What's looking good in June 2020

Lychnis coronaria is only just starting to come into bloom. It self seeds all over our garden and the bees love it. We have it in cerise and white with an occasional pink. The grey foliage looks good.




Love in a Mist (Nigella) is another self seeder with thousands of them all over the garden. Another one for the bees . We have these in white and quite a few shades of blue








Philadelphus 10ft tall




Phlomis Russeliana (herbaceous perennial) It's supposed to only grow to 1 metre in height. We have seven large patches of it and three of them are well over 4ft tall. Another prolific self seeder (only planted two of the patches) and is the most popular plant in June for bees.


This patch has, more or less, stuck to its 'proper' height


Phlomis fruticosa (evergreen) also ignores its 1 metre height restriction and this is at least 5ft high. Does not self seed in our garden and this plant has been here for about 15 years. Not as well liked by bees as its cousin

 

This one is for @Beckie76


This is the bed where we removed a giant Euonymous that had got badly diseased (scale)


One of our large variety of Heucheras (Mrs Shiney won them in a competition at a famous garden for being the only person to name all 20 plants that were in a box - not Heucheras). This is flowering before the others


Campanula are starting to flower all over the garden (mainly self-seeded)






Even popping up in our Hosta pots


Neither of us remember putting this Verbascum chaixii in the green house (it's growing in the ground!). They self seed all over our veg patch which is about 200ft from the greenhouse

We didn't put the Verbena bonariensis in there either, nor the Briza maxima (quaking or nodding grass) and definitely not the Equisetum!!!

Cytisus battandieri - smelling of pineapple and looking like it


We normally concentrate on having very large floriferous hanging baskets ready for when we open the garden but decided not to bother with them as we had to cancel the event. The other day Mrs Shiney found she had some flowers lying around doing nothing and has planted up four of these small ones


Runner beans have started to flower. This is one of the newest varieties on the market (Firestorm) that has been crossbred with a French bean (the trend now as it helps to produce softer, smoother skinned beans that are supposed to be quite prolific and this one was awarded a 'best buy' for flavour as well). I'll let you know how it compares in crop and flavour.

 

Running short of time but these don't need explanation . I think Please ask if needed but I may not get back on here today

 

some more quick shots around the garden

 

The Sophora has started to flower again (it's a winter flowering tree)


Across the road


Ignore the greenfly I've just spotted I'll have to wash them off!

 

Hi @noisette47 it may not seem like it but the pink droopy one is a Campanula 'Pink Octopus'.

The white one is a Deutzia that has just started to flower. I don't know which variety it is (there are hundreds ) as we have had it for some years, but it's one of the tall ones and is a good 12ft high now.