What's looking good in July 2012

Nope!!!

Totally envious of your Aconitum! Mine are sulking since the house move
I do have a very nice climbing one coming along from seed for next year though..........

 

Strongylodon, I loved your chocolate cosoms and the wall basket arrangement! Would begonias take rain easily, don't their leaves get damaged?
Jenny's succulent basket also looks graphically expressive!
ARMANDII, your yellow bell-shaped clematis and lavender...

Longk, I have a fuchsia propagated from cutting just about to flower. It has to be a f. 'thalia', but I've never grown them so far. So I'll wait and see. And I have a dicentra peregrina, with very similarly shaped leaves and flowers, which I acquired early this spring. It performed a bit feebly this season, but I hope the best is yet to come. Your 'Burning Heart' variety looks great!

Variegated rhododendron, hostas and hakonechloa (and strawberry leaves intruding into the scene):


Rudbeckias and daisies:


Rose on the retaining wall:



Hydrangea annabelle 'Invincible spirit' has given me its first flowers:


Rose 'Mimi Eden'... not very strong in the shady location.



Berberis and 'Crimson Pirate' daylily

 

All lovely Angelina. Especially the Hydrangea Annabelle

 

So pretty, Armandii.

 

Seems to be a good year for Hollyhocks here.
I have several self-seeded ones dotted around the garden, I simply scatter the seeds around when I'm cutting down in the autumn and wait to see what appears.
An interesting variety of colours this year.

 

And no evidence of rust? In this weather ???
Look really good, healthy , happy plants,

 

Surprisingly enough Jenny, no sign of rust yet.
When we first moved here (24 years ago) I planted a few fancy looking Hollyhocks and several did succumb to rust.
Over the next 2 or 3 years, I would grab a good handful of seeds whenever I saw a healthy looking Hollyhock in someone else's garden and scatter them around at home.
Now I just scatter the seeds from the best looking plants each year and I have to say rust doesn't seem to be much of a problem now.
Maybe in doing so, I've produced a few strains which have good rust resistance.

 

Is there a diff between spinos and mollis armandii?? pm ya address il post you the whitewater,i only planted 2,saved 1 for you your garden seems to love plants so you will prob have more success than me

 

Ok thanks,cant wait til next spring again now x

 

Funnily enough I planted mine next to the existing Acanthus. Acanthus is certainly space greedy and seems to sense space which it then endeavours to fill! Mine is frequently cut back and is now chucking up several flower spikes.