What's Looking Good In August 2013

They look smashing

No, that's just depressing. Pretty sure that's an Oriental? ... and thus needs Acid soil, so won't be any good here :( :( :(

You could nip round with some scissors and nip off the anthers ... I'll get my coat

 

Thank you Kristen, my Lilies are quite good this year despite or maybe because of being late. I forgot, you aren't able to grow things which like it very acid, sorry, and yup you are right Casablanca is an Oriental. Mind you, you can grow some amazing Lilies that I can't unless I get the lime sprinkled which never seems that satisfactory. Oh yes I have all the time in the world to go round nipping off anthers of about 160 Lilies!!!!

 

Hi @Grannie Annie

Is the hydrangea "pinky winky " ?

fab photos

Spruce

 

Bomarea hirtella in the greenhouse................


Iocchroma australis are coming back into bloom now that it's cooler again..................


Solanum rantonnetii is a distant cousin of Iochroma....................


Tradescantia purpurea is rather late this year...................


Abutilon x hybridum is starting to get a "leg on" finally.......................


Bessera elegans...................


Gaura.....................


Sollya heterophylla is a sea of blue despite the individual flowers being very small..............

 

What a delicate and pretty little shrub that Sollya heterophylla is Keith,
all very unusual plants that I do not know,
thank you for showing them to me,
Jenny

 

Great close ups A.

A few more.
A young Pittosporum Eugeneoides.


Pelargonium Mrs Pollock.


Perilla Magilla.


Star Gazer.

 

I love Mrs Pollock Strongy,
Jenny

 

Not come across that before. I read that it is a bit more cold hardy than Coleus ... precious few suppliers by the looks of it though?

 

A couple of things looking pretty good today,
Hawkshead and Frank Hedley in a pot

And Clemmie "Polish Spirit" aiming for the skies


Jenny

 

Agapanthus kindly sent to me by Spruce a couple of years ago, flowering for the first time, loving the stripes on this

 

Love the pittosporum Strongy, I'm trying to decide whether to replace two huge specimens I lost during that cold winter, haven't found anything I like as much for evergreen foliage colour, one had a pinky edge to the leaf can't remember the name and found it quite handy for putting in with flower arrangements.

 

Kristen, Perillas only seem to be grown from cuttings I got mine from Ball Colegrave years ago when I was at work but kept it going. I overwintered the small plants on the kitchen window sill as the greenhouse temperature (about 5c) was not enough, more like 10c+. Cuttings freely available!

Simbad, it could have been Pittosporum Garnetti.

 

Will people kindly refrain from putting up gorgeous photos of Agapanthus, every time I see these beauties I go a lot greener than my grass is! It's too cold here in the winter for them to survive, I tried keeping a pot of them in an unheated greenhouse over winter and still that wasn't good enough so it's something I have resigned myself to not growing mores the pity. Oh on 2nd thoughts just keep the lovely photos coming I can at least enjoy them be it 2nd hand!