What's Looking Good In June 2013

silu - if you can grow Martagon Lillies then there is a Penstemon for you somewhere!

 

Silu I am so delighted to see such wonderful pictures of your garden, after your problems with the flooding it amazing to see.

 

Silu your plants look amazing - really robust and healthy.

 

Loving the Sambucas - another one for my list

Here's one of my hardy fuchsias - Margaret - I don't cut them back just trim off the dead ends - some of them are over 8ft and flowering really well from lower down the stems -



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Thank you for your very kind words Pamdish, I'm truly amazed that the vast majority of my garden hasn't suffered in the slightest from all that flaming water!Most of my plants Grannie Annie are "lucky" and get huge quantities of horse manure thrown at them. I need to keep the manure heap within reasonable proportions and the manure laid as a mulch helps keep the weeds down considerably and also helps with moisture which while not always needed a la last year!!! is atm as we have had hardly any rain for 9 weeks so the mulch is a blessing.

 

I could go through them at an amazing rate some days, I am sticking to it at the moment so feel quite smug, and I reset it the other day as it had disappeared, perhaps that`s what caused the glitch. Finding it hard though as at my smoking friends in Norfolk for a couple of weeks.

 

Verbena..'Peaches and cream'....it really does smell like them too...



Foxglove 'Illuminations'

 

The flowers on these three in a row hostas are just budding, when finally in full size will be bigger than my hand. Liked the look this morning so shot the pic.

 

Beautiful Armandii

 

The colours again are amazing Armandii - that yellow rose is just so perfect!