I missed the deadline of the 15th for GBBD but I wanted to take photos for my own records so I will share with you what is flowering on the 16th July.
The rain during the last weeks combined with below average temperatures mean that the garden is a pleasure to be in and that many more flowers are blooming for a longer period of time. Roses have usually given up by now, but there are lots in the garden. I think the Perovskia is the best it has ever been and even Cistus are continuing to flower. Foliage is lush; the garden is at last full of butterflies and bees and now that it has become hot the cicadas fill the air with their chattering sound.
As there are a lot of images I have created a slide show on flickr please click on the image below to see everything that is blooming in My Hesperides Garden.
Swallowtail on Lavender
I’m sure you’ve already visited Carol at Maydreams to see for blooms for July
Creating my own garden of the Hesperides 
I enjoyed your slide show! Your garden is always a virtual delight. You put a lot of love into it, and your lovely blooms smile in return!
Thank you Debbie, that’s true.
Great show! Why is the lavender leaning? My provence lavender (year 2) is not blooming yet….I wonder why?
The lavender is leaning after the wind and rain, and it always falls over a bit when its flowering the flower heads must be too heavy for the stems.
beautiful picture
I think you missed the slide show, just click on the image.
You’re right – I was taken with your swallowtail picture and didn’t realize there were more! But I just looked through the slide show now, while sipping my morning coffee. What a glorious array of different flowers (most new to me). Thank you – a feast for the eye!
You’re right – I was taken with your swallowtail picture and didn’t realize there were more. I looked at them all, while sipping my morning coffee. What a glorious array of different flowers. Thank you – a feast for the eyes.
I’m glad you enjoyed them.
Wonderful! The lavender, Verbena and Perovskia are some of my favourites. Could you tell me what the tall fleshy yellow flowering plant is? The seed pods are pretty too. (After the grasses and before a pink rose – if I counted right, picture 33)
Wow, you were really apying attention to count the number of the image. It is Caesalpinia gilliesii. Not very hardy so I don’t think it would survive your winters. It does look very exotic and this year is flowering for much longer than last year.
Thanks Christine. I actually tried sowing some Caesalpinia pulcherrima this spring and they just hated the cool wet spring and died! Oh well. Nice to see yours looking so lovely!
It is looking great this year, when it is very hot, branches die back and look ugly.
Hi Christina, I am marvelling at your garden, your photographs are lovely, love the slide show too. We are in the midst of heatwave here, so plants have gone from lush to very parched.
When plants are used to having water on a very regular basis they soon suffer; mine suffered here after the very wet spring when we had a week of hot weather, now they are coping better as they are getting used to the high temperatures (mid 30’s°C)
Wow, that was a wonderful slide show! I’m so glad I got myself a long cold drink of elderflower cordial before it started! Your flowers are certainly showing their appreciation of the rain you’ve had, loved you swallow tail butterfly.
Thank you Pauline, I’ve been appreciating the slightly cooler weather too!
What a treasure trove you have in your garden in July!
I do think of it as treasure, especially after the drought of last year. This year’s flowers are very precious.
Gorgeous, what a fun way to capture everything.
Wow, that was some slide show! Beautiful! But that photograph with the swallowtail wind the prize without a doubt!
I was very pleased about the swallowtail, usually it takes lots of attempts before I’m successful with butterflies but this one was the first one!
Sounds (and looks) like nature conspired to create a perfect moment in your garden…splendiferous!
Maybe you missed the slide show?
Beautiful!
Enjoyed seeing your prolific blooms. Great photo of the butterfly too.
The butterfly was a bonus!
Lovely set of shots on Flicker, I just recently signed up there myself. I love the butterfly shot, beautiful.
Thanks Karen. I used to use Flickr a lot but found it very user unfriendly, it is much better now so will do more posts in this way when there are a lot of images to show.
Beautiful stuff, Christina, in my garden everything is dry and I’m running forth and back with buckets. I love that burgundy spider hemerocallis with pink (pink?) yarrow and the dark sedum, a very elegant combination.
Yes it is pink yarrow, a bit faded now it was crimson or rather magenta! The Sedums are my cuttings from last year, they grew very well. I wanted to do more but I might be a bit late now; what do you think?
I don’t remember but I think I did my sedum leaf cuttings at this time of the year, last year. I still have a lot of them in little pots, I really need to have them planted asap. If you have a milder summer than usual I guess it really worths the try now.
thanks Alberto, yes, I will try to do some, I love the dark purple one and they are very happy in my garden so its worth having lots.
And you have butterflies to go with such gorgeous flowers…how nice to have lower temps…heat wave here and i haven’t enjoyed my garden in weeks.
You sound like I felt last year when the drought combined with high temperatures made the garden a torture rather than a pleasure. I hope it cools down soon for you.
Loving the swallowtail on the lavender! I’ve just been watching those today in Provence, I am very much enjoying the Mediterranean weather! Hope you are too 🙂
Yes, I’m enjoying it a lot this year.
Your garden looks fabulous…love the shot of the gravel path through the beds!
Thank you Scott, pathways are a nice enticement into the garden and always more interesting than the individual plants. I like b
Bloom day as record of what is flowering at one particular time but really garden is how those plants are put together don’t you think?