What's Looking Good In August 2023

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    Wet Summer flowers :biggrin:

    Rudbeckia ...

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    Rose 'Picadilly' ...

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    Hardy Fuchsia 'Margaret' ...

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    Fuchsia 'Miss California' ...

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    Gasteria flowers ...

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    White Platycodon ...

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    Blue Platycodon ...

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    Clematis seed heads ...

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    Red and white (Tuberous Begonia and Begonia semperflorens, and Fuchsia 'Anabel') ...

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    Cotoneaster berries forming ...

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        @Logan What is this please?
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        ... and what is the flower under the Fucshia?
        I know the Agapanthus. :heehee:
         
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          Front of House Patio, the only place for colour in the heat ...
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          The Valotta (Scarborough Lily) now opening its buds ...
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            @Victoria the first one is Verbena Bonariensis and under the fuchsia is Snapdragons Cherry twist.
            Here's another pic of the snapdragons
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              Mine didn't look like that. Why is it on a stick?
              That Snapdragon is gorgeous.
               
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                Buddleja 'Sugar Plum'

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                  Lots of beautiful flower pics, guys! :dbgrtmb:
                   
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                    Where we sit out front facing East and the Iochroma/Plumbago. We call it The Sandbar as the Sand Garden for the cats is between the Iochroma/Plumbago and The Jacaranda, Viburnum/Tecomaria and Tecoma stans.
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                    The Sand Garden ...
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                      A few from where I sit ...
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                        That's what VB's are like Vicky......there are several Verbenas ....without the B :heehee: perhaps that's what you have.

                        Here's some of ours..we have it everywhere. 20230709_193930~2.jpg


                        They grow up to 1:5 meters tall.


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                          Really beautiful Vicky, very tranquil looking.:imphrt:
                           
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                            A couple more new Dahlias, a bit bedraggled looking .

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                              Yes, that is more what mine was like Upsy ... but it didn't 'do it' for me so I got rid of it and put Salvia coccinea 'Texas Sage' in its place. :smile:
                               
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