What's looking good in June 2015

I've got lots of that variety

 

For me it was years ago

 

This is our first proper sign that summer is here. The first of what appears to be hundreds of Passion Flowers


Campanula have spread like wildfire throughout the garden. A lot of whites and a whole variety of tones of blue/purple




Bronze Fennel is a bit slow this year but is now coming along


There are hundreds of bees on this Cistus


and the honey on the Euphorbia behind it also draws the bees (and @Jenny namaste )


The Phlomis alongside will also draw bees in quantity but the petals are still a bit tight for them to get inside. They'll be ready by the weekend


On the other side of the Cistus the Aruncus and Elderberry are competing with it for whiteness




The wild poppies are still only just beginning to flower in the bed by the road. (Note To Self: time to cut the laurel)


Penstemons are just starting (I think we have about a dozen varieties but I sometimes confuse them for other plants )

 

Miniature Hosta is flowering




And the big ones are starting to flower too


Flowers on the male asparagus (this one is doing particularly well this year. I think it may have had some help )


Some lovely brightness is appearing






Don't know the name of this rose - it has been there for decades


Part of the new bed - now growing well (not bad for three months old)


Lychnis - white and cerise varieties - run wild in our veg plot. Behind them are (right hand side of picture) Stachys are only just starting to bloom (we'll have the happy buzz of bees soon) and behind and to the left the golden feverfew is in flower. Behind that are Artichokes.

 

Some of our succulents are starting to flower
















And an intruder has snuck in!