What's looking good in July 2012

a good informal garden can require as much planning as a formal one, just in a different way, depends what you want to achive. succession of flowering for example. or create a setting-just imagine a felled tree trunk, half rotted, with all sorts of foxgloves and ferns around or a boggy wildflower lawn with himalayan primulas and cuckoo flower and some figworth here and there). To make it more complicated -combine the setting and the succession thing. What will your tree trunk look like after all the foxgloves have expired. What will it look like in early spring. Planning...

 

A couple of things today
The first young Helenium . The bees love this when it gets a bit bigger

The buddleia full to the top with plumes now

 

This is my first ever flower on a seed grown Fuchsia.................



It's Fuchsia procumbens.

 

That's quite a strange flower LongK.

 

It certainly is! When it's in full bloom they look great though.

 

yea, send some pics in full bloom!!

 

Well done Longk.

 

This is definitely looking good to me - I've found flower buds forming on my Tricyrtis ishiana!



My first year with this and it has a reputation (depending upon your source) of being a little tricky so I'm rather pleased!

 

Thanks!
It craves shade and moisture in a free draining soil, so it is planted (in the pot still) under this thirsty Willow............


I do have to remember to water it though.

Very late this year, Salvia "Black and Blue" is finally blooming.................

 

I love that black n blue longk..got to get one
I posted on the july 2011 thread last night as im a gorp ! so heres are a few diff flowers i took today....
cosmos sensation mix

wendys beauty fuchsia

My lavender

Yellow cone flower and queens lace

Alfred carriere(which looks a lot different than the pic i posted yest)

 

I wondered why there were 2 JULY threads
This has not been my greatest growing from seed year . I lost all my salvias and thunbergias due to rust plus a few other poor results.....still always next year !
A couple of new bedding plants for me , the first was suggested by Sheal to go in a shady spot Mimulus Mystic , I got 4 lovely shades. The White which is actually more Ivory is our favourite . Thanks Sheal
Second was a "miniature" Marigold , or so I thought , Starfire - 2 filled a container, not bad for £0.01 a seed ! Slugs love them though.

Mimulus x hybridus 'Mystic Mixed' F1 Hybrid


Tagetes Tenuifolia 'Starfire'