Bloomscrolling--what's in bloom where you are?

[Bernard]

I have more Hollyhocks than ever this year and the tallest one is very tall!

The last one is over 8 feet tall.

Also, my oldest Clematis is blossoming but the whole vine looks a little tired this year.

Rudbeckia:

[rustyfingers]

@Bernard
Daylilies here too.

[AndyD]

Lovely flowers.

Hollyhocks was the first 'proper song' I learnt on piano after a few weeks of lessons at the age of 5.

[Piano*Dad]

Went for a walk today and found these wildflowers. Santa Fe Phlox. Now I want to plant them in the garden!

[Bernard]

@Piano-Dad Pretty flowers, I love the color.

[rustyfingers]

We're ready for the Monarchs.
Native butterfly weed

[Steve Miller]

Gyor , Hungaria.

The largest begonia I’ve ever seen!

https://share.icloud.com/photos/099JlnYGSQ3cGwJqfW8NPU6jw

[wtg]

That is a monster. It reminds me of a similarly sized pot of geraniums that the owner of the hair salon I used to go to manage to keep alive. Somehow he'd get these huge pots into the front of the shop before the frost and he would keep them going all winter. He finally retired last year and sold the building. I wonder where those huge terra cotta pots and the geraniums went...

[Steve Miller]

Schonbrunn castle, Vienna. Home of the Hapsburgs for a couple of centuries. Nice grounds.

https://share.icloud.com/photos/01al2-WL30bdheQiW1fzWgw9w

https://share.icloud.com/photos/0be-bU8CJqaMx9-R2dylE6uyA

https://share.icloud.com/photos/084XpFTjkq0bL8g4aGL_A2UCg

https://share.icloud.com/photos/082JETKi_MpKWQ0NDven7AEVA

https://share.icloud.com/photos/052wCLQUYmFj9SxUC0DVFvUiA

[AndyD]

Impressive grounds.

Here the (neighbours) buddlea is in full flower

[wtg]

Nice.

I have a 'Miss Molly' buddleia that I thought I had lost after last winter. They tend to die back to the ground in cold winters but the roots usually survive and they will re-sprout come spring. Mine took forever but it's finally grown about a foot. Hopefully it will bloom before summer is over!

[Bernard]

@wtg Same happened here. I tried two separate times to grow them, but they die down in the winter and come back smaller the following spring until nothing comes up. I gave up, we don't have the climate for them... yet.

[AndyD]

She ruthlessly chops her buddlea (hedge effectively) back each year and they spring back.
I've seen a couple dozen butterflies on them.

Meanwhile I turned round from the DIY and saw our side path was beaming in the sun

[rustyfingers]

Spectacular. The drought has taken its toll here.
But the hydrangeas are very blue (cuz I rake the fall leaves around it.)

[Bernard]

Don't know if this counts here... it's the result of a blossom.

My first tomato of the year. I'm teaching it how to play the piano.

It may be small, but it was ultra packed full of incredibly delicious flavor.

[rustyfingers]

@Bernard First Tomato by Rosemary Wells