{"id":800,"date":"2009-07-11T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-11T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/2009\/07\/the-july-garden.html"},"modified":"2026-01-28T15:23:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T20:23:19","slug":"the-july-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/2009\/07\/the-july-garden.html","title":{"rendered":"The July Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe July flower garden here at Seven Oaks is hot, hot, hot – brimming with eye popping oranges, yellows and golds while temperatures soar. I seem to have planted midsummer blooming perennials that are just saturated with color. It’s a total accident. I have about as much garden design instinct as I do the ability to do calculus (that is: zero ability). The weeds are taking over, but I hope to get out in the evenings and make a dent in them later this week.<\/p>\n

My favorite flowers blooming now are the Echinacea – coneflower. I bought seeds in 2007, a kit from Park Seeds. I’m always buying kits. I was told that coneflower is difficult to start from seed. Maybe, maybe not. These seem to love it here in the bright full sun garden that gets hot direct sun all day long.<\/p>\n

The kit included purple, Echinacea “White Swan” and a golden color. Now they are all blooming…just stunning clusters of them in the little island garden in the middle of the lawn. The birds love them. They land on them as they swoop over the lawn, and I think they are enjoying the seeds too.<\/p>\n

Before temperatures soar, enjoy these hot flower colors in the July garden here in southern Virginia!<\/p>\n

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The July flower garden here at Seven Oaks is hot, hot, hot – brimming with eye popping oranges, yellows and golds while temperatures soar. I seem to have planted midsummer blooming perennials that are just saturated with color. It’s a total accident. I have about as much garden design instinct as I do the ability…<\/p>\n

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