WHATS LOOKING GOOD IN JULY 2019

Nice Upsy......very, very nice
Like your planting schemes and layout.
Couple of plants I covet there.....the dead of night me’thinks :rasp:

 

Looking good @Verdun and @Upsydaisy

 

You like my planting schemes @Verdun !!!!
Thank you so much!!! Wow you've made my day!!.

Hubs always reckons I just bung things in.....which between you and me is completely correct! He knows me well.

Have to say that I do actually shock myself at times at how surprisingly good things turn out.

My bug bear is that some plantings grow bigger than they should and end up in the wrong looking position....can't take any credit for that ,I don't do anything to them


I'm so chuffed!! I have planned to read up on planting schemes during the winter, as I always like to learn something garden related during the gloomy days!

 

Thanks @Logan

 

G.

 

Convulvulus



Lilies









Leucanthemum





Hemerocallis



Sempervivum



Penstemon



Coreopsis

 

Salvias







Dianthus



Rose



Fuchsia



Tradescantias





Agrostemma



Dahlia

 

I'm really pleased with these. One of my favourite flowers is the annual Rudbeckia 'Rustic Dwarf Mixed'. Easy to grow from seed, they flower reliably throughout the summer and the mix usually contains mostly plain yellow, with various shades of red and bronze enhancing the yellow on some flowers.

I do prefer the mixed colour flowers, so last year I saved seed from some of the best ones and used them for this year's sowing. Of course, the beauty of growing from saved seed is waiting to see all the variations you get when the flowers open. Here is a selection of some of the lovely variants this year's sowing has produced.















They look equally good en masse too.

 

Impressive aren’t they Trunky?
Esp en masse

 

Fabulous pics @Trunky , stunning variants.

 

Very nice @Trunky
I always had trouble with slugs and snails with rudeckia so i stopped growing them.

 

There has been a lot of talk recently about lily beetle but I have had weeks now of lilies flowering everywhere without lily beetle damage
Not the best of them by any means but these lilies are taller than I am....a 6 footer....without being tree lily types. Although many lilies were sprayed here earlier in the year, these were not so I think controlling numbers elsewhere limits their effect throughout.

 

@pete - it's nice to see your E.cante in bloom It's a week or two ahead of mine this year.

I've just executed two - one on L.lancifolium and the other on Tricyrtis 'Tojen'. Last week I found one on a Roscoea which is a member of the Ginger family!

A slightly snatched shot from yesterday of my second Echinopsis to bloom - E.subdenudata..........

Commelina tuberosa.................


Alstroemeria 'Inticancha' (a dwarf Alstro that has proven hardy)................

 

My Cante is about to flower...maybe even later today
Thanks to Pete or longk who recommended this one to me last year

 

Last year hubby cut this right back to make it flower better.