WHAT'S LOOKING GOOD IN JUNE 2018

@Tetters Snap! campanula pink octopus





The rabbits cut these down for us! Fortunately we have loads of them and they seem to keep away from other things.


Some of the time these are totally full of beetles


These are not beetles




@strongylodon after the disastrous winter stripping of our Saphora the leaves have regrown and we're into a second, albeit not profuse, blooming


The nodding grasses were popular at our Open Garden and anyone who bought them was given a warning about their rampant proclivities. They're brilliant for flower arranging. The start off very white but were beginning to go over by the time I took this picture.


The Veronicastrum is just starting to gets its flowering head on


Orange horned poppy


Some of you PM'd me and asked why I wasn't posting pictures. I've been away and, also, my computer has been in hospital for a few weeks but is recovering well.

 

@wiseowl we can no longer remember the name, or type, of this rose. It's single petalled, highly scented, each flower doesn't last much more than a day or so but gets replaced throughout the whole of the summer. It has very big hips and the stems are covered in thousands of thorns. I'll take a photo again when they open but these were taken early morning.




Campanula lactiflora grows very profusely but needs a lot of support as it grows up to 5ft and the weight is in the mass of flower at the top. These were lying on the ground and they have only just been tied up so will fill out more in a few days.








Mallow Red Rum




Hydrangea Annabelle is only just whitening up and each flower head is less than half the size they will grow to.

 

Verbascum chaixii grows wild in our veg plot (literally, hundreds of them) and they attract the pollinators






Not a normal shot for this topic but these Poplars are where our Woodpeckers live. We have a row of them but the gap is because we had to have one taken down. Monet wouldn't have approved


Part of our wild area


A couple of shots from our hanging baskets




Climbing on a Pergola

 

@KFF this is always confusing as both are uprights but both of them prefer to flop down under the weight of the flowers. They are very difficult to tell apart, leaves are slightly different, and the RHS puts the maximum height for both at .5 - 1m. Ours tends to be much closer to 2m and always at least 1.5m. Ours, also, doesn't fit the colour description as they are nearer a pale blue