Whats Looking Good In July 2023

Lovely Woo .For some reason I cannot figure out I forgot to sow some Godetia this year...love it!

 

We had a good downpour this afternoon & inspired by your pictures I went out onto the balcony to see if I could emulate you - no such luck! By the time I went out, about an hour after it had all finished, most of the raindrops, on any flowers, had evaporated!

Your photos are very good!
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Though I haven't posted many photos lately, I've ben kept very busy, I've not got behind with taking photos of my flowers on the balcony it's just that I haven't had the time lately to rename them & put captions on the photos I've taken! I spent a long time yesterday doing precisely that & today I go & take 20 or 30 more!

 

A few waterlilies.


The BOP isn't as good this year, it struggled with the temperatures last December and lost a few flower spikes.

 

Hollyhock Chaters Double

 

Just coming into bloom Buddleja davidii 'White profusion'

 

Mine hasn't even begun to flower yet! I still consider it a "seedling" until then though it must be about 5 years old now!

 

As I haven't posted any pictures of the Petunias on the balcony for a few weeks here are a few - though they are from June! I don't seem to have any from July yet!
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Here's one that got "sunburnt" during the heatwave we had in June:
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Fuchsia 'Geanii' :-



Fuchsia 'Miss California' :-



Sanguisorba hakusanensis :-



Sanguisorba officinalis 'Little Angel' :-



Hemerocallis 'Frans Hals' :-



Campanula persiciflora :-



Oxalis tetraphylla 'Iron Cross' :-



Oxalis triangularis :-

 

Lovely Michael we have some Iron Cross, it make good ground cover.

 

A strange deformed Strelitzia flower, the stem has gone round in a loop for some reason.


and a bee mopping up some of the large amount of nectar that runs out of the flowers, I often wonder why other insects or birds dont find it.

 

I love the 'Oxalis Iron Cross' plants! I bought some years ago & they grew very well. But then they disappeared & for a couple of years I didn't have any so I bought some more bulbs last autumn & they are flowering now. Though personally I grow them more for their leaves than their flowers. The flower stems get very long & trail on the balcony floor where, if I'm not careful, I end up trading on them.