What's looking good in August 2016

I am loving this cosmos at the moment



The first signs of flowers on a Mina Lobata; with all the crazy weather this year I never thought it would ever take off!



I had forgotten I sown these seeds but a wonderful surprise



Another "surprise" are the Bridgewater Beans (thank you @Zigs ) which have covered one side of my garden arch and waving at the sky.

 

Sunflower

 

That's my mum's middle name @"M", so if it's anything like her personality I would imagine red or orange.

 

Well it is meant to be a white with a frilly pink on the outer edges of the flowers. Maybe more your Mum's undies than her personality?

 

Here's the little covered area outside our kitchen door ...



Cyclamen in the garden ...





I like this shrub - Cryptomeria japonica spiralis ...

 

Not grown sweet corn for years, so quite pleased with this.
if all the cobs come out this good I will be happy.

 

Sweet corn is the devils rabbit poo-poo!

 

Tricyrtis formosa.................

 

Yeah, but at least I dont need a magnifying glass to see it.

 

Not in a million years @"M"!

 

Eucomis "Sparkling Burgundy"..................


Schizanthus pinnatus...............


Manfreda elongata (just for @noisette47 as she was so smitten with it )..................

 

Ohhhh..can't sleep at night for thinking about that Manfreda
The Eucomis, now, that's lovely. Mine hasn't got such a good colour, though. Have you propagated it from seed, longk? I noticed some seed pods forming and wonder if it's worth a go?

 

I propagated it using the leaf cutting method. Dead easy. Sparkling Burgundy is a selection of E.comosa so the seed is extremely unlikely to come true.