interesting St. Louis County home flower garden including deck garden pots 7/25/22
Channel: John Edwards
Date: 2022-07-30

This is the state of our flowers in our backyard in Manchester, St. Louis County, Missouri on July 25, 2022, and for us this is our biggest and most successful effort to date.  Given the weather, I am amazed at how good they actually look because on this date, July 25, 2022, this is after many days of 100 degree weather and spotty, inconsistent and frequently no rain and so lots of watering by us was required. Many varieties of flowers are shown, some of them not flowering at the moment because we wanted to stagger the flowering so something would always be blooming.  We begin with Lantanas, then yellow Melampodium, English lavender, yellow dahlias, lilies, Celosia, white Vinca, Grosso Lavender (notwithstanding the video miscalling it Spanish Lavender), rosemary, Coleus, pink zinnias, an unidentified purple houseplant (more on that below), yellow zinnias, different Celosia, Gaura, Snapdragons, sweet Alyssum, white Begonias, marigolds, and Salvias on the deck in pots. Down in 2 lower real soil parts, there are Bee balm flowers, agastache (augustashi some spell), cat mint, hostas, blanket flower, primrose, a Japanese fern, ajuga, a really tall nice Holly Hawk, Coral Bells, another blanket flower, Golden Creeping Jenny, 2 hydrangeas, Astilbe (also known as False Goat's Beard, a peony and Climbing Clematis.  

More on the unnamed purple house plant on the deck--it's actually a Wandering Tradescantia Zebrina plant also known as Inchplant or spiderwort and frequently commonly referred to as "wandering Jew," which people are trying to change to "wandering dude," which I definitely think would be much better. Hopefully, this will be informative or at least enjoyable. We plan to do even more next year. Any and all comments or questions are invited.