Whats Looking Good JUNE 2025

I HAVE OBSERVED FOR 3 DAYS
NOT A SINGLE BEE
WHY NOT?


Jenny namaste

 

OH just picked a few flowers of my latest ‘ treat’ Cherry chocolate Cosmos bought in a 3 litre pot from our local family-run nursery just 3 weeks ago ! It’s to go with my Chocolate Cosmos (2) growing in pots which have come back every year for the last 10 years originally grown from Tubers bought from a local Supermarket

 

Don’t look at it, then they will come

 

@Jenny namaste that is odd as we have many butterflies on our lavenders and our honeysuckles. Maybe your weather is very windy and colder so they are hunkering down for a bit.

 

The Bumblebees are all over the Clover in the grass (lawn). Maybe we have them all

Catanache serrula cupids dart.

 

Rosa multiflora (rootstock perhaps).

 

Some more photos from the garden over the last couple of weeks:
Evergreen Cornus in bloom even after getting a severe chop back in spring since it was getting too big

Tamarix and Spiraea flowers

Zelkova showing off its nice multi shaded green leaves in spite of being crowded a bit more than I intended by some other trees

Borage flowering after self seeding in my garlic crop.


Also posted another video of some of the blooms in the garden this month here.

Happy gardening!

 

It's a bit overgrown



Hardy Geranium (name unknown) ...



Prunella ...



Campanula lactiflora ...



Campanula isophylla (while and blue) scrambling through everything ...





Fuchsia 'Blue Angel' ...



Rose 'Gentle Hermione' ...



Oxalis 'Iron Cross' coming into flower now ...

 

After last night's rain.

Iris ensata Variegata.



Foxglove.



Hardy Geranium Hexham Velvet.



Rose Ascot.

 

Hydrangea Annabelle just turning white. I bought these in April and they were just bare sticks in a pot so I’m pleased with how much growth they’ve put on.


Dahlia’s are just starting to flower, this one is a new one this year, Dahlia Peaches.



Dahlia Copper Boy



Last of the first flush of roses, The Pilgrim.



Roald Dahl was late to get going so still has quite a few blooms left.



Ballerina



I’m so pleased I kept the seeds from last year’s Petunia Tidal Wave Red Velour, such a brilliant plant.

 

I've left my garden behind in France and I'm now at OH's garden in south Norfolk. It badly needs watering and deadheading but Kev has done a good job of mowing and tidying.

Rose Ballerina


2 clematis Emilia Plater and Etoile Violette Blue Angel


Day Lily




Alstroemeria Indian Summer


Rose on arch is Chevy Chase, on the way out

 

Everything looks grand and colourful. What is the first picture please.

 

Do you mean my first picture @Victoria? It's rose Ballerina.

I've edited and done a bit of naming.

 

Eustacia Vye

Iceberg - jackmanii

Ghislaine

eremurus Pinokkio

Lady of Shalot

Gabriel Oak

Paul Scarlet
Delphinium Faust a bit out of shape I am think of moving it to where I don't know - Rose generous gardener

 

Pergola is looking good @Perki along with everything else.
Eremurus is really good to see.