Garden Bloggers Bloom Day June 2025 #ShadowshotSunday

Today is another "two memes for the price is one" day.  It's the 15th of the month and time for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day, hosted by Carol at May Dreams Gardens.  

On the 15th of each month, gardeners show what is blooming in or around their houses.  

It is also Shadowshot Sunday (see below), hosted by Lisa at Lisa's Garden Adventure (also a Garden Bloggers Bloom Day participant,. But the current photos don't have shadows because we are into week #30 of our precipitation-every-weekend event.  The last time it didn't rain or snow on a weekend was back in mid-November.  I was so hoping that this weekend would be the weekend it stopped, but no such luck.

So I found a photo from earlier this month - see the last photo below. 

In my zone 6a garden, we are in a bit of a lull.  But we still have some pretty flowers.  I also had some failures.  Only one of my columbine plants came up and it's decided not to bloom this year.  But I have other flowers to show you today.

Today, I am starting out with a flower I haven't seen in years.  I think this is a lily.  For several years now, they've come up, only to have the foliage eaten by small red bugs.  Last year, we decided to really keep on top of things with neem oil spray, and this year we were rewarded.  There are actually two plants, and both are blooming.  The strange thing is, I can't even remember buying them.

Yellow corydalis, Pseudofumaria lutea,   which seems to grow wild in my shady back yard.  

Formerly Allium bulgaricum, now (I think) Nectaroscordum siculum, or Sicilian Honey Garlic. 

Siberian columbine meadow-rue (Thalictrum aquilegiifolium) 

I've cut way back on hanging baskets this year, only having three.  This year it's just too much of a burden.  I did make up this hanging basket with sunpatiens.

Purchased basket with petunias.  Can you have two much pink, violet, or purple?

This catmint says "of course you can't".

 

Meanwhile, indoors, two of my three African violets are blooming.  This one hasn't bloomed in a while.

 

Sadly, my two rhododendrons have finished blooming, but for Shadowshot Sunday, here is one of them from around a week ago.

And that's about it for today.  Why not go visit other participants in Garden Bloggers Bloom Day and Shadowshot Sunday or, better yet, show us some of your shadows or flowers?  Or both?

Finally, if it is Father's Day where you live, today is the day to honor your father, or a father figure in your life.