Bloom Day July 2012, Color Wheel Version

Summer's finally in full swing here in Portland!
Here's a color wheel look at what's blooming at Longview Ranch this month.

Red:  
Crocosmia 'Lucifer'.

Helenium 'Moorheim Beauty'.

Red-orange:  
Crocosmia pottsii 'Culzean Pink'.

Agastache 'Acapulco Orange'.

Phygelius 'Passionate'.

Orange:
Abutilon 'Tangerine'.
Kniphofia 'Timothy'


Yellow-Orange:
Zantedeschia 'Flame'.

Eschscholzia californica

Yellow:
Helichrisum Angustifolium

Coreopsis 'Zagreb.'

Yellow-green: 
Sedum rupestre 'Angelina'.

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Kniphofia species

Green: (cheating a little, since they're just budding up)
Eucomis pallidiflora ssp.pole-evansii

Arctostaphylos x 'Austin Griffiths'. I think/hope this is the beginning of a second bloom for this year.

Blue-green:
Agave titanota (okay, not really a flower, but the perfect blue-green for my purpose.)

Blue:
Salvia 'Black and Blue'

Hyssopus officinalis 'Dwarf Blue'

Blue-violet:
Campanula americana, from our Portland Garden Bloggers Plant Exchange earlier this year (thank you, Ann!)
Eryngium planum 'Jade Frost'.

Violet:
Ophiopogon planiscapus 'Nigrescens'

Lavender species

Red-Violet:
Eucomus comosa 'Sparkling Burgundy'

Cistus x purpureus

Astilbe arendsii 'Glow'

Symphoricarpus albus. The bees are completely focused on this PNW native.

Which leads us to...   

White:
In discussing the plant color wheel, Kym Pokorny says white is often the most dominant color in the garden. I know I have almost as many white-flowered plants in my garden as I do all the other colors put together.

Nandina domestica

 Yucca filamentosa 'Bright Edge'.

Cistus x obtusifolius. This plant just blooms on, month after month.

Digitalis volunteer

Tiny Dianthus noeanus

Huge Acanthus mollis

Trachelospermum jasminoides 'Confederate Cream'

Rosa 'Sally Holmes'

 Along with the green of foliage, white flowers cool down the garden, and serve as the perfect neutral counterpoint to all the intensity of color-wheel blossoms.

For the full spectrum of July flowers, visit Carol at May Dreams Gardens. Happy Bloom Day!