What's Looking Good in July 2024

We have a number of Veronicastrum but they are only just coming into flower, much later than normal. The bees and butterflies love them when they are in full flower




Phytolacca were also late in flowering and went to seed very quickly. In a month or two they will look quite striking when the seed heads turn to a lovely shiny black colour.


Both pink and white Mallow seed themselves all over the garden and, like lots of other flowers that self-seed here, we leave them if they aren't in the way.


Hanging baskets aren't doing too well this year but they are colouring up nicely now


We had to take these down as the very heavy downpours were damaging them as the water poured over the gutters. We're not on mains drainage and the land drains from the downpipes have long since given up the ghost.




We keep some very tall Verbascum thapsus (Great Mullein) to keep the Mullein caterpillars off the Verbascum chaixii. This 10ft high




Some of our chaixii which attract the pollinators around our veg plot


The chaixii also self seed easily

 

The poppies self-seed everywhere


Orchids cuddling up








Some Hydrangeas that the Boss is preparing for me to sell at my clubs (a couple of thousand pounds for the charity so far this year)


And these


And these Laurel. The very golden ones are popular as stand alone plants. They're just cuttings from part of our normal golden hedge that has produced some sports


We're cutting back some of the Rosemary and I shall trim the best off and give them away at my clubs. We'll probably cut another two lots like that. We also give away lots of stalks of bay leaves



The Boss has cut back six bucket loads of Nigella. Apart from them looking good in the garden they are excellent for flower arranging when they have gone to seed like this. She belongs to four flower arranging clubs (also gives talks on it) and gives these away.

 

Good morning this is my fatsia Japonica it was 6ft x 6ft but I gave it an annual light trim

 

Yes

It's a Petunia, no idea which one as it was part of a mixed bunch

 

@Meomye Sorry but I don't know offhand .

Pre- covid we used to open our garden for charity every year and raise a lot of money for a local charity. One day someone turned up at the door with that wheelbarrow and said that they had ordered one and had been delivered two of them. The supplier couldn't be bothered to pick the extra one up - so it was a gift.

That was at least ten years ago but I shall have a closer look to see whether there is a name on it.