June blooms, before the gloom

This spring it was all rain all the time, until suddenly it wasn't. If my memory is correct we've had just two rain events in the last 7 weeks, neither of which were substantial. It's been blue skies and warm days, which is very odd for us in May and early June. The gloom is moving back in this weekend however and sticking around into next week. There should be rain. The garden will enjoy the change. So blooms... that's why your here! Here's what I've got...

Aristaloe aristata. The rabbits have done some damage here (4 of 7 stalks taken down), but thankfully they've allowed a few of the blooms to mature.

Here's what the plant looks like.

This is the first time this clump of Yucca filamentosa has been able to send up a bloom spike and not have it be lost in the branches of the Fatsia japonica above.

Just one more thing I am loving about the changes I've made in the front garden (photos soon!).

Volunteer verbascum blooms, I think these are Verbascum olympicum.

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Echium russicum bloom down. While it was tall the hummingbirds were all over it.

Santolina chamaecyparissus 'Lemon Queen'

Hard to photograph but I love the soft yellow dots.

My bougainvillea fairy godfather was here last month. He left this...

Amsonia hubrichtii

NOID sedum

Enlarged so you can see the critter I didn't see until I was looking at the photos on my computer screen. My what long antennae you have...and I like your striped socks.

I think this is Callistemon pityoides 'Excellent'.

And this is Callistemon sieberi, unless I've got them switched, because the really are almost identical.

This is my first tomato blossom since 2020. It was a two-year drought with no tomatoes, thank god that's in the past!

Passiflora 'Aphrodite's Purple Nightie' (WORST NAME EVER!)

Epipactis gigantea 'Serpentine Night'

Sarracenia flowers.

Callistemon viridiflorus

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Paris polyphylla Heronswood form

Lysimachia nummularia

I've been pulling this out by the handfuls, still it's thick.

Saxifraga stolonifera

Rhododendron nakaharai ‘Mariko’. I bought this little plant at the Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden last year, something has been nibbling on the leaves! This is the first time it's bloomed and I couldn't remember the name, so I went label hunting. "Carmine-colored flowers in mid-summer on this low creeping evergreen azalea. The fuzzy-hairy, deep green glossy leaves densely cover the spreading stems of this tidy bit of rabbit food"... dammit! Rabbits.