WHAT'S LOOKING GOOD IN JULY 2018

Ailanthus altissima "Tree of Heaven"
Just finished repotting this tree..I was given it by our friends in Yorkshire as a small runner in 2016 and my how its grown...Gotta keep this one contained otherwise it will send runners out all over the garden...

 

Beautiful @shiney is that verbascum a wild one? Along time ago i had one appear in the garden from nowhere.

 

Lovely pictures Tetters. Is that Phlox Blue Paradise or Blue Boy?

 

Stags horn. Yes it's very invasive, next door has got one but it came from their nextdoor neaghbour. We have suckers coming up in our garden all the time.
Just looked it up to see if it was the same and it is. If you cut it,it stinks.

 

Stags Horn to me @Logan would be a different plant Rhus typhina...but yes its invasive not massively but you just dont know where the suckers will appear..this was one such sucker (still in the same garden as the parent tree) but approx 12 feet away from the main trunk. I love it though and will keep it in a container always.

 

Sorry @Logan , two different trees .

 

Logan, will do but he's slightly mucky at moment. Wet from beach then he decided to dig in the garden. Took him into town earlier and everybody wanted to touch him; took me ages
It will be a walk in the woods later ...beach will simply be too hot in the afternoon

Stag horn...rhus typhina....is not really a tree for anyone's garden unless he/ she is warned beforehand about its suckering propensities. Locally, one tree has suckered throughout the garden....hasnt helped that its in grass and the mowing has simply intensified its habit. I was lucky, when I first got into gardening I planted one but was soon warned how it would behave; it was removed inside a few weeks

 

Sorry all, i was looking at the wrong one.

 

No worries @Logan..I wouldn't have known either unless someone pointed it out..for me I'm always learning...lol

 

Although this tree is not Sumac, (staghorn, rhus) I believe that it is referred to as "stinking Sumac" in America, where it is indeed a bit of a thug. Evidently the crushed crushed leaves smell a bit like cat pee

 

Cat wee is the new must-have scent !

 

Rose Generous Gardener such a beautiful rose, starts off pink and fades to white

Clematis super nova really got going now

adopted rose from next door, Dorothy Perkins from what my mum said when it was planted

Pelargonium in GH

Going to have to retake this pic when the Helenium in full flower. Ligularia Little rocket the star at the moment

Rose paul Scarlet , looks great when coming upto the house


I forgot to take a pic when the rose was flowering shame, campanula pritchards variety is very small this year


Helenium M Beauty

Ligularia Przewalskii - monarda Squaw


What not looking good in July is my lawn what a mess, never been so dry

 

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Pelargonium in GH

 

Just gorgeous @Perki
Amazing garden