WHAT'S LOOKING GOOD IN JUNE 2018

Salvia Guanajuato and Hordeum Jubatum
(Yep, love Hordeum Jubatum.....several clumps throughout the garden and all for the price of a few seed sown in early spring)

 

Linaria Pink Kisses......the most delicate balance of white and palest pink

 

Free water down my new troughs!

 

Lovely pictures Verdun. Lawn looking great too. Which achillea are you growing I don't have much luck with Achillea they tend to flop, i think my soil must be to rich for them.

 

More grasses.....hey! England thrashing Panama in World Cup.....taken in footie break
Perki, Achillea Moonshine there. Likes good drainage and sun. terracotta does well here too.
This is All Gold Hakon grass

 

Hackonechloa macra aureola here.....several clumps in large pots and, as here, in the ground with Geranium Rozanne

 

Stipa Gigantea at well over 11'

 

Your gardens looking great Perki nice work
@Verdun amazing garden V by far my favorite on here everything in proportion and neat and tidy, you certainly know your stuff and provide much needed information to this forum great work all round .

 

Some astilbes

 

Alstroemeria alongside dahlia Twynings After Eight

 

Hey Martin, nice kind words. Thanks

 

Considering that it is supposed to be a winter blooming species Salvia coerulea is still looking really good...........
Salvia coerulea by longk48, on Flickr

Salvia coerulea by longk48, on Flickr

Pelargonium 'Lord Bute'..........
Pelargonium 'Lord Bute' by longk48, on Flickr

Parodia mamulosa...........
Parodia mamulosa by longk48, on Flickr

Verbascum olypicum is reall stretching its legs now at 2.2metres............
Verbascum olympicum by longk48, on Flickr

Orostachys iwarenge...........
Orostachys iwarenge by longk48, on Flickr

Orostachys iwarenge by longk48, on Flickr

Five years from seed to bloom - Dietes bicolor...........
Dietes bicolor by longk48, on Flickr

 

This is our sorbus at the bottom of the garden.
Over a period of three years, I've managed to straighten it up, by tying a length of clothesline to the trunk and a hook drilled into one of the concrete posts of the back fence. It was leaning forwards and way to the left. (trees do that). It still has a bit of a bend in the trunk, but it's as straight now as I can get it.



The blossom isn't up to much but it has nice red berries.

Three years ago in the Autumn, the naffin' wood pigeons broke a few branches trying to get at the berries. So two years ago I pruned off the berries in the Autumn.

Last year we consequently I believe, got very little blossom and very few berries.

This year it has surpassed itself with a lot of blossom and berries.



I'll just have to hope it can stand the weight of the pigeons.

 

Schizostylis

Salvia roemeriana

Sisyrinchium "Helmswell Sky"

Rue

 

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