Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – August 2009

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Most of my recent posts have been about the dahlias and lilies blooming in my garden. Here are a few snapshots of some of the other flowers currently in bloom around my zone 6b garden. Check out all of the Bloom Day posts at May Dreams Gardens.

Rudbeckia ‘Golden Glow’ in the Bird Garden

Scarlet Runner Bean in the Bird Garden

Sunflower in the Cutting Garden

Obedient plant in the Walled Garden

Ageratum in the Rose Garden

Sweet Peas in the Cutting Garden

Cockscomb in the Egg Garden

Rudbeckia lacinata in the Bird Garden

Gladiolus in the Front Border

Purple Angelica in the Front Border

Japanese Anemone in the Front Border

Brown Eyed Susans in the Front Border

Gardening Gone Wild’s Picture This Photo Contest–Down On Your Knees: Cyclamen hederifolium, Sowbread Cyclamen, 1597

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This is my entry to this month’s Picture This Photo Contest at Gardening Gone Wild. The theme is “Down on your Knees” and we were asked to take a new picture on our knees or lower.
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For my picture of these tiny pink cyclamen, I had to get on my knees and forearms. They are about two inches tall and are at the base of the white pines on Goldberry Hill.
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These Sowbread Cyclamen were purchased from Old House Gardens. They are described as fall blooming, but they are blooming in my 6b garden now (August), perhaps because of the cooler summer.