What's Looking Good In July 2013

Lovely Sheal. My late father was a great Roses man and he maintained that however hard the breeders tried they had not managed to improve on Iceberg as a wonderfully healthy. vigorous white Rose either shrub or climbing variety. I know very little about Roses so can't make comment really on whether Dad was right or wrong but certainly you have a star in your garden Sheal!

 

Loved that Linaria. Had to order Linaria "Northern Lights" from T & M 'cos you can never have too much Linaria in the border,
can you?
Jenny

 

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Linaria is correct, I think Sheal ID'd this for me previously. It's a lot smaller then a Snap Dragon and came as part of a wildflower packet, one of the first to flower.[/

 

Plantworld seeds again Longk , I'll collect seed for the seed swap think you're quite near me on the list which reminds me still haven't re registered, took me ages to figure out how to change the ink to blue, what a div , then the computer froze, do it later.

 

Jools, shiney, HuSH, love the poppies!
And the hanging baskets...
And Kristen's skill to 'exclude' the odd colour from the pictures...
And simbad's garden as a holistic experience...


I got up at 4 am this morning to finish an extra job by 8 am Friday, and... here I am, indulging myself in flower forums and milk chocolate by noon.

I can't resist the urge. Now the garden...







This is what came out as a result of my first planning effort (until now I was just 'growing plants'). I'm aware that colours will clash when cosmos flowers profusely. I meant to shied it off by a line of a very tall and handsome variety of pompon-shaped vanilla tagetes, which I had last year, but... it was an F1 hybrid, so it decomposed genetically (if that's the correct way to say it ). Now it's pure orange.



I wish I would lay out this bed differently every year.

 

Campanula "Kent Belle"

A corner group of assorted flowers

Echiveria and Sedum Sieboldii. 'scuze the green pole - fixed to panel to support tomato


Jenny

 

Hi there Angelina ,
nice to see you on this fabulous thread. Your garden is looking really good this July and I think all your flowers are in peaceful harmony with the others in the same bed.
Personally, I can't get my head around this "themed colour approach". Just a cottagey garden full of colour suits me fine.
Can we have some more views please?
Jenny namaste

 

Oh, Jenny, sorry, I've given your post a 'sandwich squeeze'.
Thank you for your nice feedback. More to come...

Some foliage plants in the Strawberry Fields:

 

And... I will soon be heading into the 'hydrangea wave'. Not advertising, but the lens cover was the only 'scale' measurement I had at the moment.





Hydrangea quercifolia blooming for the first time, but obviously being attacked by 'grazing slugs' or grasshoppers. It's bending and soft like a grape vine.


Hydrangea macrophylla 'Perfecta'

 

And some roses:

Red Intuition


'Piano'

Acquired and planted last autumn...

 

Only just saw this Kristen - I just store them dry over the winter. Had one slightly deformed bloom early in the season and had given up on the rest truth be told.

 

Angelina sent me some Lablab seeds - here is the first bloom.........................


Lilium regale.....................




Penstemon smallii is looking fantastic!