Whats Looking Good JUNE 2025

More poppies have opened up this morning, bees are loving them

 

First flowers on Clem. Aotearoa, grown on from a little slip I got in the local s'market for a couple of quid. It has loads of buds, and it's own raised bed. The Star of India further along is flowering now, so I'll try and get a few pix of that, but loading them here is slower than a week in the jail. No idea why...


Iris ensata Kumo no Obi [or Obi wan Kenobi, as I keep calling it ]
There's lots more flowers now, but I've not taken a pic yet


My little freebie Orchid, that arrived in amongst the soil of a Ligularia many years ago. It's a bit droopy in this pic, but it perked up later with the rain. The purple Iris behind it is I. sib. Purplicious. It's a fairly recent introduction for me - I bought a few bare roots of it last year [?] and it's working well.


Iris. sibirica Dreaming Yellow. First flowers for this as the slugs annihialted every bud carrying stem last year. It has loads to come too. Result!

 

Campanula "Kent Belle"


Jenny namaste

 

Front door, pots and hanging baskets mainly full of Petunia Tidal Wave Red Velour, all grown from seed collected from last year’s plants.



Patio area which smells amazing in the evening, roses and clematis.



Hydrangea Annabelle, this is its first year and I’m looking forward to the green flower heads turning white.



My first dahlia, Jill, has flowered.

 

Love the dark purple of that Clematis, @fairygirl.

A white Lobelia with aspirations to be blue and Geranium Rozanne blending beautifully with a small Veronica.

 

Mitraria coccinea still flowering

 

@roders how lucky you are to have cherries. Our Stella was first stripped of its leaves by the pigeons and then the blackbirds and for the first time, crow took every single cherry when they were still green. We have tried so many different deterrents and none of them work. Thankfully the birds have left the Morello cherries which we picked most of them yesterday and then they were bottled.

 

Clematis, no idea what it is called though

 

Campanula


Borage


One of my new hardy fuchsias, I think it's probably "Shrimp Cocktail"



This appeared when I planted sweet peas; it was immediately obvious from the leaf it wasn't one, but I left it to see what it grew into. Some kind of vetch, very big (it's reached the top of the obelisk) and rather pretty.

Polemonium



Nasturtium


Lupin and Iberis


Rose Campion


Salvias

 

Iris ensata Variegata.

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Not sure why my pic posted twice, but I'm having a lot of problems just now with pix.
It's a good colour @ViewAhead , but I was expecting it to be a bit 'redder', which is why I put some of my dark red lilies in the bed beside it! It's also a wee bit too similar to the S. of India one at the other end of the border. The flowers are quite small, but there's also a nice wavy edge to the leaves. Hopefull it'll continue to grow well. I like it a lot.
I've taken some of C. Star of India, but I don't know if I can face footering with the photos. I think it's partly the doofer on the photo editor I use. The usual rubbish when they decide to change something that worked perfectly well already....

 

I always crop my photos before trying to upload, @fairygirl, and that seems to help even if I just take the tiniest bit off. But you have probably tried that already.

 

I do that automatically @ViewAhead. I do it by reducing them to below 1MB, after cropping and tidying them up a bit.
It's just the length of time it's taking, and they keep turning when I go to save them, plus various other annoying things! It puts me off posting pix at all. I don't know if it's because I have to use Firefox for this forum, but I didn't have these problems last year. I assume it's some sort of update that I really don't need - or want.

 

I use chrome and never have problems uploading pictures.
My camera is set to jpeg but not the largest file size, 7.5m what ever that means.
I don't do any cropping just post as they are mostly, probably why the background always looks bad.

 

Getting going ...