What's Looking Good in August 2011

Hi Peter
Would love to try some seed of Salvia atrocyanea when ever you have any spare..
Dave

 

The first of the Rudbeckia buds to open



This new dwarf Delphinium (Summer Nights) has settled in well



Stokesia 'Traumerei' (i love these :D )




This area is on my 'top lawn'.
I replaced the lawn with chippings a few months ago because the area gets too baked by the sun and the lawn suffered badly.
The plants are along the top of a dry stone wall, that is one of 2 edges to that area (below it the rock garden and the other edge has Cistus 'Sunset' all along it)



This is a huge mound of Scutellaria, in the rock garden.




This is in the front garden again, looking from my front door down the length of the path - which is central to the garden and divides it in half.

My furry white companion ever present :D

 

Does My Bum Look Big In This ?

 

Simbad and Dave - would be delighted to send you some seed in due time - have sent you both a PM.

 

Louise,....i love the stokesia, I have never seen those before......gorgeous!!

 

Thank you Penny

There are the usual purple flowered ones but it's the white ones which are my favourites.
I've always sent away to a private nursery for them but i've seen the odd one or two in a local garden centre lately so perhaps other people are loving them too !!!
I bought one lately from there, a purple one that's a dwarf - a new one on me so it hopped into my shopping trolley and came home with me :WINK1:

 

I think it would "hop" onto my cart too :yess::WINK1:

 

I like that new Escholzia Mrs. S is trying, very nice

The Thalictrums do well here too (i've got Hewitts Double aswell as the tall one), have you both got the tiny one - T. kusiana ?
It's a minute ground cover version and lovely ! (i'll see if i can find a pic or if i feel like lying on the ground to take new pics :WINK1: )

 

Shiney/Louise - those Scutellarias are lovely. I have only ever grown S. altissima, which is quite sweet but not that showy. What type is that?

 

Lovely pictures Shiney and Louise.
I love that escholzia too.

 

'Inula Racemosa', this one is in its first year a self sown seeding that I did think I'd pulled out last autumn but it seems to like it here, others in the garden are nearer 8ft would need a ladder to photograph them.

 

PeterS, it's Scutellaria suffrutescens ....

Scutellaria 'Texas Rose'

I've had that one, in my picture, in the ground about 5 years now and it's roughly 16" in diameter, gorgeous little plants.

 

I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with roses. Nothing will convince me that the bushes themselves are beautiful. When they produce flowers like this one, however, I forgive them everything. It's 'Evelyn' and it smells delicious. It opens to reveal a little green button at the centre:-

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'Margaret Merril' is still going strong:-

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Evelyn is gorgeous Clare, my roses are covered in buds again, in fact looks like the second flush'll be better than the first, just outside the kitchen window so I can smell them.