What’s looking good in August 2019

Tricyrtis formosana has started to bloom............
Tricyrtis formosana by longk48, on Flickr

Iochroma fuchsioides has started to bloom for the second time this year...........

 

The deepest darkest purple

Scabiosa Black Knight

 

Love your taste in terms of flower colour from what I've seen of your plants @BellaBlue and definitely having that one!

Nick

 

Featuring Calamagrostis Karl Foerster and hackonechloas......in the foreground anemone Wild Swan with just a glimpse of the blue bands on the reverse of the flowers

 

Ferocactus wislizeni, still with last years seed pods.
Interesting fact, if you like cacti, this one's common name is the compass barrel, because it leans to the south or southwest as it ages.
Both of mine have a definite lean in that direction.

Other common name fish hook barrel cactus, I've got the scars to prove that one.

 

It finally flowered for me! And the blasted plant didn't have the proper black 'nose' - Sturt desert Pea. You can see here I am growing it in pure grit and sand (with lashings of growmore and maxicrop)

 

It's gorgeous @CarolineL! I suspect you're the sort of gardener who really enjoys a challenging plant.

Nick

 

Nice one Caroline, its a real challenge that one.

 

Thanks @Nikolaos, @pete. I will not tell you how many years I have been trying to grow this... Strangely this year it grew without an ounce of trouble. Now, can I get seed of the white form?

 

Well not exactly looking good, but seems promising. It appears I've finally got the balance right between moisture and drainage with my Liatris spicata 'Kobold'. Time will tell, I suppose. I feel a tad pathetic posting this considering the amazing posts that preceded mine!

@CarolineL Less a case of "trying to grow" with me dear, more one of trying to get things to survive, I'm afraid! If something has kept going in the garden for 5 years, I consider it a victory!

Nick

 

First time growing this...

Bessera Elegans

Looks pretty enough like this



but; look insde and it's a little stunner



{ Sorry about the photo's, it's a bit windy and I had to peg the flower down with a bit of gravel to get the bottom piccy }

 

That bessera is lovely @KFF ! @Nikolaos That liatris looks like a success to me! And I am obviously not showing you the VAST number of things I fail miserably with - I have killed so many over the 50+ years I have been gardening. As you said in another thread regarding learning lessons - the failures are teaching me something (I think).

 

This not my garden but it is where w had our picnic today. The owners hubby said he's been tending his gardens here for 56 years. He is also an avid orhid grower.