What's Looking Good In June 2024

Oxalis I know a weed, but it's cheery and grows in the bottom of the bamboo.


Kniphofia northiae


Philadelphus "Belle Etoile"


Campanula garganica "Dickson's Gold"

 

Salvia Caradonna with Cotinus Grace.

 

Very nice ^.. my Philadelphus is not out yet.

Geranium pratense 'Blue Thunder'..

Salvia caradonna 'Pink Inspiration'.. fairly new..

Lavender 'Munstead'... Salvia 'Nachtvlinder'.. Helianthemum 'Ben Ledi'..

Salvia 'Royal Bumble'.. Convolvulus. Pinks.. Berberis 'Admiration'..

Helianthemum 'Wisley Primrose'..

Geranium cambridge varieties..

Baptisia 'Twilight Prairieblues'..

Phygelius 'Copperburst Orange'..

 

Deutzia



Alstroemeria Indian Summer



Nepeta Walker's Low looks bluer this year


Alstroemeria Summer Breeze


First oriental poppy out

 

I couldn't help but bring some of my canna lilies up to the community garden, I thought they will be a nice focal point. I've had a lot people wanting to buy them so maybe options somewhere down the line when I split them to sell them off.

 

Gorgeous cannas @mazambo - let's hope your tomato murderer doesn't try to cut the leaves off these too!
Which ones are they by the way?

 

What I love about your pictures @Mrs Hillard is that there is hardly any bare earth, and the plants look so good together. I either have prairies of bare concrete (clay) broken by clumps of willowherb, or fighting mounds of aggressive plants trying to throttle each other.

 

Some photos from the garden here in June:
Bright leaved variety of Weigela.


Looking East

Looking East


Looking West


Also posted a video showing some of what is currently in bloom here.

Happy gardening

 

That's the best Weigela variety I've seen @Macraignil! Lovely garden too!

 

Sage flowers

 

Campanula portenschlagiana.



Phormium Tricolor flower.

 

He'll be buried in one of beds if he touches them I think the canna is red velvet.

 

Terrible picture but it was quite a sight when the sun was out

Climbing hydrangea and clematis Broughton star. The clematis was only planted last spring and I want to trellis above it but there is a female blackbird sitting on eggs, directly below the window at the moment. The hydrangea was a buzz with bees for a few days but as soon as the buddleia globosa began flowering, all the bees departed and left for that.

 

Wow that climbing Hydrangea @Thevictorian!

I was pleased with mine until I saw your pic!

Mine is a cover for an old apple tree trunk, but it has nowhere to go now it’s reached the top.

 

The border in my front garden, lots of cottage garden plants.


Geranium Himalayense Kaya with Geum Totally Tangerine in the background.


Geranium Max Frei in a large pot containing a clematis.


Can’t remember the name of this geranium but it flowers for months on end. Again it’s in a large pot with a clematis. As a very large pot is needed for a clematis, Thorncroft Clematis advise planting a shallow rooted plant like a geranium in the pot as well, seems to work as both are thriving.


Astrantia Roma


Water forget-me-not, I think, in my pond.


And … my first dahlia is out, La Recoleta, a bit nibbled but the promise of things to come.