What’s looking good in August 2019

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    34A5FF8F-4DBE-4A79-9253-815F9A6C062A.jpeg Heleniums, thalictrum and VB
     
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      E9EBD2D9-02CB-4671-BF09-F091BAC0B36B.jpeg Helenium
      Baudirector Linne....I think from memory
       
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        5130E951-8B9A-4F84-A58D-2CCE2238072F.jpeg One of several clumps of lobelia here....this is Tania’s Sister
         
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          Brilliant pictures Verdun :dbgrtmb: the helenium are glorious
           
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            Thanks Perki...several more just beginning to flower. Brilliant time of the year:)
             
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            Fuchsia 'Thalia'..............
            [​IMG]Fuchsia 'Thalia' by longk48, on Flickr

            [​IMG]Fuchsia 'Thalia' by longk48, on Flickr

            Fuchsia 'Insulinde'..............
            [​IMG]Fuchsia 'Insulinde' by longk48, on Flickr

            [​IMG]Fuchsia 'Insulinde' by longk48, on Flickr

            Aloe noid...............
            [​IMG]Aloe noid by longk48, on Flickr

            Captured down by the river Thames in Oxford the other night, Impatiens capensis.............
            [​IMG][​IMG]Impatiens capensis by longk48, on Flickr

            [​IMG]Impatiens capensis by longk48, on Flickr
             
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              Your thalia is far, far better than mine longk :) Do you feed it regularly....liquid feed, sustained release? Keep it moist?:)
               
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              48FBC32B-D15D-464C-9E25-B6973F6A5885.jpeg Taken as the light is fading somewhat but I love this sanguisorba. Taller than I am
              Everyone wants to touch it!
               
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                Watered when I remember, slow release MiracleGrow and partial sun.
                 
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                    Ok, I know I'm sad, but this little table collection has me wanting to shout with joy this morning.... ( but I can't, as everyone is still asleep!)

                    From the left in the maroon pot, my 3 year old date palm, that is finally starting to have palmate leaves.
                    In the white pot with black bamboo decorations, a citrus pip plant that I identified for a friend, and she gave me as a 'thank you' (it's now at least twice the size it was 2 months ago).
                    The pot on the plastic tray - that tiny pink blob on the right-hand side? That's a mango seed, starting to sprout!!:yay:
                    The plant in the white pot, that seems to have a right angle bend in the stem, is a first ginger leaf, coming up from a ginger tuber.
                    Then a pot with two more 3 year old date palms, not yet growing palmate leaves.
                    :wub2:Finally, a blue tray with little pots of maidenhair, and sword fern babies, grown from spores - mainly from the pot with the white label in it (I use the label to gently tease the baby plants from the soil surface).

                    Sad I know, but I'm growing a Mang-go!!!:yay::wub2:
                     
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                      Ok, I know I'm sad, but this little table collection has me wanting to shout with joy this morning.... ( but I can't, as everyone is still asleep!)

                      From the left in the maroon pot, my 3 year old date palm, that is finally starting to have palmate leaves.
                      In the white pot with black bamboo decorations, a citrus pip plant that I identified for a friend, and she gave me as a 'thank you' (it's now at least twice the size it was 2 months ago).
                      The pot on the plastic tray - that tiny pink blob on the right-hand side? That's a mango seed, starting to sprout!!:yay:
                      The plant in the white pot, that seems to have a right angle bend in the stem, is a first ginger leaf, coming up from a ginger tuber.
                      Then a pot with two more 3 year old date palms, not yet growing palmate leaves.
                      :wub2:Finally, a blue tray with little pots of maidenhair, and sword fern babies, grown from spores - mainly from the pot with the white label in it (I use the label to gently tease the baby plants from the soil surface).

                      Sad I know, but I'm growing a Mang-go!!!:yay::wub2:
                       
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                        And pleased with yourself you should be Sian :)
                         
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                          Oops! I started the August thread yesterday.....should I not have done that! There are now 2 Looking good threads right now for August???:noidea:
                           
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