The daylily "cherry cheeks" is still going. It has quite a long season. I love that daylily. Also "rocket city" and frans hals are blooming.

The black eyed susans, and the tickseed coreopsis "baby sun". Butterfly bushes. Some roses - but I cut off the blooms and bring them inside in the AM otherwise they get devoured by japanese beetles. The bucks are doing very well and the Austins roses are starting to flush again.

I also have dianthus (pinks) bought from Walmart that have not stopped.
Also the groundcover sedum (kanschiatum - sp?) is blooming. Also catmint.

Ratty: some daylilies, some roses leaves (this year my apothecary rose is mildew city) look pretty nasty too.

Well, my Phlox paniculata 'David' doesn't seem to mind this weather. At least I'm not battling powdery mildew this year.
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My rose of sharons (white with a red center) are going very strong. My Annabelle hydrangeas are blooming. My burgandy daylilies are still blooming. My blueberries are fruiting. In the front, my spirea neon flash are coming into their second bloom after I deadheaded religiously. There's yellow hibiscus up there that's blooming, too. Also, my fountain grasses have gotten their pretty tails. And my impatiens are small but blooming.

Rachel

Thankfully the oppressive heat has subsided! Now if the Japanese Beetles would disappear gardening would be fun again :) Blooming here, in no particular order-
Salvia Blue Bedder
Verbena bonariensis
Verbena Homestead Purple
Clematis Polish Spirit
Delosperma cooperi
Perovskia
Knockout Roses
Gaura Whirling Butterflies
Nepeta Walkers Low
Geranium Rozanne
Salvia Purple Rain
Salvia nemorosa
Crocosmia George Davidson
Asclepias tuberosa
Helenium Mardi Gras
Phlox Purple Flame (David was blooming but something broke the stems)
Agastache Blue Fortune
Agastache rupestris
Coreopsis Moonbeam
Coreopsis Creme Brulee
Aster Monch
Echinacea White Swan & Magnus
Sanguisorba
Buddleia Nanho Purple & Royal Red
Rudbeckia Herbstsonne
Eupatorium Gateway
Platycodon Sentimental Blue
Molinia Skyracer
Pennisetum Karley Rose
Miscanthus Malepartus
Schizachyrium The Blues
Various annuals

Quite a bit yet to bloom, my favorite gardening season is about to start!

Tall Garden Phlox
Coreopsis moonbeam
purple coneflower
Monarda
Butterfly bushes
Rose of Sharon bushes
Crape Myrtle
Salvia
Wave petunias (still going strong)
Day Lilies (Orange)
Impatiens

This is really a bad year..the only thing blooming in my yard are 2 hardy hibiscus, 2 rose of Sharon, and a white butterfly bush..A few Petunias are still hanging on.
I'm happy I take out houseplants, cause more are blooming than perrenials/annuals..Toni

Butterfly bush, dwarf variety - Nanho purple
Purple Coneflowers
Helenium
Monarda, Jacob Cline
Oriental Lilies
Roses - John Davis (great rebloom), William Baffin (a few blooms)and Ramblin' Red (great rebloom). All are hardy climbers.
Asters - just starting
Daylilies - I only have a few varieties, but Stella O'Doro is blooming nicely.
Dianthus - Firewitch has great rebloom.
Laminum - I have the one with light colored leaves & pink flowers. Very pretty.
Rose of Sharon - Double pink and magenta varieties.
Euphorbia Corollata - Has tons of pretty small white flowers.
Joe Pye Weed - Gateway variety.
Scabiosa - Yellow variety.
Phlox - David, Bright Eyes, Nicky, Volcano, Vincent, Jeana,
Orange Perfection, Laura, and a few unnamed pink ones from my Mom's garden. Love this plant!
Rudbeckia triloba, Goldstrum and Herbesomme (forgive misspelling on this one)
Agastache, Blue Fortune. First year, done really well.
Geranium, Roxanne. Pretty.
Knautia macedonica - Red scabiosa.
Nepeta, Pool Bank.
Clematis, Madame Julia Correvon. Sweet Autumn Clematis will be blooming in a few weeks.
Russian Sage. Great plant!
Annabelle hydrangea. Survived being moved 3 times!
Shasta daisy, Alaska.
Loosestrife (purple) non-invasive variety.
Salvia, May Night. Good rebloom if pruned after first flush.
Rose campion, magenta variety.
Lambs ear. I know it spreads, but I use it as an edger and I keep the flowers.
Liatris. Butterflies loves this plant!
Yarrow - Moonshine. Bought this at Lowes for $1.50!

