What's looking Good In August 2024

What a lot of beautiful gardens.

 

A Campanula Something-or-other, giving a second flush. It's a PITA to keep alive as the slugs adore it, but the flowers are lovely.

 

The pond plants are the only ones not looking parched atm...

Lotus

Iris ensata

Eichhornia

Lobelia cardinalis

Double Lotus

 

Hibiscus syriacus


Eucomis bicolor.


Albizzia, bananas and hibiscus.

 

Hanging Baskets.

 

Thankyou @CarolineL - yes that one's my favourite of the three too

 

I always love seeing the flowers emerging on Ligularia Britt-Marie Crawford, as the decimation of the foliage is always so depressing. The bees love the flowers too


Sweet peas Solway Velvet is getting going well now too

 

Fantastic showing of heleniums, these are on a local grass verge that looks to have been adopted by someone. All sorts of fantastic plants grow there throughout the year.

My neighbour's Red-Hot Pokers. This is the only non-"weed" species growing in their garden. They also favour plastic grass and gravel (just gravel, not a gravel garden).

 

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Jenny namaste

 

Heleniums marching on!

 

Crocosmia "Irish Dawn"


Echinops banaticus


Nasturtium (self seeded)


Acanthus hungaricus

 

These were all Dichroa when I got them.
Hydrangea febrifuga "Cambridge Blue" Yes I know it's pink.

Hydrangea "Long March" from Guizhou in China (species not known)

Hydrangea daimingshanensis "Guiz 48" A dwarfer species from Guizhou.

 

Eryngium planum or Echinops retro??

 

Every time I walk down our stairs I see this through the frosted glass by the front door.





One of Mrs LS's many lovely pots that light up the front of our house.

 

August garden view (looking down the garden)



August garden view (with planks and bean sticks)



All overgrown and in need of tidying ...