What's looking good in June?

Now as to you Mr Banana Man, this is my alternative to your blue one.



However it looks better growing through the honeysuckle.



A funny thing - this is a relatively recent plant, I went into nursery for a known breed and this was on the counter, it looked so well (in the winter) I just had to have it, there was no name forthcomming, but I love its open exuberant cabbage like flirtation - it is a climber and does look best when viewed from below.

 

Sorry pete, nearly forgot you - Korean pine from seed, WOW!

I am trudging through "welltempered gardiner" Christopher Lloyd and he talks of the advantages of staying in the same garden for a long time. How true and I could deliberate on the subject for hours. My father would never leave his old garden - oh what is it us earthy people have to our roots?

um it must be getting past my bed time if I am gettin phillosophical.....

 

Incarvillia Delvayii, I think it is also known as the flowering fern. I bought this early last year as a tuber - looks like a carrot. Flowered for 7 weeks last year.

 

my little offering..

 

Thats a lovely colour Wildflower - do you know the name?

 

What can you say, with pictures like these and others on GC, will be great to look back at them in the gloomy part of winter! Well done!

 

My June contribution all taken tonigh - for those geranium lovers


then there's the delphs



and a rose hydranga combination

 

PeterS I think Incarvillea (a beautiful under used plant) is also known as the hardy Gloxinia, it does resemble the flower a little.

 

I lost my incarvellea - not surptisingly in my wet frost pocket! I also lost my poppy like yours wildflower as builders dumped their rubble on it.

Lovely pictures, and yes I hope they see us through the winter.

 

Waco - yor rose picture looks vey much like 'Albertine' which is well scented but climbs for ever and only flowers the once.

Fran - your blue geranium picture can you tell me the name of this one?

Lovely photos from one and all - sorry am no cameraman. Have lots of hardy geraniums in flower as well as Astrantia, Irises, Poppies and Tellimas which have been flowering for some weeks now and are just going over.

 

Taken yesterday. A bit late this year but the sunny dry June weather has really suited the peonies. Last year they got very bedraggled with the rain but this year they are magnificent. This was from a badly congested clump I dug up in autumn and dotted around.

 

sorry i dont know what the name is of my poppy..allthough i saw them divide one on the garden programme last week..its just one of the oriental poppys...it needs moving as its being squashed by daisys!!so i only have one flower on it this year where as their are normally loads..

 

Chobart - its geranium ibericum. Seems to do well in full sun, and forms quite a clump

 

chobart, its not albertine, it has a much bigger flower, repeats very freely and is a deeper pink, but please keep comming up with suggestions, I think though it looks old fashioned it could actually be relatively modern (last 50 years or so?)

I lost my albertine this year - afraid it did not survive the builders who put a load of rubble on top of it. I don't think I can replace it because you are not supposed to plant them in same place. My Montana also failed this year on pergola, but it has a habbit of comming and going - at least it prevents it getting to big!

 

June is bustin' out all over! - despite the drought. The roses and geraniums are glorious this year and the earlier rain and the present sunshine really have brought them on well.

Just a few:

Rosa mundi (Rosa gallica versicolor)is one of the earliest medieval apothecaries roses and one of the oldest in cultivation.


Gertrude Jekyll - one of my all time favourites although she is a modern shrub rose.


Falstaff (David Austin)- crisp, dark and perfect, rivalled only by Dark Lady