What is looking good in July 2025

Hosta Patriot, a good one for flowering and popular with bees. The white leaf margins really stand out from a distance.

 

I didn't know they flowered!

 

They can set seed too @Victoria. I usually remove the flowers to encourage more and larger leaves. Some of the flowers are more attractive than others .

 

Hanging baskets are starting to look good

 

If it wasn't for the slugs I'd grow hostas for the flowers.

 

You could try growing them in pots and put them on a garden bench or chair @NigelJ. This seems to deter slugs here.

 

Sempervivums.

 

I could, but I don't have any chairs or benches in the garden and I already have more than enough trip hazards without adding more.

 

Dahlia Kilburn Glow. A water lily variety.

 

Rosa "Ingrid Bergman" a favourite of mine, not at it's best in the damp SW.


Cactus flowering madly in the greenhouse.


Dahlia "David Howard"


Aquilegia chrysantha


Mitraria coccinea


Watsonia angusta (I think)

 

I took a few photos while watering today.

Cosmos & Silas Marner rose:



A closeup of Silas Marner. I love the fragrance as well. Small flowers at the moment, but it's a still a baby.



Unnamed hylotelephium:



Berberis "Nana" :


Unnamed hosta.



One of my two beloved calamagrostis Karl Foerster.



Hebe "Nicola's Blush".




Brunnera "Jack Frost".



Hypericum:



Heucherella "Brass Lanterns" :

 

A place for the birds, bees and butterflies.

 

I bought a couple of young Salpiglossis plants a few weeks ago and they've been flowering very well. I've posted the amazing purple flowers before. The second plant has a much subtler flower, a very delicate primrose yellow.



Sweet Pea


Veronicastrum. I had to keep rescuing this one from the fox's diggings earlier in the year.



Thistle. I shall cut this down soon so it doesn't get to seed itself around, but for now I'm letting the insects enjoy.


Wild Carrot - a surprise appearance but a very welcome one. They develop the most beautiful seed heads.

 

I wouldn't want to encourage that then @NigelJ .

The previous owner here left an old bench which I cleaned up and painted and now use as a slug free zone (so far) .

 

I can trip over invisible objects with no problem.