A Forgotten Bloom Day

Not only did I neglect to take pictures of flowers, I forgot about Bloom Day altogether. I was distracted. We can just look at some random pictures and hope that some flowers show up.

Here, right in the center of the picture, you can see the difference between two cultivars of Yucca filamentosa. 'Color Guard' has yellow in the middle of the leaf blade. 'Bright Edge' has the yellow on the margins.

Here is a nice flower, Downy Skullcap, Scutellaria incana. I have high hopes this native will self sow and spread itself about. 

The Black Eyed Susan, Rudbeckia fulgida has done that quite well.

Joe Pye Weed whose botanical name keeps changing has been another good competitor and self sower in the Tall Flower Meadow. 

It won't be long now. The end of August into late September is when the Tall Flower Meadow comes into massive full on bloom.*

* Weathers depending.

Elsewhere, someone has begun dining in this year's winter squash department in the dung piles. All the left over seedlings were planted here after the hail storm smashed and stunted the ones in the roadside vegetable garden. They are doing much better and setting more fruits in the dung piles. Then something decided it was time to eat them. I plan to find out who. If I am lucky I'll get a good shot of some damn varmint with a mouth full of hot pepper on tender squash leaves.

So it goes for a forgotten Bloom Day in the Land of the Crooked Shed, hot pepper water and voodoo lilies.