What's looking good in July 2012

There's a lot of colour around despite the bad weather.

Three of my favourite geranium bicolours.
Orange Ice.


Maverick Star.


Pink Meteor.


Gazania Daybreak.


First flowers of Penstemon Flamingo.


Heliotrope Marine with pink and white Argyranthemum.

 

Strongylodon, what you have done to that backyard corner is so charming to the eye and so cheerful and welcoming to the soul! Great!
I have taken the liberty of posting yours and Jenny's baskets on the Bulgarian forum: there's a lot to learn from the arrangements.

Dim, I'm not keen on orchids, but your efforts on this 'binned' one were incredibly rewarding!

And longk has the nasty habit of posting certain weird 'things', which trigger no reaction in me as they border or my conceptual ignorance... , and then, just ONE incredible plant that grips me by the throat and urges me to press the 'Like' link: the Zauschneria (Californian Fuchsia) in this case!
Never mind 'the habit'...

I have my first ORNAMENTAL grass in flower this season. Now I am convinced that one must have them physically, to appreciate their beauty. Pictures are misleading as they cannot render that mystical, fluid, semi-transparent cloud. It's an actual shape, a volume, but not a solid one, as with hedge plants or shrubs.
Very nice and inspiring...

Deschampsia caespitosa

 

Thanks Angelina, I'm trying.
Inhouse Adviser says I can be very trying!

 

Agastache 'Golden Jubilee'

Francoa Sonchifolia

Jasione Perennis 'Blue Light'

Sisyrinchium 'Palmifolium'(bird of paradise sisyrinchium)

Salvia 'Forsskaolii'

Verbascum 'Snow Maiden'

 

Catanache

And had to sneak one in didn't I , Daylily 'Lurch'

 

What a fine array of gorgeous plants Simbad. All ones we don't often see in "ordinary" gardens.
I love that Agastache Golden Jubilee

 

Aaaw thankyou Jenny , I grew the agastache from seed last year really pleased with how well they've done

 

Were they easy or difficult?
Like the look of it very much,

 

Very easy Jenny, I'll save you seed if you like?, it does like well drained soil though, I tried it in several areas and this is the best where the soils got the best drainage.

 

The four wall baskets outside one of the kitchen windows.








and the two other on the garage wall.

 

I love to lead people astray wherever possible Angelina!

 

Fabulous baskets Strongy

 

They are Masterpieces Strongy. The best I've seen so far.
Love 'em all to bits,

 

Thanks, this is the first time I've grown my own plants at home after growing them at work for the last 30 years it's a novelty for me, never needed my own greenhouse.