Photo Friday: June Blooms

Today I want to show some of the things we have blooming here in early June. The perennials around our birdbath are beginning to bloom. We have Heliopsis, Echinacea, Catmint, Stokesia and Tall Phlox planted around it and they are beginning to flower.

birdbath

The Heliopsis is stunning, with variegated leaves and golden yellow flowers.

Heliopsis Sunstruck

Several of the tall phlox are blooming, including this Fashionably Early Flamingo plant covered with flamingo-pink flowers.

Fashionably Early Flamingo phlox

We have quite a few Bee Balms planted, and they are beginning to flower too.

Bee Balm Bubblegum Blast

Bee Happy Bee Balm

We have several coneflowers planted in our Sun Garden area, and one called Big Kahuna is flowering now with its mango-orange blooms.

Big Kahuna coneflower

The red flowered yarrow is blooming too, and ones with yellow and pink flowers should be opening up soon. Common Yarrow can spread and be invasive, but these newer cultivars are more well-behaved in garden settings. Ours are reliably hardy and early summer bloomers.

Sassy Summer Sangria yarrow

Spiderworts are native to our area and much loved by bees and other small pollinators. We have several planted, and they are very bringing some early color to our gardens. One of these came from my wife’s garden before we were married, and another one was given to us by a friend. They are reliable and easy to grow in our area.

spiderwort

another spiderwort

Our other irises are done blooming for the year, but the variegated Japanese iris has just opened up its buds. The variegated leaves are pretty even when it’s not flowering.

Japanese iris

Also blooming now is another taller Japanese iris called Fortune. The plants are loaded with buds, so it looks like it will put on quite a show this year.

Fortune iris

And not all of our blooms are strictly ornamental. The bush squashes are blooming in the vegetable garden, and the containers eggplants are blooming too. Both should give us some early harvests here soon.

squash blossom

eggplant flower

I hope you have enjoyed this look at some of the things we have blooming here in early  June. I will be back soon with more happenings from Happy Acres!



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