This month, daylilies, hemerocallis fulva, and lantana, lantana species, join the riot of blooms at the Governor’s Palace.
At the Colonial Nursery, opposite Bruton Parish Church, see the unusual Devil’s Claw, harpagophytum procumbens. This South African plant is named for the curious hooked fruit that follows a beautiful cream and purple orchid-like flower. Several types of squash are ripening, such as cymbling, yellow crookneck, and cushaw.
In other gardens, trumpet vine, campsis radicans, and virgin’s bower, clematis virginiana, climb the fences, and swamp rose mallow, hibiscus moscheutos, peeks over them.
August’s generous sun coaxes traditional perennials into flower: Stoke’s aster, stokesia laevis, New England aster, smphyotrichum novae-angliae, and New York aster, ymphyotrichum novi-belgii.
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