Two plants that were already here when we moved in, and I like the creamsicle effect of the elderberry blooms (a bit past prime right now) with the orange ditch lilies.

Clematis Mikelite with rose buds in the background. The rose doesn’t like the heat and humidity combo so the buds aren’t opening.

Clematis John Huxtable

Hydrangea Annabelle behaving thuggishly with this poor overwhelmed spireaon one side of the kitchen door, our most-used entry.

Standing on the kitchen step with my back to Annabelle looking at the garden to the other side of the walkway. This is mostly red, yellow and white in spring with irises, columbine, and red flowered honeysuckle, but in summer it has all colors at once.

clematis Prince Charles

Clematis Venosa Violacea and Veronicastrium Apollo.

Calycanthus

kniphofia AKA Red Hot Poker Plant AKA torch lily

Hollyhock

Such a wide variety of pretty flowers, NHBabs! Your whole yard must be amazing.

I only have a few things to offer now - the daylilies are starting, later than many because it's fairly shady here. These pictures were taken within the last four or five days, in the order of their appearance.

Hemerocallis 'Corky'

H. 'Rosy Returns', embedded in soapwort

H. 'American Revolution', with soapwort

The first double ditch lily (probably Hemerocallis fulva florepleno)

Besides daylilies, I think this is adenophora (inherited) with soapwort (inherited):

It's early to show the Hosta 'Blue Angel' flowers, but I'm afraid the Hydrangea 'Blue Billow' will be gone by when the hosta flowers are at their prime.

Claire

Nice, Claire! I really like the way the soapworts combine with the red-toned daylilies.

My gardens are relatively large, so there is usually something blooming somewhere. But the bed I posted last month filled with flowers spent about two weeks relatively bare, though there are a few pink phlox just starting open up.

July is a busy month for us - both my kids have birthdays and the non-profit I volunteer for has it's annual fundraiser. In addition to my own gardens, I am now running 2 community vegetable gardens which donate all their organic produce to area food banks. It's a LOT of work!

Zinnias opening up...

Crocosmia Lucifer

Annabelle hydrangea - I owe a debt of gratitude to this board for this suggestion! I planted a tiny 4 inch pot maybe 4 years ago in my dry, shady garden and it has done SOOOOOO well :) I want to plant it everywhere!

My first go at designing my own planters (hummingbird friendly) for our deck

Epipactis helleborine - a random terrestrial orchid that I have never seen before and didn't plant. For this orchid grower, I'm just shocked!

Everything looks happy, and you sound really busy! Two community gardens!

The Epipactis is a nuisance plant in some areas.

I'm shocked that the Epipactis even grew since it's super dry there and it's a struggle to get anything to grow in the first place. I would imagine that it's a nuisance in wetter environments, but I'm happy to see it :)

I see some familiar plants in some of the posts, such as Crocosmia Lucifer and Red Hot Poker. I've had both of those for several years, and this year for some reason they both disappeared. It's a mystery. I've also had some apricot gladioli that have been coming up every year for at least 20 years (never dig them out for winter!) but this year they also disappeared. Not a trace of any of those that I mentioned. But still, my Agapanthus, which is so-so hardy here, is thriving and looks great.

Bill, the voles like both the red hot poker and Crocosmia Lucifer in my garden, but I don’t know if they are an issue for you. Over about 10 years, my Lucifer has totally disappeared, but since I know that it is hardy enough here, I will likely replant in protective baskets at some point.

Do you have any photos from your garden?

i would love to see a few more folks adding photos of their gardens, whether veggies of ornamental. Over the years I have found these threads to be really useful in finding plants that do well in New England.

Babs I had posted on last moth's "Show me" a few photos. Haven't really taken anything new. Lilies are nice right now, so maybe I can take some of those and post. As for voles, I've never seen them here.

So now I have two things to envy you for, Bill, the zone you are in and the lack of voles! I did see you photos for June. Has the Lithodora you planted a number of years ago held up? I really loved he photos you have posted in previous years of your front yard garden with the rock and low growing flowering perennials.

Babs, the Lithodora perished in one of the colder winters a few years ago, but I have bought another one this year. I will try to place it in a more protected spot.

Nothing exotic here, just the stalwarts reappearing on schedule.

Garden phlox in the Phlox Protection Zone. There's Grenadine Dream, Wendy House, and Purple Kiss in there. These are all medium height phlox and bloom before the tall ones. The rambling rose in the background is fading.

I saw a woodchuck a few weeks ago but it doesn't seem to have noticed the phlox, hopefully because of the fence and the soapwort. The woodchuck was eating birdseed on the ground which is fine with me - better to eat birdseed than phlox.

The daylily Frans Hals is blooming in several locations, here next to a Bosnian pine and an American Revolution daylily (and a soapwort).

An inherited No-ID daylily is blooming.

and Corky is still opening.

Hemerocallis 'Pardon Me' has been around for a while.

And Hosta 'Blue Angel' is still blooming, getting bigger every year.

I still have late daylilies in bud that won't bloom for a while yet. And late garden phlox (woodchuck-permitting).

Lilies are in bud, waiting for whatever lilies wait for.

Claire

The first lily opened today; Lilium 'La Claridad', one of my favorites. Although, to be honest, I don't really have any unfavorite lilies. I love its subtle pink wash and the pink freckles.

Claire

Just to give hope to those of you who may have given up on lilies because of the red lily leaf beetle. Another lily opened today,

Lilium 'Arabesque'.

I've only seen one or two beetles this year and they were rapidly destroyed. i have more lilies in bud and no sign of a beetle recently.

Claire

I’ve at last figured how to post photos from my phone...I hope lol.

Here’s my swamp milkweed, one of 3 I planted this spring and the only one blooming (so far). The plants on the left are jewelweed rescued from a neighbor’s trash heap (with permission) & a little too happy to be where they are, so I may have to do something about them soon ... :-}

My big doublefile viburnums by my deck are fruiting now, but they're not ripe enough to be eaten by the birds. The colors are pretty though. That's a clivia blooming on the deck.

If you squint you can see a couple of blue-black berries in there. They won't last long once the birds find them.

The Summer Snowflake viburnum still has flowers along with fruit, although the fruit don't seem to be as far along as the big doublefile viburnum.

Claire

Just a few pictures. Things are “in between” right now

My happy coincidence, Wahpeton’s Wish day lily, feverfew, and Cherry Caramel annual phlox

And, lastly, I did have a peony bloom in mid July!