Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day - July 2012

Volunteer sunflower

Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for July 2012.

Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana we are enduring a hot, dry summer. 

Weather record keepers have been busy recording new record high temperatures, record streaks of days over 90 F, and record numbers of consecutive days without any measurable rainfall.  They have also declared that we are now