What's Looking Good In June 2013

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  1. shiney

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    Brilliant colour ARMANDII :dbgrtmb:
     
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      silu gardening easy...hmmm

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      Fabulous photos Armandii, the rose and peonies are stunning, I have that slightly green about the gills feeling!
       
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        Actually, silu, that's exactly how I feel when I see pics of your plants.:dunno::snork:
         
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          Penstemon smallii...................
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          A very well behaved small Penstemon..................
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          I have some seed left for this if anyone is interested.
           
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            I tend to have trouble getting white flowers to show up properly when it's bright out. So I decided to try when it was evening or drizzling and managed to get these shots. Although the first shot was in the sun.

            They're white or whitish! :heehee:

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              Some more whitish flowers :blue thumb:. We have a load of others but they aren't quite in bloom yet. Why didn't I think of having a white flower bed? :doh:

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                Pretty penstemon Longk........
                Wow lovely whites Shiney :dbgrtmb:, what is the second picture please.
                 
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                  "Shiney's Sissinghurst" perhaps? :)

                  We've gone for Blue and White. A Delphinium jutting up behind the frothy Crambe cordifolia looks lovely this morning.

                  This is the first year, since we started building the garden (7 years ago, albeit the relevant bits were not started then) that I have been able to walk round the garden each morning and see something that wasn't there yesterday. Its a very pleasing feeling.
                   
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                    Love this little campanula relative only thing is it never likes where I plant it :scratch:, much preferring to self seed itself between the cracks in the block paving, oh well the drive looks colourful :heehee:
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                    Scutellaria 'Zhongdianensis' grown from RHS seed although can't find out much about it except that its probably misnamed and is more likely to be 'Altissima' , whatever it is I like it :biggrin:
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                    Delphinium 'Tall Black Knight' still upright after the wind :yay:
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                      My favourite perennial Kristen doesn't it smell lovely :hapydancsmil:
                       
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                      What's this one please Shiney? It's lovely :wub2:

                      Philadelphus Virginal

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                      Single bloom from Peony Sarah Bernhardt which I put in a plastic pot last year (gonna find it somewhere to go for next year)

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                        Impatiens glandulifera "Red Wine"......................
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                          Spruce Glad to be back .....

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                          Hi longk

                          This is the one my bees love and has taken over the 5 acre water meadow where I keep them so thats a named variety ?? you have

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                            Things are moving fast in the borders now with all the warmth and humidity:hapfeet:
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                              Not the best place for I.glandulifera!!!!
                              I bought the seeds as a named variety - they supposedly isolated the best strain for the colour. But at 99p a packet I'm not disappointed by it.
                               
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