Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day June 2014

How can it be the middle of June already?  It's the fifteenth of the month and time to join with Carol at May Dreams Gardens and garden bloggers all over the world to post what's blooming in our gardens.  Follow the link to Carol's site to see what's blooming all over the planet right now.

Here are a few of the plants blooming in my garden at present.  It's that time of year when there are too many flowers to photograph!

Begonias are starting their summer-long season of bloom!

Fuchsias make me smile and the humming birds swoon.

Notice how the marking of Pelargonium 'Indian Princess' leaves is close to that of the petals of Fuchsia 'Blackie'  and the cordyline picks up both the colors of the sepals and petals.

Alstroemeria 'Rock 'n' Roll' also has foliage of which both slugs and I are very fond.  

Random alstroemeria.

Of Dianthus 'Rainbow Lovliness,' Rosemary Verey (1910 - 2001) writes, "The fragrance is unlike any other dianthus"  (The Scented Garden)  This fragrance is sweeter, like a perfume for women.  Allthough Allwood came up with this before the second world war, this is my first year to have it.  Because of the amazing scent, it certainly won't be the last!

This has ben a good year for blooms on my kalmias.  I love the cute little buds that look like sea creatures of some sort!

Here's the inherited NOID camellia japonica that puts out blooms all summer instead of making one big show earlier in the year with all of it's friends.

 Martagon lily from Far Reaches has sent up two bloom stalks this year.  Sweet.

Rogersia blooming for the first time since I planted it 3 years ago.  I grow it for the foliage but the blooms are nice.

Acontium or monks hood.  There was a nice clump of these standing straight and tall just a couple of days ago then came the wind and rain.  I held this one up for the shot.

The Meconopsis cambricas continue their cheerful show. 

Impatiens niamniamensis

As I was taking photographs of flowers, I noticed a rather strong smell and thought that an animal had died in my garden.  There's no mistaking the odor of rotting flesh.  Instead, it was just one of many inherited Dracunculus vulgaris in bloom.  Fortunately the "fragrance" only lasts for a day or two when the flower first opens. Unfortunately, there are quite a few of these in different places in my garden which don't all open at once.  Fortunately, their bloom season is short.

The last of the flowers of Kolkwitzia amabilis  are blooming now but the the seed pods are also gorgeous.

 Sinocalycanthus chinensis (formerly Calycanthus chinesis is a Chinese (as the name states) close relative of our native Calycanthus floridus.

Zantedeschia  A.K.A. calla lilies  Survived their late winter transplant well.  Although not yet as tall as they were last year, they are every bit as floriferous!

Echium candicans variegata.

Yes, I too fell victim to the charms of the belle of the ball this year, Digiplexis 'Illumination Flame.' 

Sometimes combinations suggest themselves like this purple tradescantia with an orange abutilon with matching purple calyxes.

Weigela looymansii Aurea This image doesn't show how gloriously gold the foliage is!

Deutzia

Sarracenias

Happy Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day all and thanks again Carol for hosting the party!