Usually August would include Oriental lilies, daylilies, and hostas but this year those went racing past in July.  The current colour scheme is heavily weighted towards ‘hot’ lots of yellow, hot pink, red, white.  There is some blue, and some of the dusky fall colours: ivory, old gold, rose, dusky blue, mauve are starting up.

Hydrangea: the big Pee-Gee, also known as grave-yard hydrangea, is just spectacular this year: a waterfall of ivory shading to rose almost fifteen feet tall and completely hiding a staircase.  The Endless Summer blue and the Twist-n-shout blue/pink are less happy this year, I think the wonky spring didn’t help, but they are usually a clear blue cloud in the orange/pink/white of the garden.

Garden Phlox: mostly the reverted wild pink, but the white ‘David’, along with ‘Bright Eyes’; it is everywhere here.

Shasta Daisies

Joe-Pye weed

Early goldenrod

Ligularia

Red and blue cardinal flower

Sunflowers

Echinacea

Globe thistles

Yarrow: generally rose/gold shades and a fair amount of wild white

Morning Glories: ‘Grandfather Ott’ purple

Black/Brown eyed susans (Rudbeckia hirta)

Wild thyme

Wild greek oregano

White wood aster (very early for this)

Bergamot: hot pinks/reds

Petunias

Verbana

Cosmos

California Poppies

Jerusalem artichokes

Queen Anne’s Lace

Chicory