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what's in bloom

What's in bloom in my garden in east central Illinois, zone 5b:

roses (hybrid teas, David Austin English roses, shrub roses,
climbers--all gorgeous but with their blooms frying in the heat)
clematis (pink, magenta, and purple)
coreopsis (moonbeam and early sunrise)
columbine (many different colors and sizes)
achillea  (yellow and red)
knautia macedonia
geum (red--mrs. bradshaw?)
penstemon (blue, rose elf, husker)
dianthus (superbus fringed white and pink ones, spottii, cheddar pinks,
sweet william dark dark red, and many many great so-called annual
telstar types that lived over winter)
daylilies in many shades
upright asiatic lilies in many shades
veronica (tall spike kinds in blue and in pink)
delphinium (blue belladonnas and red cardinale)
scarlet sage salvia
blue erigeron
heirloom sicilian sweetpea
lychnis (maltese cross, vesuvius, rose campion, and brilliant magenta
tiny-flowered)
linum (blue flax and white flax)
sedum (yellow tall and short pink)
althea zebrina (cute purple and white malva flower)
dwarf anchusa (brilliant gentian blue forget-me-not type flowers)
hypericum (creeping st. john's wort)
heuchera (chocolate ruffles and pewter veil)
tiarella (tiny white candles in the shade bed)
anemone sylvestris (planted late, thinks it's spring)
centranthus ruber (red valerian)
campanulas (short and tall kinds)
hardy geranium (psilostemon, sanguineum, cinereum, lancastrium,
johnson's blue)
tradescantia (blue spiderwort)
yellow iceland poppy
astilbes in various shades
anthony waterer spirea
red bee balm (monarda)
lavendar angustifolia (munstead--the hidcotes are still too small)
dranunculus (blue flowers)
scutellaria (light blue and white bi-colored blooms)
tall phlox (starfire)
lythrum (garden variety of purple loosetrife, not an environmental
danger here)
oenothera (evening primroses: missouriensis and tetragona)
senecio (ligularia) the rocket (yellow spire of blooms in the shade, big
leaves)
shasta daisies
...
and many other perennials (not to mention annuals!) that I can't picture
sitting here in the office (sigh) instead of being home in my garden
(TGIF).

Susan Campanini
in east central Illinois
zone 5b, min temp -15F×
e-mail:  campanin@uiuc.edu








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