Thanks for the inspiration, everyone! Note to self - wintersow scabiosa and agastache in 2006.

I forgot to add obedient plant. This plant can survive anything!

Right now we've got:

Rudbeckia triloba and goldsturm
Purple coneflower
white wood aster (just starting)
big leaf aster (just starting)
daylilly Chicago Apache (first year, doing amazingly well)
Boltonia nana
Agastache foeniculum (spell?)
Cardinal flower
Great blue lobelia
Helianthus strumosus
delphinium exaltatum
a final few sad hollyhock flowers (this has been a terrible year for them: rust, japanese beetles, other bugs,etc.)
Also final gasps from geranium johnson's blue, peach leaf bellflower, yarrow paprika.

I've had to do a lot of watering this year.

Here in Elgin, IL, we finally had a good rainfall today. Hardly knew what to do after work tonight. So just walked around and looked at the various planted areas, and enjoyed leaving the hoses alone. In bloom in the front rose garden are Knockout, Rugosa Rubra and Snow Pavement. (can't guarantee spelling today!) Then there's the triangle garden in between the driveway loop, and blooming there is Joe Pye weed, Endless Summer Hydrangea, Phlox Nicky and Bright Eyes, Yarrow and a variegated lacecap hydrangea is starting to show some bloom. Alongside the driveway are several Angel's Blush Hydrangeas, they're white now but will change to a pinkish then a rusty color later. The hostas (unknown variety) are starting to send up their blue flowers. More Endless Summer Hydrangeas in various garden beds as well as Nikko Blue. Those babies have been getting water EVERY DAY and are thriving. Most of the phloxes are in bloom, can't remember all the names. Miss Lingard still has a few white flowers here and there. The rugosa roses in my back garden are doing OK -- been picking off Jap. beetles with a large pair of tweezers (all you have to do is catch a leg) and send them to their death into a jar of dish soap and veg oil. Then I leave it out as a message to their cousins -- beware!! Rudbeckia Goldsturm is in bloom, so is the Carefree Beauty rose. The Inula Sonnenspear, a strange, corn-plant type perennial, is not only in bloom, it's having babies everywhere. The flowers look like daisies, growing along a tall stalk. The ligularias are all blooming, both the rocket and the other one with the purple leaf underside. The Hall's honeysuckle has some flowers and it smells so good! The oakleaf hydrangeas are doing nicely, with big panicles of flowers getting fuller and fuller. The Annabelle hydrangeas are also doing well, their white mopheads drooping just a little from their own weight. That's all for now. Greetings from Elgin. Aunt Peach

While many things are blooming for me, the number of blooms is few.

Madame Carriere rose
Phlox
Carpet roses
Arizona rose
Butterfly bushes
butterfly weed
Bee balm

Delphinium look like they're going to rebloom in the next week or so.

Butterfly bush
Butterfly weed
Butterfly flower (DWL!)
Phlox
Hardy Hibiscuses and Tropical Hibiscuses
Cannas
Purple and White Coneflower
Torch Lily (Flame flower)
Hollyhock
Yarrows
Toad Lilies
Mexican Daisies
Fan flower
Whole assortment of Coreopsis
Zinnias
Dragon wing Begonias
Angelhair Begonias
Calibrachoa
Hyacinth beans
Moonflower and Morning glories
Verbena
Fan flower
A whole assortment of plants that I either cannot remember the name, or just do not know the names!

In my unwatered perennial garden, I was amazed to see how well the purple coneflower did!

I grow annuals in pots on the patio and water them daily. Of course most things do OK...but I've noticed that the Sweet Alyssum seems to LOVE the heat, doing much better than it ever has for me....
Jean

Wouldn't you love these in your garden? These are not mine.... Sigh....but I truly wish. Maybe I'll pick a few to plant next year. Have to figure out where. :-P

Some of my mums started to bloom this week.

Pitim - If I hear of any plant theft at Millenium Park, I'm going to turn you over to the police! Hee hee.

motria, :-D I picked up a broken branch of Eryngium off the ground the other day and asked one of the guards if I could have it, she said no and that my picking up the branch must have been recorded on the cameras anyway! Oowwey. Talking about caught in the act. :-P

They are probably watching me like a hawk now, since I walk through the park almost every morning :-) and spend at least an hour several times taking picures.

Pitim - Oh, no! It's worse than I thought! LOL. Well, since the authorities already know you, I suppose there's no need for me to phone in a tip to the police. ;-)