What's looking good in August 2012

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  1. Jenny namaste

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    All very beautiful Armandii, I love that borage,
     
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    Great photos everyone.:dbgrtmb: I love all the colour.


    ARMANDII, your Hydrangea Annabelle has much darker leaves than ours.
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    This bloom is 17" across
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    A bush campanula (can't remember variety) with Lysimachia pupurea behind
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    Inula barbata (I think)
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    Agapanthus and phlox
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    Caribbean Fantasy
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      I've been widening part of one of our front borders and here are few views of it

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      The Nandine is getting ready to open and seems to have enjoyed this year as it has lots of flowering heads
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      and this potentilla is gradually coming into full flower - a very rewarding plant because it flowers for a long time and the leaves look good all winter.
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        I'm growing Annabelle, but also Incrediball(sp?) which is supposedly "bigger" - I'll let you know if it can even hold its heads up, esp. after rain, in a year or two's time :)#

        Catchy name, so I "couldn't-afford-not-to-have-it" ... I'm so weak!
         
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        Mr Shiney,
        being a bit pedantic here - are you widening or deepening your border?
        Jenny
         
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        Rain does tend to make it droop so we run twine around the outside. The main stems are soft as it gets cut to the ground each year.

        I'll be interested in your Incrediball :heehee:
         
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        Nothing wrong with being a pedant :biggrin:. I'm one step down from that - a peasant :snork:.

        I'm widening it - from front to back. Otherwise I would be lengthening it. :heehee:

        If I was deepening it I would be digging more :lunapic 130165696578242 5:.

        What a wonderful language we have! :dbgrtmb:
         
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          Loved every word of that sir,:love30:
           
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          Arise, Lady Jenny, :). Thou art a Gentlelady,:paladin: . No soul in the Queendom need bend the knee (or two knees) to me.
           
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            Maybe I like it my lord,
            whooops - did I just say that???
             
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            Said Queen Isabella of Spain
            I like it just now and again ...
            But by "now and again"
            I mean "now" and "again and again" :)
             
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              Haven't quite grasped that, can you explain how you do that pls?
               
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              As the plant has multiple stems we run twine, or string, around the outside of the stems and tie it in a circle around them. As the flower heads are all around the plant they pull their stems in different directions and, therefore, support each other.
               
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