What's looking good in July 2017

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    I'm really happy to see Zantedeschia elliottiana in bloom as I put a spade through it (twice!) in March when I was planting something else...............
    [​IMG]Zantedeschia elliottiana by longk48, on Flickr

    The sixth and final bloom on this Ismene festalis scape...........
    [​IMG]Ismene festalis by longk48, on Flickr

    The first bloom on one of my seed grown Galtonia candicans............
    [​IMG]Galtonia candicans by longk48, on Flickr

    Lillies survived the winter..............
    [​IMG]Lilium hybrid by longk48, on Flickr

    Echeveria setosa minor...............
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    Phlox (from Lidl last year)...............
    [​IMG]Phlox by longk48, on Flickr
     
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      Pelargonium Sidoides

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      Tiny flowers, each only about 1 cm across.
       
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        Gazanias....flowering over winter too.....pennisetum rubrum, gaura Corries Gold and variegated pittosporum
         
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          IMG_2012.JPG Missed the flowers on gaura so here they are just emerging
           
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            IMG_1961.JPG Astrantia Super Star and salvia patens.....imperata red baron just in the picture. Sanguisorba Pink Elephant to the side
             
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              IMG_1982.JPG H. Hidcote, C. Lucifer and yellow dahlia
               
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                I shall be dreaming about pink elephants again tonight.....MUST have some of those @Verdun :wub2:
                 
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                  Ha ha Tetters.....wait until you see S. Lilac Squirrel. The girls swoon over this one. Subtle it is not but the foliage is superb anyway. Opening out now so a couple of days yet! :)
                   
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                      Canardly wait :hapfeet:
                       
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                      Right ...just ordered Sanguisorba lilac squirrel, pink brushes, blackthorn. Name is on list for pink elephant ..... and whose fault is it that I wonder :nerd: now need to start looking for Actea James Compton :rolleyespink:
                       
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                        Blackthorn is yet to flower. here Tetters. :)
                        Actea Brunette is very similar to J. Compton if that makes it easier :rasp:...oops sorry, meant :heehee:
                         
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                        Clematis " Arabella "

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                        Platycodon

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                        Sweet Peas

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                        Pelargonium

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                        Fuchsia " Roger de Cooker "

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                        Fuchsia " Waldis Spezi "

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                        Fuchsia " Marinka "

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                        Fuchsia " Riccartonii "

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                          eucalyptus perriniana flowering wonderfully, scented of honey and the bees love it EucPerrinianaSm.jpg

                          And the sphaeralcea munroana is doing very well this year. Goes well with perovskia and ligularia behind it.
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