As many of you know Persicaria "Golden Arrows" is one of my fave part shade perennials.

Here it is in bloom today:

And it will get more and darker flowers over the next month and it will still look excellent into October. So two full months in bloom.

Not much afa perennials are concerned :-) I just don't have that wide a selection in my postage stamp sized garden and most of the ones I do grow are early season bloomers. But I must say that my hydrangeas and hardy fuchsias are looking very good!! As are most annuals and "temperennials" but those are all in containers.

But I must say that my hydrangeas and hardy fuchsias are looking very good!!

Hey gg. I am curious if any of your hydrangeas are in pots? I ask as I have one in a container, having survived its first winter in the garage. It is looking pretty good right now.

Other than a couple of still young starts waiting to be planted, I only have 2 in pots. Pistachio (which is looking killer at the moment!) and Little Honey oakleaf, which also looks great foliage-wise.....just no flowers.

Sorry....neither photo is of the best quality. Midday here and the sun is strong and glaring!!

Your "Pistachio" is looking so good.

Little honey looks great. I've admired it a few times in other people's gardens and over the years, as the shade here increases, I might give it a go as well.

Rudbeckia triloba is now in full force

A friend gave me sedum 'bon bon' years ago and it's done so well here.

and the chrysanthemums should have been cut back in June to delay blooming....

In lots of shade, "Woodland Sunflower" (Helianthus divaricatus) :

Too hot and humid again today to wander around taking close-ups :-) So I took some overview pictures from indoors and from the front and back porches.... Green, as always, is the dominant color and we've had enough rain this summer that it's still a lush jungle out there - emphasis on the 'jungle' since it's been too hot and buggy to work out there! Way too many weeds, and lots of deadheading needed.... :-(

You are all likely tired of the my backyard pictures, but here are a few more.... It's hard to tell in these pictures but there are lots of hydrangeas blooming now in the 'wet corner' area and the white corydalis is still putting out blooms - starts in early May and just keeps going, although the biggest display in in late May and early June. The clematises on the north fence did not do well this year - except for 'Betty Corning'. 'Huldine' usually does well here but it only is flowering on the outside of the fence this year. In the front garden it has done very well on the tuteur though (no pictures of that though....)

Looking SW from back porch:

Looking towards 'wet corner' from our 'office' window:

Looking east up the north alley from the back porch - the astilboides desperately need deadheading and the clematises on the fence by the gate are looting very scruffy!:

Looking towards the front bed and driveway border from the dining room window - the right side of the arbour is now almost covered by the euonymus but I'm still not sure whether it's a good idea - any opinions yes or no...?

A closer view of the driveway hibiscuses starting to bloom:

The south driveway border from the front porch:

I hope it cools off soon so we can work out there before we totally lose control!

katob, I love your triloba. Are some of those "Prairie Glow"?n(You are ahead of us. I see some of our triloba plants are blooming but just a few).

well that’s funny woody, I was just looking at my own arbor this afternoon and thought it looked kind of bare with what’s on it. It then occurred to me I should try some euonymus like yours!

yes rouge it’s all prairie glow. I don’t know if one or the other color will dominate over the years but right now I like the mix

katob - I'm beginning to think that keeping it nicely clipped to the arbour shape may turn into more work than we want to do...! At this point it still hasn't completely covered the arbour so we're still doing some tying-in and selective pruning - maybe it'll be less fuss once we only need to do an all-over pruning. It's going to be interesting to see how it looks when the heptacodium tree blooms in September. Last year the euonymus was only partially covering the arbour. What it looks like this winter will also be important as making the arbour an evergreen structure was partly why we used the euonymus. So the jury is still out on whether it stays or goes :-)

Beautiful pictures!

I planted this Siloam Double Classic in Spring and like it so much that I ordered 6 more yesterday.

Delphiniums started last week and lilies are almost done.

Persicaria polymorpha in its third year, started from a tiny plant:

Liatris is starting to bloom, with clematis and geranium Rozanne:

The sedum at the bottom is not blooming yet, but who needs flowers when you have such pretty foliage:

Aug 6:

Nothing really extraordinary but here’s my sanguisorba officinalis and zingiber mioga. For those who are not familiar the flowers of the zingiber mioga grow on the base of the plant and it’s unopened flower buds are delicious. We harvested over 50.

Not a bloom as such but my favourite foliage plant by far; and one of the best names for a plant ie PAINTERS PALETTE:

Here's a few pics of what's blooming in my yard. The gloriosa daisies have been going strong since the 1st of July and so has the orange coneflower. The heleniums started about 2 weeks ago. I like them so much, I went and bought 2 more (Mariachi Bandera and Fuego). I believe the ones pictured are Mariachi Siesta. One was supposed to be Mariachi Salsa but I think it was mis-marked as they look identical to me.

Anyone else growing heleniums? I really love the autumnal colors they provide.

And of course the grasses look great this time of year. Pictured is miscanthus Little Zebra and pennisetum Hameln.

I mainly grow native plants, and I love seeing how they grow naturally in the wild places.

A savanna featuring Helianthus mollis, ashy sunflower.

Asclepias perennis

Asclepias hirtella

savanna

Helianthus angustifolia, swamp sunflower

Arnoglossum atriplicifolia

Prairie grasses, Schizachyrium scoparium and Bouteloua curtipendula.

