What's looking Good In August 2024

Long stem pelargonium, very good for cutting. This variety is one of my hybrids and I really like the strong, dark stems and large flowers.

Tall phlox, Goliath

Helenium

Cream coloured salvia, grown from seed

Crocosmia Walberton Bright Eyes

Clematis Triomphe

 

I'm glad @shiney that you still have something to look at in your desert of garden. I'm so sorry to see your pictures in the Weather thread, which remind me on my garden in 2022, when I literally could put my arm into such crack. I wondered how my plants still survived from getting just once a month water for an hour (I pretended to be the rain woman).
I have the similar in my garden in one or two places, but by no means to what I had 2022.

As mentioned, the right side of the bigger bed along the greenhouse and where the raised beds are needed a redesign in order to create a new path to take care of the plants from all sides without entering the soil in the beds.
I had taken out the part in the back and prepared it in advance. I went to a garden centre nearby this morning and found two plants which are just to my taste: Perovskia Blue Spire in the background and Helenium Moerheim Beauty in the foreground. And I left enough space between them and the others!



While visiting Avebury Manor Garden, I saw their Perovskia and how it fells over and I came home and had put the support in place before it's too later next year. At Avebury, the Perovskia was covered in bees.

 

Ornithogalum thyrsioides

Glorious brug Grand Marnier (thanks @pete )

 

Clematis 'Minuet'



Passiflora



This Hosta in a pot hasn't been touched by slugs, that's strange because it's in a shady part of my patio ...



Fuchsia 'Delta's Sarah'



Cotoneaster



Heliotrope



Osteospermum



Dianthus

 

Oh Michael, I love that photo, so delicate. I hope you don't mind but I copied it ... just in case I take up painting again. I truly think you should do it as a watercolour. Beautiful.

 

Sempervivum, settling into the alpine trough I replanted a couple of months ago.

 

Thanks @Victoria, I'm pleased you like the photo and I don't mind you copying it at all. Maybe it will inspire you to start painting again

 

Dahlia "Twynings After Eight"

Japanese Anemone

Kniphofia rooperi

Colletia hystrix A mass of scented white flowers, pollinators love this one. Although it needs to be handled with care.

Echinops tienshanicum. Another plant popular with pollinators.

 

Well @Victoria I've copied that photo to my file on 'things to paint', I have an idea for it but for now it's awaiting its turn until sometime during the winter. I have other things I must finish first.

 

This is a new addition which I bought last week to fill a gap. It's Anemone Royal Blanco. It looks like A. Honorine Jobert, but with purple markings on the reverse of some petals, a bit like A. White Swan on much longer stems. I'm hoping it won't lean!

 

Cyrtanthus elatus (Scarborough Lily) blooming ...

 

They're lovely @Victoria, My grandmother had these on her windowsill, she used to give mee some bulbs to grow myself. The one I've got now is what I sent for on line and it's very small at the moment but I'm hoping it will grow to flowering size in a year or two.
I can't get used to their new name and still call them Valotta.

 

Looks like my Queen Elizabeth, which has also gone to 6ft and then some, this year.