What's looking good in June 2012

Thank you for that lovely dry stroll Armandii,
how long from seed to flower (self sown Iris?)

 

As I am rather partial to a campanula Simbad, I would love to see your mixed seedlings when they flower. There is a Campanula thread I think???

 

Ooo didn't know there was a campanula thread Jenny, thanks for that ,I'll search it out and post as soon as they start flowering , maybe you can help me identify some of them

 

I've been potting-on all day - hadn't realised so much needed doing until I started!

And my Drought Water Storage (that would have done well had I bought & installedit BEFORE the April and May deluge ...) is filling up nicely. Had a couple of tonnes of water today (which is my new novel way of "measuring" it )

Here's the tanks when they arrived - lovely smell of Soy Sauce on the drive where, man-like, I decided was the best place to wash them out!

 

Soy sauce? Is that what they originally contained? How did you manage to source them?
Good job we are in a rainy phase ( I trust you are too) it will help to wash away the smell = happy OH and neighbours!!

 

Been procrastinating for ages ... awkward to collect, expensive to have delivered, happened to mention it to the local Mr FixIt and they were delivered the next day

I put them flush with the edge of the barn though, and they are a bit visible, so need to move them a bit further back so they are harder to see. And interconnect them properly. And THEN it can rain properly. Please!

 

Crikey thats some water storage Kristen , great idea

 

Well ... I calcualte that, had we not have had a wet spring, given the record low rainfall in E.Anglian over the last 18 months that I need in excess of 100 cu.m. of water storage to cover for such a bad drought - that si to say we would need to store from one season to another, and not rely totally on current-season rainfall.

We typically use 10 cu.m. a week [in the garden] in Jun, Jul, Aug ... and somewhat less in Mar, Apr and Sep, Oct. Average rainfall is about 7.5 cu.m. (on all the roof surfaces here) per week, falling to 6 cu.m./week in Apr, May and Jul. Of course it doesn't work like that! and realistically I need the equivalent of about 8 weeks storage to get me through an average drought period, and as of now I have around 2 weeks storage capacity. Not sure I'm going to need to water the newly planted hedges for some time yet, thanks to the wet spring, so that will save most of the usage we have made in previous years ... its just so hard to justify installing storage for water that only costs around £1 per cu.m. to buy, or a borehole for that matter ...

 

But how happy your newly planted hedges are with all this.
It's an ill wind.....

 

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Aruncus
Iris 'Action Front'

Self sown aquilegia, love this one.

 

Unknown Iris.............



And an unknown Daylily



The yellow Daylilies were looking good in the evening sun too...........