This is the best I've ever seen Rosa x odorata 'Mutabilis'. Hydrangea bifida, formerly Deinanthe bifida, across the path from the pond in the Asian Garden, both locations next to the rodgersias that were featured this month (posted in a separate thread). Inula are in bloom now. Booth of these are near the Wharton Glade. I think this is Inula hookeri. And I think this is Inula magnifica. Was it @pmurphy who wondered if Kirengeshoma flowers ever open completely? Flowers are just starting to open on the Kirengeshoma palmata Koreana Group, and I would call this one open. I think the ones that don't open as much are just named Kirengeshoma palmata on Garden Explorer; they have smaller leaves and open a bit later than the Koreana Group.
Here are some photos from July 5. In the food garden, Daucus carota subsp sativus 'Bolero' Filipendula purpurea 'Nana'. I have one of these on my balcony. It had flowers when I bought it two years ago, no flowers at all last year, but two stalks pretty much like this are taking their time opening. It's crazy thirsty on my balcony. I love the leaves, but I should not have bought a plant that either wants water every two days or an even larger pot that it will fill immediately. Notholithocarpus densiflorus, tanoak or tanbark-oak, in the Pacific Slope Garden. It has oak-like "acorns", but its flowers are like those of chestnuts or chinkapins. The first photo is a more impressive-looking individual nearby; others are from a single individual growing too close to another tree to get a good photo. Lonicera involucrata, which I photographed and posted three years ago and then didn't remember at all when I saw it in the Pacific Slope Garden last week, except that I did know it was Lonicera. These two Arbutus menziesii are next to each other in the Pacific Slop Garden, a sort of Mutt and Jeff pair (does anyone remember that comic?). For something completely different, here is Pinus strobus 'Blue Shag', prominently holding forth at the foot of the ramp up to the Pavilion.
