Bloomday, July 2021

It's Garden Blogger's Bloomday! And.... this post is completely backwards from how I wanted to share it. I forgot to start with the Blogger Secret Code Words (stupid glitch on the Blogger software) before I uploaded my photos, thus they're all backwards. We were supposed to start the tour out on the front sidewalk, instead we start at the back of the garage, next to the shade pavilion and then walk backwards through the garden. C'est la vie!

Clematis repens 'Bells of Emei Shan', it's been putting out bloom after bloom. For those of you wondering (Kris) this plant was long thought to be an epiphyte, it's not your normal clematis.

Acanthus mollis, I think it's in too much shade to have the purple bits.
Rhipsalis some something. Photo credit to my fabulous garden help Tiffany, as I could not get close enough—via my knee scooter with a broken ankle—to  take a photo, there were several of these little guys on the plant.
This sweet little orange flower belongs to Dyckia 'Nickel Silver'...
Here's the entire spike and it's plant.
Persicaria runcinata 'Purple Majesty', on top of variegated daphniphyllum leaves
Sarracenia bloom.
This canna! I can't remember if it came with a specific species name, probably. I bought it at Hughes Water Gardens as a short-term substitute for the papyrus I really wanted to use as a feature in the stock tank pond. I planned to go back in June and pick up a papyrus. Ya, joke's on me. Broken ankle meant I went nowhere, but this canna has surpassed my wildest expectations. Look at those bright red seed pods, and the dark red stem...
The flowers are pretty fabulous too, although they're so tall they're tangled up in the Stachyurus salicifolius foliage.
This cute little cactus has been a great bloomer for me.
Sadly I cannot remember it's name It's Mammillaria ‘Red-Headed Irishman’, thanks Nancy! I picked it up at one of our Blogger's Plant Swaps from Alison. I miss Alison.
Aloiampelos striatula, formerly Aloe striatula. As with everything here in NE Portland, there are ants.
An ant-free shot, pulled back, a wider view...
Lysimachia paridiformis var. stenophylla
Paris polyphylla 'Heronswood Form'
Black mondo grass blooms, Ophiopogon planiscapus 'Nigrescens'
Abutilon 'Nuabtang' 
My brief flirtation with lilies a few years back has left me with one returning stem of Lilium 'Conca d'Or'. I'll take it, I mean it's gorgeous...But I wish there were more, and I don't understand why the first bloom to open had to be facing away from the garden.