Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day. July.

If you lived nearby , dear blogging friend and asked to come and see my garden today , I would look shifty and ask you whether you could come in a couple of workweek time . Or I might do a Ruth Draper and say ‘ Oh but you should have seen it a couple of calendar week ago . ’ I have blooms of course , we all do in July , but I am still mourn the rattling delights of the June garden and everything seems very flat , peculiarly after the extended time period of dispassion we had up until a few days ago . I was at Wisley last week and everything there looked stressed and uninteresting . There is nothing to excite me at the present moment . Everything here needs a haircut and most of my blush are crawling with pollen beetle . These little black bugs do n’t do any harm , but they are not photogenic .

How can anything compete with the roses which occupy my front garden in June?And I do n’t think I showed you my very own roseate children which at 6 or 7 years sure-enough flowered this year .

Seeedling from Wedding Day

Seeedling from Wedding Day

Seedling of Dorothy Perkins

strange parentage .

And nothing in blossom now can compare with the turmoil of myCardiocrinum giganteumwhich soared to 10 feet in elevation and then open its lovely white blossom far above my head .

Seeedling from Wedding Day

Cardiocrinum giganteum

Sorry , I seem to be chouse a bit , I am so reluctant to leave June behind . It is July Bloom Day . So let ’s have a look at what ’s out now . There are some things looking pretty even if they do n’t make the pulse raceAnthemis Tinctoria‘Sauce Hollandaise ’ makes a pleasing picture growing with the glaucous , blue allow ofBerberis temolaica .

Anthemis tinctoria‘Sauce Hollandaise ’ withBerberis temolaica

Seeedling from Wedding Day

Seeedling from Wedding Day

Next to it , amazinglyRosa‘Sally Holmes ’ is still going hard . None of my other roses can compete with it for ride out mightiness . I rather enjoy purple and orange together these daylight , specially at this time of the year . The following motion picture is composed of Kniphofias , and the Orange River bells ofPhygelius capensis . The tall skunk isStipa giganteawhich I make out and the purple is provided bySalvia nemorosa‘Caradonna ’ . The erect plant isVeronicastrum virginicum . The bell flush belong to toCampanula rapuculoideswhich is a awful trespassing plant , not to be recommended . I did n’t plant it and I am invariably draw it out . On the leftfield of the impression you may see there are buds to descend on the wonderfulRosa mutabiliswhich is generously break down to bloom again . To the rightfield of this chemical group , Cotinus coggyria‘Notcutt ’s Variety ’ is flower with its adorable smoke and in front of it is the late- flower Dutch honeysuckle , Lonicera periclymenum”Serotina’ . Round the terrace theLavendula‘Hidcote ’ hedgerow has gone rather angry and woolly due to bad pruning so I will take some cuttings and start again .

We still have blush wine , the ramblers are unremarkably later flowering than the climber . Here is ‘ The Garland ’ climbing up a crying pear , Pyrus salicifolia‘Pendula ’ in the front garden . It is just beginning to go over , but it has been lovely .

Rosa ‘ The Garland ’

go to develop up the ‘ Pink Knicker ’ cherry red tree isRosa‘Blush Rambler ’ which seems appropriate . Of course there are plenty of Clematis just now and I like the way the funny light-green and lily-white peak ofClematis‘Alba Luxuriens ’ luxuriate all over the spent rose . The Potato Vine , Solanum crispumis democratic with the bee although it does n’t excite me .

genus Solanum crispum

The front garden still reckon pretty . The highlight are the Angels ’ Fishing rood-tree , Dieramaswinging their dainty campana around all over . They are light from seed but they do n’t like to have their roots crowd together and I have establish them impossible to transfer .

Seedling of Dorothy Perkins

Seedling of Dorothy Perkins

Dierama

I also really love the pretty pinkGypsophila paniculatawhich is spreading its froth very generously over the worn out geranium . The pink self - seededLinariais a pure lucifer . But by July we have had enough of pinko and we crave stronger colours . I love blues at any meter of the year and there is plenty about just now . My favourite is the glossy , metal blue ofEryngium bourgatii‘Picos Blue ’ It has lovely , spiky , silver leaf .

Eryngium bourgatii ‘ Picos Blue ’

Unknown parentage.

Unknown parentage.

I have a minatory Wolf ’s Bane , Aconitum napelluswhich I treat with respect since reading last yr about the Hampshire nurseryman suffering from multiple electric organ failure and expiry after brush against it . I assume he must have had an open wound . The Romans used it to poison people .

Aconitum napellus

With the Aconite I raise tallCampanula lactiflora . The one at the back is ‘ Pritchards Variety ’ which is a lovely dark blue . Also growing here with the blues is a lovely colored Asiatic lily . ‘ Night Flyer ’ . It is such a dark red it is almost inglorious .

Cardiocrinum giganteum

Cardiocrinum giganteum

genus Lilium ‘ Night Flyer ’

Lovely wine redScabiosa‘Beaujolas Bonnets ’ seeds around and I jazz it .

Scabiosa ‘ Beaujoais Bonnets ’

Anthemis tinctoria ‘Sauce Hollandaise’ with Berberis temolaica

Anthemis tinctoria‘Sauce Hollandaise’ withBerberis temolaica

So do the butterfly . really prowl round the garden with my camera for today ’s Bloom Day has made me understand there still is plenty to enjoy . I have n’t even usher you all the annual making a show in the Winter Garden . So you’re able to number around to look at the garden if you like . And I promise not to say,‘You should have visualise itlast hebdomad ’ .

Please go over to Carol atMaydreamgardensand see what other citizenry have in flower for the July Bloom Day . And why not join in on the 15th of each month and show us what you are enjoying ?

57 Responses toGarden Bloggers’ Bloom Day. July.

You have plenty that is beautiful in your garden , I think that July is just as good a calendar month as June , just different . There are so many flowers that take over when the rose are give birth their rest , it is usually August when the garden here looks tired . You have lots of megrims and purpleness which are beautiful with a touch of Orange River to make them all sing !

There is certainly a lot to delight in your July garden ! I have intercourse all the megrims but my favorite may be that Solanum you force out – it ’s flowers make a bad splash than my own aboriginal California Solanum xanti .

I was wondering what those little fateful glitch were that are all over my flowers too – as you say , not very photogenic . I always think June is the in effect calendar month in the garden when everything looks so fresh , but nevertheless , some lovely bloomers in your garden right now in all hues .

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Well , I do n’t know – I think it look great in July , too ! Of naturally , your June roses were outstanding . But the Scabiosa , Lilies , and Eryngium are gorgeous , as well . Just adorable .

I gibe that there ’s something about walking around a garden with a camera that makes you see the looker or at least the sake that you might miss without it . But I can also apprise the sentiment of “ you should have seen it a month [ or two ] ago . Our heat , lack of rain , cloudless sky , and unintimidated sun have been wearing down even the bravest of my sun - hump plants . The blue and purpleness in your front garden are beautiful and so cooling to my centre . And the pigeonholing of the Cotinus with that marvellous Lonicera makes a really faint and lively compounding . Those ‘ Beaujolais Bonnets ’ Scabiosas are fabulous ! I ’m going right out ( when the heat breaks ) to see if I can find some around here .