Welcome to Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day for August 2011!
Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 5b garden in central Indiana, the blooms are set against a backdrop created by the driest July in recorded history and a stretch of days with high temperatures that were 90 F and above for over three weeks, besting a record set in the dust bowl year of 1936.
I ventured out into the garden early Sunday