Blephilia hirsuta, hairy wood mint

Coreopsis tripteris

Parthenium integrifolium, wild quinine

A volunteer kabocha plant that somehow ended up where it is-cucurbita maxima. We eat a lot of it at home but I don’t know how the seed ended up there. I have never seen a foliage of a plant in the cucumber family get this big. Flowers are big and spectacular too imo. No fruits yet sadly

Linda, I absolutely love your helenium! I had pretty much written them all off as being too bright (and weedy looking, IMO) for my tastes, but that Mariachi you have is lovely! I can’t believe that now I’m going to be actively searching for a sneezeweed! Lol

The Garden is pretty slow here right now, as I just got back from a trip and wasn’t able to water or maintain during this dry heat. Not many roses, which are the mainstay of my garden, and most of the salvias and veronica are petering out with the lack of deadheading. Still, it is giving me an opportunity to see which perennials are truly low maintenance and forgiving! I will definitely be spreading certain ones around more.

Moonbeam coreopsis with calibrichoa, and Purple Dome aster behind, about to wash itself in color.

Second year seed grown lavender. I sowed it on a lark. It has amazed me!

creeping baby’s breath. Been blooming for months, without even taking a break after transplanting midsummer. Definitely going to be lining some beds with this! Airy and easy. I need more white anyways.

Vera Jameson sedum with Black and White Minstrel dianthus

some butterfly bush that I forget the name of. Love the color, though. Finally moved it from underneath an overgrown bleeding heart, so it’s beginning to recover from its scraggly state.

white drift rose

Dianthus with the Fairy rose

Ramona clematis. She alternates between this violet shade and an unearthly pale lavender. Not sure what causes the difference, but the lavender variation is hauntingly beautiful.

Mystic Spires salvia and a sad defoliated Zephirine Drouhin. Ah, well. She puts on a good spring show. I need to put a clematis on her.

Some overachieving, floppy, Victoria Blues. 3’+ in height.

Dilly, your garden looks beautiful! Love the pic with the Moonbeam Coreopsis!

I have not grown other types of heleniums but I really do love the Mariachi series! Nice sturdy stems with no flopping and absolutely covered in flowers! The 2 new ones I bought are still in the bud stage. I'll have to take pics when they are blooming. The ones pictured were planted last year and have grown into nice big clumps.

I'm still loving my bronze fennel

Large ornamental sunflower in the "tall" corner

It's such fun to see what's blooming in everyone's gardens!

Helenium 'Red Jewel'

Helenium 'Short n Sassy'

Hosta 'Pineapple Upside Down Cake'

Hydrangea

A crazy Gladiolus that surprises me when it comes back in my zone

My annual Coleus

Canna flower

Wild American Plum Tree that planted itself draping over my driveway

Herbstonne thriving in the wild with no supplemental anything (planted it about 5 years back):

Santa Cruz begonia in the front, blue delphinium and heliopsis in the back.

Miss Mary phlox in front. Monkshood in the back.

Karl Foerster doing its thing, swaying in the wind.

The delphinium that is blooming long after all the rest have finished. Plus it is managing to stay upright in the wind.

My lycoris sanguinea. Blooms every year surprisingly

Enjoying these pictures, thanks all!

Lantana in hot, hot Texas ... this bunch (about half of it is shown here) is from two 4 inch pots I planted last year. Afternoon shade. Almost always has bees/butterflies on it.

Phlox, Lantana, And Salvia greggii (and metal cactus sculpture) ...

I'm new here, and this is a great thread!

Here's my dahlia, gearing up:

The front hibiscuses are reaching their peak - the reds are now starting to bloom. The euonymus on the arbour hasn't quite finished covering the top right corner - hopefully it will do so by the end of this growing season so I can decide this winter whether to keep the euonymus there or cut it down.

From the front porch early this afternoon (pardon the garbage can etc. in the foreground... :-)

Aug 20:

Here's some more.....

Rudbeckia 'Goldstrum' with lavender in the background

Echinacea 'White Swan'

pink & white Rose 'Iceberg'

Petunias

Sunsweet tomatoes - my first time growing them in a pot on the deck

Flower from Hosta 'Venetian Star'

Bee working a hosta flower

Hydrangea paniculata ‘limelight’s I planted for my mom and grandma 3 years ago.

Little late to join but here’s what bloomed in August my way....

Allium ‘millennium’

Sedum ‘blue pearl’

Mixed bed

Phlox

Hydrangeas all blooming.. here is a little quickfire

Hostas

Pitiful (this year) butterfly bush just starting to bloom...About a quarter of its normal size

Agastache ‘Black adder’

Also getting re-blooms on Salvia, Veronica, and delphiniums.

Beautiful sky after a storm last week...

First 2 blooms on my aconitum japonicum. I thought they were darker in color. Is this a different subspecies of some sort?

@Garden_Ho: gorgeous gardens, as always!!

Here are a few pictures taken this week:

Daylily Siloam Peony Display

Incrediball Blush

Love it!!

Coreopsis Moonbeam and sedum Dazzleberry

Bobo and Dazzleberry

Jackmannii

Supertunia Bordeaux, Nepeta Little Trudy, sedum Firecracker and echinacea pow wow Wildberry

Liatris purple and white, and geranium Rozanne

Loving all these beautiful pics! Especially love the hydrangeas!