Welcome to Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day for July 2026.
Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, we had a bit of a heat wave week before last but then it cooled down a bit, and we’ve gotten some rain here and there. Now it’s hot again, but that hasn’t kept the flowers from blooming.
Shall we begin the tour?
I’m pleased that I planted hollyhock seedlings last year. They have been blooming for a few weeks now and I like how they give that area of the garden, on the east side of the Vegetable Garden Cathedral, a cottage garden look.
For the rest of the tour, I made up some little graphics in Canva to showcase various flowers. I ended up grouping them sort of by color.
We’ll start with orange flowers and one yellow flower.
Any questions?
How about these yellow flowers?
I’m always wondering about my sanity in planting cup flower, or as some call it cup plant, which is a big plant with a relatively small flower. The botanical name is Silphium perfoliatum. One piece of advice. Don’t let it self-sow!
These are the reddish, purplish flowers that caught my eye!
And finally, more purple flowers and one blue flower.
I realized after I made the little collages that I didn’t show any hydrangeas, which are also blooming. Here’s Hydrangea paniculata ‘Limelight’ in my back garden
It’s an impressive, large shrub. I cut it back late last fall to about three feet so they could install the new fence and look at it now!
Now, let’s do a run down of all the past Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Days for July. No, I don’t expect you to pay much attention to this list. It’s mostly for my record-keeping.
2007 – Wow. A whole bunch of flowers I don’t have any more, like that light pink thread leaf coreopsis.
2008 – I do miss that white flowering shrub clematis.
2009 – The Black-eyed Susan’s were much further along in 2009 than they are today. Go figure. I think it is because they are mostly in the shade now.
2010 – For some reason, toad lilies were blooming. Completely not there season!
2011 – I had lots of false sunflowers blooming, which I don’t have in the garden today.
2012 – This was a big drought year for us, so there wasn’t too much to show.
2013 – I think we were further along than we are this year, based on the corn isn’t quite tasseling yet.
2014 – The garden sure was green. I don’t think it was as far along as this year.
2015 – Kind of a typical July, with many of the same flowers I have today.
2016 – Hard to tell much of a difference from this year. Much the same palette of flowers!
2017 – Culver’s root was blooming and it isn’t blooming today. Again, I think that’s because it is more in the shade then before.
2018 – Once again, not that different from this year.
2019 – I’m reminded that a couple of clematis have disappeared, including Clematis x triternata ‘Rubromarginata’ which was having a moment in 2019.
2020 – I declared it a good year in the garden. I probably gave it all more attention because…well, you remember what happened that year.
2021 – I once again featured some clematis I no longer have.
2022 – This could have been this year.
2023 – A big year for sweet peas, which I didn’t plant this year.
2024 – I had one early blooming Lycoris but otherwise the garden was acting like all the other July months.
2025 – Zinnias were just getting going, much like this year!
That’s it for my garden for Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day for July, my 20th and final one for this month as I wrap up this long-running meme in its 20th year.
What’s blooming in your garden? Whether it’s your first time joining us or you’ve been here for a long time, I’d love to have you join in and share what’s blooming in your garden in the middle of July. It’s easy to participate. Just post wherever you like to show up on the internet about the blooms in your garden on or around the 15th of the month. Then come back here and leave a comment telling us what you have to show us and a link to help us find out you… on your blog, Substack, Instagram, or wherever!
See you again in August.
We can have flowers nearly every month of the year. ~ Elizabeth Lawrence
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