The Billings region is currently 2 inches above normal for rainfall end of July. Our high desert "rainy" season usually ends mid-June, but it has continued well into summer this year.
We have observed some spectacular skies--thrilling and frightening at the same time. The black cloud picture posted today sent me right to the perennial beds with my camera--was this my last chance for perennial pictures this season? Mercifully the "weather" passed us to the north and no hail damaged was reported.
Two days earlier our "tropical" storm of the day produced raging waters down our streets. This kind of flash flooding typically happens about once every 5 years, but we have had it almost weekly this summer.
This post will celebrate the perennial garden blooms--the great beneficiaries of the rains. All easy to grow and maintain in our wildly unpredictable climate!
Perennial plants illustrated:
Grapes are "Beta" variety. Similar to red Concords which ripen end of July. My jelly grape.
Shasta Daisy Chrysanthemum maximum and Purple Coneflower. Echinacea purpurea
Gloriosa Daisies. Rudbeckia hirta (bright yellow)
"Blanket" flowers. Gaillardia grandiflora (red and yellow) Easy re-seeders.
Wine red day lily. Hemerocallis liliaceae
Pin Cushion Flower (blue.) Scabiosa Dipsaceae
Russian sage with gloriosa daisies. Perovskia atriplicifolia. Labiatae
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