Continuing my monthly diary of the garden.
On the TV weather this evening Daren Bett has just announced “there’s something wrong with the weather at the moment” and I have to agree with him. Most of my garden posts have started with the same complaint. In the last few days we have experienced, in a random order, everything it can throw at us. The winds today made photography of my poor flowers difficult and its getting to the end of the month.
The Hostas which give good leaf colour all season also produce stately flowers.
In amongst them grows the everlasting pearl white flowers of Anaphalis triplinervis Summer Snow, aptly named.
Another unusual white flower appears in my pond – Houttuynia cordata ‘Plena’
My geraniums continue to flower and Buxton’s Blue is showy this month.
The Japanese anemones have started flowering and will produce blooms for the next month or so.
This hydrangea hovers between pink and blue…
… whereas this lace cap is a lovely shade of white.
Far more brash is Crocosmia ‘lucifer’.
and this orange/pink Phlox
In my Monkey Puzzle tree grows Clematis ‘Praecox’ which always draws comments from passing pedestrians as it hangs out into the road.
Blues still dominate the colour schemes
A delicate shrub is flowering with pea like flowers, Indigofera pseudotinctoria from China.
Whilst elsewhere some of the showy yellow flowers of summer are beginning to dominate parts of the borders Inula hookeri and Lysimachia ‘Firecracker’
Lets hope for a drier warmer August to bring out those colours.