August Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day
Here are the lovlies blooming in my garden this month. Hover over the thumbnail to see the name or click on the thumbnail for a larger picture. Anyone able to help me name the hydrangeas? Extra points for identifying the bright red bloom.
Tags: Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
August 15 2010 02:43 pm | Flowers and Gardening and Photography
meemsnyc on 15 Aug 2010 at 4:19 pm #
So many pretty colors! Beautiful!
ricki - sprig to twig on 15 Aug 2010 at 4:24 pm #
Lovely collection of photos. I think the bright red flower is Lychnis ‘Maltese Cross’.
andrea on 15 Aug 2010 at 9:15 pm #
looking good over there…! i knew the red flower when i saw it, but couldn’t remember the name until i read ricki’s response… Lychnis! not sure of all the hydrangeas, but surely the middle photo is a Limelight?
Stevie on 15 Aug 2010 at 9:21 pm #
Yes Ricki, The red flower is a Lychnis ‘Maltese Cross’. – awesome – thanks!!
Crafty Gardener on 16 Aug 2010 at 4:53 am #
beautiful blooms for mid August
Heather @ Dusty Bay on 16 Aug 2010 at 7:01 am #
You’ve always got the prettiest mosaics! Gorgeous blooms!
Priscilla Prince on 16 Aug 2010 at 9:28 am #
Beautiful like always! I love your garden!
Stevie on 16 Aug 2010 at 9:38 am #
Hi Andrea, no it’s no limelight. The blooms are small, completely round (ball-shaped), and white. They turn green as they age. The bracts are no larger than a pea and the ball is about the sise of a large grapefruit.
Laura on 16 Aug 2010 at 4:04 pm #
I love the white Hydrangea. They are on my currently coveting list ;)
larry on 16 Aug 2010 at 8:22 pm #
You have a wonderful and varied collection of blooms… fun to see them all! L
melanie watts on 17 Aug 2010 at 7:50 am #
Lychnis ‘Maltese Cross’ . I used to grow this plant. It self seeded like crazy, driving me nuts, eventually I threw most of it in the bush and planted the rest in the grass down by the dugout . I mowed around it every year. It’s probably still there driving whoever lives in that house now, nuts.
Jean on 19 Aug 2010 at 6:16 pm #
Gorgeous blooms. And lovely photos as well. It must also smell heavenly where you live!
Deb Weyrich-Cody on 23 Aug 2010 at 12:15 pm #
Hi Stevie, I also have the same (similar?) White Hydrangea with softball sized blooms, slowly spreading habit, growing only to a delicate 4 feet here in south eastern Ontario. (I picture it in a Faerie’s garden.) It was given to me by my Aunt and, most likely, originally came from my Grandma’s house which was built in the late 1800′s – early 1900′s.
When I once asked a visiting landscaper if he could identify the cultivar, he said that although he couldn’t be specific, it was very old because of it’s size and loose arrangement of blossom clusters.