · August 2, 2020, 7:11pm

Annie,
Thanks to you. I feed my jasmine plants a lot more fertilizer for blooms. It starts blooming now.

IL847 · August 2, 2020, 7:30pm

For some reason all my Arabian Jasmines didn’t do well this year. Lack of vigorous growth, leafs color distortions and small, not much blooming. I think they either lack of some minerals, or soil ph is too high.

mamuang · August 2, 2020, 7:53pm

Mine, too. Definitely nutrient deficiency judging from some discoloration of leaves. I started using 20-6-20. It seems to work.

Barkslip · August 2, 2020, 11:37pm

I found this walking around my property. It showed up facing south where I had cut trees. It’s a semi-sloping, hillside with heavy clay. I thought wow maybe that’s a salvia but nope.

Campanula americana
American bellflower

Luisport · August 4, 2020, 2:24pm

Barkslip · August 4, 2020, 2:26pm

Groovy house you got here Luis. Potted/in-ground plants.

Dax

Luisport · August 4, 2020, 2:31pm

Thank’s! We like poted plants/flowers… we love orchids!

KSprairie · August 6, 2020, 3:51pm

From my garden I picked some basils- cinnamon, lemon, and sweet Italian. Added a few snapdragons, calendula, zinnia, bells of Ireland, and forget-me-not.

I have let moss roses reseed every year in my vegetable garden. The red is so vibrant, I can see them blooming from my kitchen windows.
These are growing alongside the celeriac.

mrsg47 · August 6, 2020, 7:06pm

We call that plant Portulaca, because there is a true rose that is also called a moss rose.

mamuang · August 6, 2020, 7:19pm

I also thought that was a Moss rose, one of several types of roses.

I love the flower with herb arrangement. That is pretty and creative.

KSprairie · August 6, 2020, 7:46pm

Yes, it is Portulaca grandiflora. Commonly called moss rose. This is why we should use Latin names I suppose, to avoid confusion over common names!
My apologies!
I looked up the rose, called Moss Rose. I found a Lady Moss, Very beautiful! Is that the Rose you were referring to?

@mamuang- thanks! I almost didn’t plant the cinnamon basil. It was free seed with my Bakers Creek order last year. I liked it just for its scent and looks so I planted more this year. I don’t think it has a culinary use for me. I like to inter-plant the basils among my tomatoes.