What's Looking Good In July 2013

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  1. longk

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    Eucomis autumnalis....................
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    Like all my Eucomis this year it's struggling..................
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      Earlier on I put up pictures of a lot of white flowers in the garden. I'm not as organised as Kristen :) so don't have a themed bed or area. They're just stuck anywhere around the garden.

      Here are some more white ones. We have a variety of Hebes - different heights, leaf shape and leaf size. Most of the whites seem to be flowering now.

      This is our tallest one
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      With a low growing but quite happy one near it
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      Then we have a much more delicate short, variegated, small leaf variety
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        My skill is in excluding Yellow and Pink flowers from photographs I take of plants in my Blue border :heehee:
         
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          Then a couple of different slightly off-white small Hebe varieties
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          Some white allium gigantium
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          And the brilliant white deutzia that we have around the garden
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            This is a bit much Jenny :hate-shocked: much prefer it when its just grey foliage bit of an awkward area wanted something to trail as the ponds in a dip and these do the trick,poor fish think I'll have to get them sunglasses, then of course I've got the flippin mimulus thats seeded everywhere and thats yellow too :hate-shocked:, hubby likes that and won't let me cut it back till its finished flowering, says it looks "natural" where as I think it looks a b****y mess :heehee:
             
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              My Clivia is in full bloom in the house. It's the first time it has since I've owned it. Hopefully Kristen's are doing the same.

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                We have lots of Hostas that also have white flowers. The whites seem to flower before the other colours.
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                This silver variegated euonymous is covered in, literally, thousands of flower clumps - a favourite of the honey bees
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                This salvia Turkistanica isn't really white but it gives a glowing white effect
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                And, of course, the lovely campanula. We have whites and mauves all over the garden. There a clumps of just whites but I prefer them when they are mixed
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                  Still on a whitish theme :heehee:

                  These are spread out in our wilder veggie plot
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                  Whereas these feverfew parthenium are in our 'organised' veggie plot - alongside our beans and courgettes. We have lots of feverfew all round the edge of the plot.
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                  The blackberries are in the wild garden behind the veggies and amongst the fruit trees

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                  There are lots of buttercups, daisies and clover around them
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                  Alongside our back door is the highly frangrant variegated summer jasmine

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                    See!!! Not only an acknowledged plantsman but a highly experienced photographer. :blue thumb: There is no end to your talent! :heehee:
                     
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                      No beginning either !!!!!
                       
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                        Do you know the name? I've got the purple one in the garden ... and forgotten then name.

                        I had one, bought of eBay 2 or 3 years ago, that flowered a month or so back - for the first time - but the three you kindly gave me have not flowered yet. All of them are for a long term project of some massive pots in our fabulous new conservatory ... I say "long term" as the fabulous new conservatory is still on the drawing board and piggy-bank-shaking stage :) - so I'm more keen on bulking them up into a clump, rather than flowering, short term.
                         
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                          Dahlia Topmix
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                          (excuse the aphids, didn't notice them until just now! :redface: I'll have to get the soapy water out tonight.)

                          Campanula & Calendula

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                            Do you know the name? I've got the purple one in the garden ... and forgotten then name.
                            I'm sure he knows the name Kristen, but in case he had a chance to verify it with Mrs Shiney - it's Lychnis Coronaria. I can save and send you some white seed if you wish,
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                              Thanks, but got enough seed projects on the go for the time being ...
                               
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                              Mr Shiney as I have said before I am so taken with your white theme - more often than not when someone is looking for something new for their garden they look for colour and white can be overlooked. But you have shown us just how attractive and fresh looking the white theme can appear.
                              Thank you I will certainly consider when I am looking for something new.
                               
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