Welcome to Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day for June 2026.
Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, I think we’ve made a nice transition from spring to summer. We’ve had plenty of rain and some nice warmer days too.
Though some of the spring flowers remain, including this yellow snapdragon being explored thoroughly be a bee, most of them have faded away. Of course, I’m still letting violas continue to grow wherever they find themselves, or in some cases, wherever I planted them this spring. I like them to go as long as possible so they’ll self-sow a bit!
Elsewhere in the garden, summer flowers are taking off. Here are a few that caught my eye Saturday late afternoon.
Many of the hydrangeas are starting to bloom, including this lovely one on the edge of Plopper’s Field, where I plop in flowers wherever there’s a gap.
I apologize for not know which one it is, but it was sent to me by Proven Winners. It’s a keeper, as are most of their hydrangea shrubs. (I just wish I’d kept track of them all!)
Also in Plopper’s Field, this bee balm, Monarda sp. is looking quite nice for summer!
The bees like it, and so do I. (Yes, that is fading bulb foliage that I need to clean up. You aren’t supposed to be looking at that. Eyes back on the flowers, please!)
I’m quite happy to see hollyhocks blooming in the flower bed on the edge of The Vegetable Garden Cathedral!
I started these from seed in the winter of ’24-’25 when I winter-sowed them. I planted them out last year and now look at them! (Your kindness in not mentioning the weeds is greatly appreciated!)
I put a note on Substack that “the rose claims June as her own,” so I better show a rose on this post featuring June flowers!
This rose, variety unknown, which is a variety I grow a lot of in my garden, will have blooms on it all summer long, well into fall. (Yes, I see that leaf of a Virginia creeper seedling. Yes, I will pull it out soon, you need not remind me!)
Sometimes self-sown is the best sown, as shown by this verbena, which is seedlings from Verbena bonariensis ‘Vanity.’
It’s an All-America Selection and they sent me the seeds a few years ago. The pollinators will be all over these flowers well up into fall. (I’ve also got some seedlings of it out by my mailbox, but they aren’t quite as far along.)
This is one of many daylilies starting to bloom.
I like these spider-types, or maybe it is an “unusual form” type. Regardless of what type, it is one of my favorite types of daylilies.
I could show more flowers, as there are many more out there, but I’ll end this round up of June flowers with the first of the coneflowers.
These coneflowers are in the Pink Garden next to the garage. The only qualification a perennial needs to have for me to plant it in that bed is—you guessed it—that it have pink flowers.
And that’s my round up of flowers blooming in my garden for Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day that takes place on our around the 15th of each month. Would you like to see what was blooming in my garden on past bloom days. Here’s the list by date.
2007 – Ambition Carol listed every flower blooming in the garden
2008 – Once again, I listed every flower blooming. I didn’t do that every year!
2009 – Kind of the same as this year, but a walk down memory lane with the purple bench, long gone now.
2010 – An exciting year because the night-blooming cereus bloomed!
2011 – I see some blooms I don’t have anymore, but otherwise, not much has changed.
2012 – This one featured some flowers that I don’t have any more.
2013 – I noticed some flowers I don’t have any more. Gardens do change!
2014 – Based on the ditch lilies, we weren’t as far along as this year.
2015 – I showed some borage in this one, and it seems to be missing from my garden this year.
2016 – I think I have better flowers now, but these aren’t too bad.
2017 – I feel like this was about the same as this year, but I’m missing that one clematis. Need to go look for it.
2018 – Maybe not as far along?
2019 – Oh, the squash were blooming. Not so this year!
2020 – I featured lots of Clematis for some reason
2021 – Much the same as this year.
2022 – Ditto this year but I grew sweet peas and what happened to my Asclepia?
2023 – I see some flowers that shows we were further along in 2023 as compared to this year?
2024 – I see some flowers blooming in this year that didn’t catch my eye today, so I need to go for another walk around the garden!
2025 – About the same as this year, but the Spigelia were in full bloom and this year they have faded already.
Kidding about you checking all those out. That list is for me for future reference as I wind up this last year of Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day.
Care to join us? It’s easy to do. Just post on your blog or wherever you share on line (Substack, Instagram, Facebook, even TikTok) about what’s blooming in your garden in or around the 15th of the month, then return here and leave a comment with a link for how we can get to you.
And remember the inspiration for this long-running internet meme:
“We can have flowers nearly every month of the year.” ~ Elizabeth Lawrence
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