Full Strawberry Moon Garden Blogger Bloom Day

Liatris spicata is a June bloomer in my garden

Tonight the Full Strawberry Moon will be shining over our gardens~Many cultures have named the full moons, but, in the US, the most well known names of the full moons come from the Algonquin tribes who lived in the area of New England and westward to Lake Superior. Strawberry Full Moon was named for the short time that strawberries were ripe for picking.


Today we celebrate the flowers that glow in the daylight! It's Bloom Day and Garden Bloggers all over the known bloggasphere are celebrating the blooms in their garden. You can see more gardens then you can imagine in one day if you stop by hostess extraordinaire Carol of May Dreams Gardens to take the Mr Linky magic carpet ride to adventure.

Here are just a few blooms that make me smile~

Tennessee Purple Coneflower~ Echinacea tennesseensis

An offspring of the many cross pollinated Echinaceas.

Stokesia laevis

We bid ado to the last of the Hypericum frondosum

Yarrow 'Moonshine' has been blooming in a container for more then a month
~without deadheading!

Verbena bonariensis adds needed vertical to garden and is loved by pollinators

Malva sylvestris 'Zebrina'~Contained in a container

Lost label Oriental Lilies~ they light up the garden and smell divine!

Daylilies

daylilies,

and, even more daylilies!

I know this one's name~'Kindly Light' One of the first daylilies with this spidery form!

It's a jumble of daylilies out there~and so many of them lean toward the melon color!

One cannot celebrate a full moon without mentioning Moonflower Vine. It's always a marvelous night for them. They need no sunshine to open. Moonflower waits for those warm summer evenings to unfurl its glorious blooms and release its fragrance. A fragrance that exists only to attract pollinators and gardeners! How I wish it would grow in shade~I would plant it near the screened porch and catch that fragrance all evening and maybe even spot a Luna moth!


Have a sweet day.
xxoogail

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