We are now half way through summer. Officially speaking summer is, as most would know, those lovely months between June and August when vegetation is working overtime to please us with greenery and other colour. As I said in another post, as we get on with our busy lives it feels like blooms are here one day and gone the next. And I’d therefore decided to do a few pauses at regular intervals to look around and see what catches my attention. This post picks up where I left in mid-June and I’m now asking what’s blooming in mid-July?
Walking around the local botanical garden, I thought to myself that it would perhaps be more pertinent to ask what’s not blooming? The blooms I feature here are the ones that I fancied this particular day and are only a fraction of all the fantastic flower displays on show. Pollinators are kept extremely busy!
I reside in an area roughly corresponding to USDA Zone 7a (Zone 2 in Sweden). The plants shown here all prefer a sunny location, so if you like this curated selection, go ahead and plant them together. My personal design outlook though is to stick to a few species and have more of each kind. This makes more of an impact.
