Bloomin Hot Out

It's a true Long Island summer, hot and humid. Temps have been in the 90s, but with the high humidity its a real feel temp of low 100s some days.
 Not that I'm complaining...I like it hot!
And some of our blogging friends are experiencing an extended heat wave, not to be believed!
Our hearts are with you guys! We pray for cooling thunder showers to break the wave!

So this week I'm joining in to the Cottage Flora Thursdays link up
and May Dreams Gardens (G.B.B.D)  Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day.

Here's whats blooming in my yard...

This first photo is deceiving, the bloom on this Abutilon is only 1-1 1/2" ,

but its a beauty planted in this next pot.

Nestled between two Hydrangeas is a pot of annuals..Avalon Red Nicotina, Gerber daisy, Banana tree plant and Abutilon - red flowering maple, mature height 2-3 ft. Also in photo, Echinacea and Coreopsis, and in background 'Tidehill' Boxwood.

Next up: Daylilies:

Hydrangeas that are in part shade are not suffering, but the full sun day ones ( except for Annabelle) are weepy because of the high temps.

    'Annabelle' hydrangea is always a delight - it always looks so fresh during the hot summer days                     

                     A single bloom is huge! although this is really a grouping of tiny blooms

                                                 Buddelia (Butterfly bush) is doing its job

                          I have shown this bird house in  a past post, but now its really blooming,
                                                 so I'll show it again, you don't mind- do you?

                                                   Oh! I think a fat bird is leaning to the right!

                 I'm so excited I could spit! Wisteria is throwing blooms a second time -Yahoo!!

                                    Echinaceas bring the Goldfinches, bees, butterflys and hummingbirds

     Echinaceas, the first photo's flower has petals set more closely together, not sure if these are two different
           cone flowers or they are just growing that way. They are growing in different gardens in the yard.

                                                             White Echinacea - Maybe 'Alba' ?

                                               Phlox paniculata 'David', grows to 40" tall, zones 4-8

               'Provence' lavender is one of the lavenders I grow. I also love 'Hidcote' and 'Munstead'.

                               This is the cultivar most used in France for oils and perfumes.

I have encircled a Hydrangea Piniculata tree form with 12 or so lavender plants. The bees become drunk with nectar and just hang so perfectly still on the lavender wands, that you can pet them.

I will  post a photo when the tree comes into bloom.

I'll end with quirky looking Black Eyed Susans just coming into bloom

So that't whats bloomin in my yard...
What's blooming where you are?
Hope everyone is staying cool!