What's Looking Good In June 2013

Start from dark maroon coloured flowers:

Salpiglossis


Dianthus


Roscoea ??? I'm not sure of the name at all since it appears and flowers 3 weeks before the other roscoea and the leaves stay this sender rather then broad. Can anyone confirm its ID?? Thanks.


Pennisetum thunbergii

 

It's poppy season

Bursting bud

Opened now


Bursting


Opening

 

Other things that look good at the end of June

Allium


Clematis sieboldii


Lychnis chalcedenica



Trollius chinensis

 

shiney - I have a similar Saxifraga(?) in the wall...................


The leaves are different, but it's a plant that just looks after itself.

HsuH - could it be R.scillifolia? Here's mine......................


With a mug for scale...................


General things;
Hosta in bloom..................


Philadelphius?


Day Lily..................


Digitalis lutea is the creamy flower in front of the far taller Digitalis parviflora.................

 

Kristen hate to say it but my Grandiflorum have not spread quickly, neither have the Floro Pleno, their worse!! I have grown Grandiflorum from seed ( don't think Floro Pleno grows from seed, so division =hellish expensive). The Grandiflorum does in my experience take flaming ages to get to flowering size. It takes a good 3 years to even get the familiar shaped leaves, however if you can be patient! I didn't do particularly well collecting and sowing the seed.Now I just let nature take it's course and then ferret around for self sown seedlings come Spring and then lift to grow on. Even that can be a bit hit or miss. They certainly don't like being dried out and I've even had problems with rot when doing the odd division of both. Just as well they are glorious as otherwise they wouldn't be worth growing as seem quite fussy bu....., or I've found them so anyway.
Help never even thought of stuff ending up at car boots, think I'll just "forget" about the Aruncus swap and keep my Trilliums!

 

I think you are right. My other Roscoea are R purpurea, and they only emerged above the ground over a week ago.

 

Yes

On gardener's world recently they were putting pre-filled seed trays under plants that self-seed (assuming they don't "spit" their seeds a couple of hundred yards, or have feathery wind-blown things that head off to the next County!). Might be an idea to get more control over the process ... if you want more control that is!

PWS have seed of Aruncus dioicus (shiney note new name for Aruncus sylvestris )
http://www.plant-world-seeds.com/store/view_seed_item/193
and my local nursery has it too for a fiver.

 

Cold showers and beatings will continue then ...

 

Shrubbery:





Crambe cordifolia looking good with Delphinium


and on its own at the front of the border looking "frothy"

 

Like "institutional cabbage" you mean?

 

Jenny
Your borders are looking very high, wide and handsome Kristen. I was in Kew gardens yesterday and the perfume of the Crambe cordifolia was delicious....

 

Re the above.....And here was me thinking my shrub beds were quite big!!!!

 

Love the white theme Shiney.

 

More enjoyment in the garden - everyday I just love to see what's going to flower next