WHAT'S LOOKING GOOD IN JUNE 2018

They all get a bit of a trim during the year if there's a few small new branches that are not "conforming." Some will grow sticking up and no amount of bending will train them, as do the skirts get trimmed if they aren't growing evenly. I use garden shears! But any serious pruning gets done at the end of the year when they are dormant.

 

Your Laurel looks stunning Shiney besides the size of it

 

Tetters gorgeous display on some of your pictures mate...they really caught my eye and the first one is a stunning blue

 

Lovely plants Tetters. Huge respect

 

Woo I had to look twice at your picture...with the sun on your lions I thought you had sprayed them gold

 

More Bottlebrushes, Callistemon Perth Pink in full bloom.


Callistemon Inferno very upright and now about 8ft high.


Callistemon seiberi greenish yellow with needle like leaves and about the hardiest.




Alstromeria Indian Summer.


Salvia Hotlips.


Salvia Amistad.


First flower on the variegated Oleander, too tender to stay outside over Winter.


Petunia Pink Ice.

 

Hi @shiney ,
The pic you've labelled as your first Lily is a Hemerocallis . Although commonly called a " Day Lily " it's not actually a Lily but part of the Asphodel family.

 

Hi @Tetters what is the white flower behind the geum in your last but 1 picture? It's lovely!
Georgeous callistemon @strongylodon - I haven't tried growing them again since I lost all mine in the hard winter a few years ago.
Here's what's growing with me:
Lilium pumilum, seed ex Russia apparently (according to AGS), first flowering 2 years from sowing.

A bit squinny on a floppy stem, and looks rather different to my bought bulbs of L pumilum
Bought version:

Lilium bulbiferum:


Acacia retinodes (I think), has got its feet well into the soil since I chucked it out of the greenhouse last year - flowering well.

 

I can't believe this glorious show Strongylodon when I lost all mine...they're such a plant...saw some up the garden centre the other day standards and edge ones and omg they was on deaths door

 

It`s an Astilbe, but I can`t remember the variety offhand.....mind you, sometimes I have difficulty remembering my own name