What's looking good in June 2012

For Jenny and Sally :ktykss:

 

Despite the poor Summer so far, and here it has been very cool and cloudy, everyones' gardens on here seem to be a riot of colour and it all looks great.

Geranium (Pelargonium) Maverick Star.

Fuchsia Gartenmeister Bondstat, first flowers.



Kniphophia Flamenco.


Calla Picasso.


Perilla Magilla and a small Begonia Gryphon.

 

Strongy,
I have a confession that I feel I must make. The pictures I take and delete and retake etc. are the best bits of my garden.
I don't show you the worst bits!
Maybe we should start an UGH thread to "come clean" - nothing like a healthy confession to make you feel good after!!

 

Some more crazy additions from me before July has arrived:

Allium 'Hair'

First dahlia (I don't remember where I got it from. Moreover, it was tagged as a pink-white stripe low-height variety... I've messed the colour combinations again.)



Hemerocallis 'Moonlit masquerade'





Lily Oriental 'Black Out'


'Entrapment' daylily



Geranium 'Dalmaticum'

 

Thank you Angelina,
a delightful collection. Like the hardy geraniun very much.

 

Is it scented Armandii?

 

Crikey I haven't been on this thread for a few days soooo many lovely pictures, that Alliums amazing Angelina, love it and the daylilies of course , I had a scape on the one you sent me and was so excited but we have a gang of magpies in the garden, they're so badly behaved, caught them pecking a squirrel the other day, although he soon saw them off , they've pecked the scapes off loads of my daylilies including yours , hopefully there's still time for it to send up another, don't know why they do it , unless they think the buds look like beaks !!!!!
Here's a few things from my garden today

Deutzia 'Strawberry Fields' a new shrub last year, love it.

Nepeta 'Blue Infinity' quite a tall one at 4ft

Phlomis Tuberosa

Unknown rose, any ideas welcome

Salvia 'Bulleyana' a new plant last year, hoping it sets seed so I can grow lots more.

 

Oh, simbad, sorry about your daylilies!
I haven't got the slightest idea about the rose, but here's a mystery, which has just occured in my garden:

These bloomed where I have planted crocosmias in the spring of 2011, but no flowering occurred in summer. If I could trace my purchases correctly, I had ordered Schizostylis coccinea 'Rosea', which had to be red (?!?) and bloom in 'late summer'.
It looks amazingly delicate and beautiful in 'late June', but what am I growing?





The leaves, height and structure of the budding stem resemble those of crocosmia, this is why I couldn't differentiate between them last year:

 

"Pink" ??

Leaves look like Crocosmia so could be mistaken one-for-t'other

 

I'm an idiot. It should have been 'rubra' instead.
But my dull memories are associated with RED flowers in the catalogue pictures, when I was choosing it.

Thanx a million, Kristen!

 

Come on, Jenny and Shiney, quality vs. quantity!
The less nice pics we show, the more finely discriminative and sophisticated we've become.