Whats Looking Good In August

This is our fave Hanging basket I made it up in June . I have ‘ Hawkshead ‘ Fuchsia in a big 40cm deep pot up the back garden( nearly lost it last year but just in time re-potted it mid summer ) it’s picked up will take a pic later and post it. But this fuchsia in the Hanging basket in the picture it’s so so pretty ! . Lost the label so don’t know the name .

 

Kniphofia rooperi


Ceratostigma willmottianum


Echinops banaticus


Symphyotrichum cordifolium "Little Carlow"


Cyclamen self seeded who knew they

could behave like invasives




Cyclamen africanum


Leuchtenbergia principis


Hydrangea macrophylla "Merville de Sanguine"


Salvia "Amistad" a two year old cutting planted out last year.

 

How different is cyclamen africanum please @NigelJ ? Are the flowers bigger than hederifolium? They look very similar. I have some africanum (supposedly) in my glasshouse and can't see a difference!

 

@CarolineL
It's a bigger flower and the stem is significantly longer, I'll get a picture of the foliage when it appears.
https://www.cyclamen.org/plants/species/cyclamen-africanum/#tab_general

 

Nooo I didnt realise cyclamen wasnt native I see it around here quite a lot... Ahhh so much has moved into england!

I did find a lovely campanula native to england which cheered me up a bit!
I believe it is Nettle-leaved bellflower. There were a few shades which is odd.



I also managed to collect some seeds of this and of betony and a wierd burnet, perhaps salad burnet. Annoyingly the prettiest thing (subjective!) I found turned out to be "american horseweed". Looks like a starry sky with little fireworks. A purple prickly lettuce I saw a while ago was similar but would need to be in a clump for the same effect.
Not a great picture. I was being chased slowly by a horse.


I also saw this. My app says marsh mallow but im not so sure. I think it came in via human accident somehow.



Edit:
This website suggests the lettuce I saw was greater lettuce and not prickly. British Wild Plant: Lactuca virosa Great lettuce

lovely plant

 

Neither are snowdrops.
We just won't tell Reform.

 

nooo at least i havent rly seen them in the wild i guess

seems they are native in northern france at least so maybe wiped out in uk by ice ages