What's Looking Good In June 2024

I've got lots of Hakonechloa aureola in my garden @Butterfly6. You're right about the colour changes depending on location. One of mine actually developed purple edges last summer and I've since read that there's a variety called H. Sunflare which it might have decide to become during a dry spell! It's gone back to the original colour this year. I think you'll get used to the new colours, particularly on a dark dismal day! You may find that the ones that are now in sun may need watering during dry spells until they get used to their new tropical home!

 

My daughter took one look at this kalmia ‘Ginkona’ and said it looked like an iced gems plant!

 

Yes @Plantminded , I’ve think you might be right. I decided this morning to pause any further moves. I had the Hakonechloa either side of a path so there was quite a lot of it. I’ve relocated all the plants from one side and was thinking this morning that with less it seems better. It’s also very dull and grey this morning and it does add a splash of sunshine. The sun is due out later so I can see if it might be a temporary reprieve.

Am very pleased with where the relocated ones have gone though, they are now adding sunshine under a large Viburnum opulus

 

I have to catch up here with the changes you made @Butterfly6 . I love relocating plants

In April/May and in June is always a day I take a lot of images to keep records what comes up and what has survived. This morning was such day and I had combine some images otherwise I would blow up the server. I need a second entry to show the rest.

The first Malteser Cross flower. I bought that plant last year from a NT visit here in Wiltshire. I then ordered new seeds and have planted 4 other plants.
What a lovely red.



All foxgloves are grown from seeds. The Achillea underneath was bought last year.



I bought 2 Foxtail lilies in Chepstow in 2020. The orange ones is always a month earlier than the white one. The Linaria on the right is the 4th generation of a Linaria I bought at Kiftsgate in 2021.



The Verbascums start now to show off. The middle one, Maiden Snow, is 2 meters high.



OH wanted to have a Wisteria. It's a Chinese version and I can see trouble ahead...



I bought this Spiraea Big Bang at the Rare Plant Fair in 2022. It almost burned in June 2022 during the first heatwaves with 35c. I moved it in September 2022 to the fence where it's in the shade from 1PM on.



I grew Gaura Bride from seeds in 2020, but removed the plants due to changes in 2022. I missed it so much that I grew 2 new one from seeds that both develop well.
The Salvias on the right were under huge attack in May, but survived finally. The shorter one with darker blue is "East Friesland". I bought the left one at Buscot Park.



I discovered Cerinthe two years ago, and have always a few in the garden. The white Delphinium in the back started its life as blue version last year. We used to have a white one since 2016 which was killed by slugs in winter 2022/2023. I was a bit disappointed that the Giant mixed bought at Bampton Garden Centre had given me a blue version. But one year later, it remembered where it came from :-)






I bought this Salvia as replacement for the Caradonna that didn't survive my "moving plants around". It will remain in that place.



The Verbascum flowers really lovely.



This is the wildflower department in front of the tomato plant. Along the fence are the Ox-Eye daisies that I had grown from seeds last year. There is no chance that they can spread into the beds as there is concrete between them.

 

Part II

We will have so many blackberries, that I will probably have to share them with neighbours. That row is 4 meters long and what you see is just 30cm of it. I can confirm that we never had so many potential berries.



Both tomato plants from the farm shop in Cirencester look so strong, I will never again bother me with growing tomatoes from seeds.



On the left, I grew Wild Geraniums mixed from seeds in Autumn 2021. Therefore I can't give a name for this beauty. On the right is a Rozanne.



On the left is the Deutzia x hybrida magicien, and on the right Deutzia "Strawberry Fields".



On the left, I grew the Reseda odorata grandiflora from seeds but it's leggy. The Bleeding Hearts on the right are still flowering.



For some reason, my camera can't get a sharp image from the dark Astrantia and so I have to use the wither one.



Finally, an impression of known plants.

 

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June started with some lovely flowers.

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Looks lovely @simone_in_wiltshire , my plants are well used to been moved around although I don’t do that quite as much now as in the first few (more like 5-6!) years.

I wouldn’t be too complacent about your ox-eye daisies, if they are the simple species vulgare they will seed around quite happily. They self seed like mad here but luckily I love them, having said that we have far fewer this year than usual. I had quite a cull last year and I think the very wet autumn-winter stopped some of the self-seeding as well. Very easy to recognise and relocate or remove if not wanted.

Love your salvias, unfortunately they don’t survive overwinter here as our soil is too heavy and I haven’t the patience to be always raising cuttings as replacements.

 

Astrantia! Such a detailed flower. This one is over 20 yrs old and in a very dry spot with a lot of shade from things around it. In spite of this, it seems to manage, whereas ones in more favourable locations have been much shorted lived. Go figure!

 

Stunning!
Only started really looking at flower plant this year and bought Astrantia "sparkling stars" 2L pot and ouch some cost! Like it so much , bought more white versions, but these were on 9cm pots and unlikely to do much this year I think. Hopefully they will turn out like that beauty @ViewAhead .

 

My Astrantia took 3 years before they established and are now flowering well every year.

 

Will be worth the wait!

 

Imperata rubra and Thunbergia in evening sun.

 

Good to see your updates after your holiday @simone_in_wiltshire, fantastic detail and colours!

 

That Astrantia's a gem @ViewAhead!

 

Another evening photo, Salvias, Erigeron, Panicum, Phormium and Catalpa.