The summer has been relatively kind to the garden, although some plants have become stressed in the last couple of weeks of intense heat (40’s °C). The roses especially appreciated the rain that fell even well into July.
Thanks as usual to Carol at May Dreams Garden for hosting us all; have a lovely Bloomday, the 15th is a public holiday in Italy, everybody heads to the beach to enjoy the last holiday of summer; many won’t even go to the beach after the 15th saying the season has ended even though it can still be lovely here until October. It is also a religious holiday the Assumption of the Virgin.
Click on the image below to see every flowering in My Hesperides Garden in the middle of August.
Rosa ‘Scepter’d Isle’
absolutely beautiful slide show!!! A bit of heaven on earth.
Lovely images to go with my morning coffee Christina! (Which is late today as it’s a holiday here too in Catholic Bavaria) The sunset photos are gorgeous!
Happy holiday Cathy, we’ve been at the beach today, lovely!
A beautiful collection of flowers. It is lovely to see the roses in the sun still.
Roses in August usually only happen if you give lots of water.
Nice blooms Christina and exuberant skies.
I couldn’t resist including the sunset, it was so dramatic
What a fantastic number of beautiful flowers, they certainly seem very happy in spite of all the heat you have been having, have you had to do a lot of watering?
Not as much as in other years
As usual you have so many beautiful flowers. The slide show would help me not spend so much time sorting. If two images are both good I could include them both.
Yes, that,s very true and it’s quicker to load than uploading to WordPress although that has improved a lot.
The summer has been kind indeed, romancing your garden to bring it to the peak of perfection.
It’s peak is end of Msy, June and September and October, August is usually its worst month so I am happy this year that there is beauty to enjoy.
So beautiful! Enjoy the holiday!
Thank you very much Sheryl
How interesting…it seems similar here as our Labor day holiday the first Monday in Sept. Summer ends and beaches close as school starts…but summer has 3 weeks left…very strange to end summer in August.
Great slide show. I LOVE the flowery meadow! Are those Marguerite Daisies? And not only do you have some fine roses, but also you still have a lovely golden daylily.
Loved your slide show. You have some gorgeous late summer colour. I hope you enjoyed your holiday.
I hope you had a wonderful bloom day! I’ve been meaning to spend more time at your blog, so now I will. Once Blotanical V2 is ready, it will be easier to visit new blogs and new friends. Thanks for visiting my blog! I didn’t realized that the Italians stop going to the beach after Aug. 15! For us, it generally ends after the first weekend in September. Great post, and your blooms are lovely!
Some Italians obviously do still go to the beach, the weather can be lovely into October, but in their minds they think summer is over and plan to do other things.
What a gorgeous slideshow! So many gorgeous flowers and what a lovely way to record your garden over the weeks and months.
Thanks Anna. the slideshow is nice to look back on.