Color me August

A/k/a Garden Blogger Bloom Day, a tradition started by that notorious instigator, Carol at May Dreams Garden. 

Hell Strip
The curbside, or hell strip, is looking good, with garden phlox and sedum ‘Autumn Joy’ peaking.

Front
In the front yard there’s Russian sage, globe thistle, sweet autumn clematis, and a pink ‘Knockout’ rose in bloom.  And in what used to be lawn the ‘Wave’ petunias and hyacinth bean vine are mighty colorful (photo on GardenRant).

Back
In the back yard  some rebloom on the Meidiland white rose shows in the photo  right but what I really want to show off is the awesome foliage of this pulmonaria in front of it.  The leaves looked nice enough in the woods where I used to have them but stayed small.  Now that they’re getting morning sun, though, they’re making quite a show, even long past their blooms.  And P.S., my experiment in moving them into afternoon sun ended in failure – in the form of burnt-up leaves.

More blooms in the back garden are thanks to the shrubs ‘Carefree Wonder’ rose,  big-leaf hydrangeas (fading but still packing a punch),  Hydrangea ‘Tardiva‘ at its peak (top photo), spirea ‘Anthony Waterer’ in its rebloom; and the perennials Salvia ‘May Knight’, purple coneflower, black-eyed susans, coreopsis, and red clover (which blooms purple).  I know it’s a mighty short list compared to Carol and most gardenbloggers, if their mid-month reports are any guide.  I try to make it up in the winter, when I start bragging big-time on the evergreens in my garden.

Clover photo credit.