WHATS LOOKING GOOD IN JULY 2019

Great photos, thanks for sharing. What is looking good to me. Two air conditioning units and a fan. Sorry sun worshippers but, this old fella just can't cope with this heat. I have left off my medicinal skin care treatment for fear I might fry. Weather conditions never affected me before but now, since my brush with cancer, my whole world has changed.

More piccies please. Apologies for the drooling and salivating, oops!

 

Another Veronica ...this time First Kiss

(Not a disease on the foliage.....dead petals from nearby gaura)

 

Oleanders.




The dwarf Oleander (cutting from Paphos) now about 10 years old isn't flowering very well, might have to take cuttings again.

Echinacea Magnus.

Salvia Amistad, left it in the ground through the winter and disappeared completely, now 5ft high.


Begonia Santa Cruz.

 

@strongylodon do your oleanders live outside all year? And @Verdun - really? An elegia outside? I think that once I get my garden sorted I'm going to try a few chancy plants. My Acacia drummondii spent the winter outside, but still isn't flowering .
All I have to show is this out of focus philesia. I don't know why I persist with it. It produces one flower every year. I only forgive it because I cannot grow lapageria and it's the nearest thing.
Here's a better photo from a previous time when it decided to give me its solitary flower

 

CarolineL, yes Elegias been growing here for a few years now. Actually I bought them from a guy who regularly wins gold medals at Chelsea for these and other plants....comes from Cornwall not far from me Lots of tender plants in my garden and most will survive most winters

Try a few “chancy” plants. What a flower though on your philesia.....you have tempted me to grow it now

I always add something new to me....this year a couple of colocasias. Boy! Are they going to be big and next year will be huge

 

@strongylodon Lovely collection of plants! I never seem to be able to grow echinaceas. I particularly like that dwarf oleander, nice flowers.

Nick

 

Just pottering around the garden taking a few photos....it’s far too hot to do anything else.

 

@CarolineL the pink flowered oleander has been in the ground for four years and I think it is the hardiest, reds and other colours seem (to me) to be less so.

 

I have never managed to get oleander to flower past it’s first year strongylodon .....something I’m missing?


Here, veronicastrum Alba is showing up plus first flowers on Sanguisorba.

Persicaria Orangefield bottom picture

 

Thanks @strongylodon and @Verdun for your answers. My garden is definitely quite mild compared to when I was in Nottinghamshire, so worth a try. I have some nice young oleanders from cuttings kindly sent by @noisette47 so I shall propagate them and have a go! @Verdun, if you cannot get hold of philesia, I have a VERY small rooted cutting... but I might try dividing the main plant later as it sort of suckers. (I could not PM you)

 

Thanks CarolineL.....that’s very kind and I might take you up on your offer

 

Cereus peruvianus. Night blooming.