What's looking good in June 2012

Us two are so clever I had sour grapes after mine died !!

Spruce

 

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


Lysimachia punctata - the new garden has a nice little clump of this, but I've heard that it can be invasive................


Love the small blooms on this next one - Nicotiana langsdorfii..............






Penstemon smallii is a recent purchase and has opened its first flowers just in time to get flattened by the predicted wind and rain! The blooms are small but rather special (in my eyes at least).


The Eucomis bicolor are looking great! They certainly benefitted from being started off in the greenhouse..............

 

My Choisya 'Sundance' has coloured up really well in this it's third year.



Pericallis (Senetti) Magenta bi-colour. The second picture shows the true colour.

 

Fuchsia "David" (a lovely dwarf Fuchsia)..............


White Tradescantia blooming at last after the house move..............


White Penstemon growing in the wall by the back door...............

 

Here's one nice little accidental combination; common hawkweed with a Clematis Arabella flower;

 

Joolz, I planted three Salvia Hotlips, grown from jumbo plugs and planted in April, they are flowering but only red so far, perhaps some good weather will bring out the white.


Chocolate Cosmos first flower, from a Wilkos bare root.


First flowers from Callistemon Viridiflorus.

 

Rosa 'Winchester Cathedral'

Peony


Asphodelus 'Albus'

Sage, geraniums, scabious

Geranium 'Johnsons Blue' and Tradescantia

Delphinium 'Astolat'

 

Simbad

Looking good how that delph stood up to the wind

Spruce

 

A quick look around my patch this week.

The herbaceous border


On the trellis behind that seat, the Honeysuckle is better than ever this year, the fragrance is simply wonderful.


The Scabious are attracting plenty of bees.


This bed sits in the shade of next door's garage but has filled in well over time.


The herb patch

 

Ive not checked on any growth spurt on the salvia i planted but it was that small slugs have prob eaten it i love your viridflorus im still waiting for flowers on my red callistemon and the yellow ones you sent me seed for(forgot name soz x) is it the 3rd yr they flower strongy?
im liking the choc cosmos aswell ,ive got a mixed and purity ive grown from seed but not seen any buds yet x

 

Beautiful gardens Trunky and ARMANDII
'Winchester Cathedral' has a gorgeous scent ARMANDII its a sport of 'Mary Rose' and the buds are flecked pink with the occasional pink petal too, the flowers usually open singley like in my picture but last year they all opened together, don't know whether it was something to do with stress brought on by all the dry weather, it was quite a sight as the flowers are quite large, here's a picture from last year

 

Its got a well hidden stake Spruce