These add some color, so I’m counting them as “blooms”. On the edge of the garden, the ‘Concord’ grapes are starting to turn to purple. I need to work on my timing so that the cilantro is ready to harvest for making salsa at the same time as the tomatoes and peppers are ready to be picked. Those blooms seem to get whiter every day.Īnother white bloom is out in the vegetable garden. It is definitely going to brighten up the area where it’s planted. Last fall, I also planted Hydrangrea paniculata ‘Tardiva’. And since I moved them, it seems like I have a lot more of them. I think they look a lot better mixed in with other flowers. Last summer, my Resurrection/Surprise Lilies were planted over by the side of the house near an air conditioning unit so I dug them up later in the fall and moved them.

Others call them Naked Ladies because they lack leaves when they bloom. Some gardeners call these Resurrection Lilies because the foliage comes up in the spring and dies back, and then out of nowhere it seems, these stems come up with these big pink blooms. The surprise liles ( Lycoris sp.) started blooming a week or so ago. Late summer? I don’t like the sound of that!

They are passalong plants from my sister-in-law, but they could just have easily come from my grandmother’s garden, as I remember she had hostas that flowered in late summer in her garden, too. Unlike the smaller hosta blooms I see in June and July, these blooms are bigger and have a sweet scent that is lovely and heavy like a hot summer day. These blooms are what I call August Lilies, an old-time variety of Hosta that actually blooms in August. Long gone are the sprouts and tiny flower buds of spring and in their place are mature plants, some just starting to flower and others continuing a show that started much earlier in the summer. The August garden seems to have a certain maturity to it here in my garden. Welcome to Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day at May Dreams Gardens!

Colors of autumn 94 anon