The rain has stopped and the sun has arrived with the temperatures rising, time for the plants to get used to a change! I will have to be out early, probably before breakfast, to be able to get any physical work done, yesterday I was out in my pjs, just hope the neighbours were still in bed, but I’m sure the cows in the field next door didn’t mind! Time for SOS……………..
Camassia.
The white camassias are looking rather nice at the moment, in between the Iceberg roses, which will soon be in flower as long as the roe deer doesn’t come and prune them for me!
These camassias have spread nicely, so when they have finished flowering I can move some of them to further up the garden.
Yellow Rattle.
Yellow Rattle has spread nicely in the meadow, from the seed that was sprinkled from my own plants that flowered last year.
I must save the seed again to sprinkle when the grass is cut in August. I can see that the grass isn’t as strong as it was in some areas, so will target the areas where it is rather too long for the wild flowers.
Rosa Liverpool Hope.
Rosa Liverpool Hope, here just opening up one of its first buds, looks rather like a hybrid tea rose at this stage.
Here it is fully open and looking very different and rather beautiful, with a delicious perfume.
Iris latifolia.
Iris latifolia is commonly known as the English Iris. This is another plant that has already been split and I think it is now ready to be split again.
This can go up to the top of the garden where I am redoing the border, it is taking me rather a long time, but I will get there in the end. There is a white variety so must try and find that one to go with it.
Clematis Romantica.
Clematis Romantica is flowering on the pergola and has lots of buds following on.
Philadelphus coronarius Aureus.
Super shrub with an amazing perfume, Philadelphus coronarius Aureus. This plant never fails to stop me in my tracks as I go whizzing by.
I last showed you Acer Osakazuki when she had tiny flowers a short while ago, now she is sporting hundreds of tiny seed pods. I will keep my eye on them and hopefully sow some of them in the future.
I seem to have one too many photos, just have to hope I’ll be excused! Yesterday was too hot for me to work in the garden once the sun had come up over the trees and I can see that it will be the same for the next week, once again my shady borders will be getting all the attention so that I can stay cool! Thanks to Jim at Garden Ruminations for hosting once more, do pay him a visit if you enjoy gardening as much as we do.
My white and dark blue camassias are flowering now, the pale blue ones over. I’m still not keen on the foliage which tends to get brown patches. When I decided to make my lawn more of a wild flower lawn I also scattered yellow rattle. Not much appeared, but I scattered the seeds last year and now have yellow rattle popping up in the gravel path! Not quite where I wanted it. In fact the path is almost a gravel garden with all the bits and bobs self-seeded there!
I also have the pale blue Camassias which were over a long time ago, the white ones seem to flower for longer. My gravel areas too are a lovely seed bed for all sorts, its amazing what pops up there, at the moment I have about 40 primroses that need moving!
I think I prefer the white Camassias to the pale blue one I have – very pretty indeed. My mum had a Philadelphus coronarius Aureus in the front garden of the house we lived in as young children before we moved – the fragrance was wonderful.
Yes, I agree Graeme, I like the white Camassias more than the pale blue, which wer over a long time ago. Glad you have happy memories of the golden Philadelphus, it certainly has a marvellous perfume.
I love Camassias, too! I wasn’t familiar with Yellow Rattle–how fun, and thanks for sharing. I mean, everything you’ve shared here is wonderful. 🙂
Thanks Beth, hopefully the yellow rattle will decrease the energy of all the grass and give the wild flowers more of a chance in the meadow.
The white camassias really are beautiful, I saw some for sale yesterday and resisted, now I wish I hadn’t!
Oh dear Helen, never mind, you can always plant some in the autumn!
Lovely camassias, I wish they lasted a bit longer. The Iris latifolia are lovely, they look rather like Iris sibirica. Great to establish Yellow Rattle well done.
Yes Liz, I agree they don’t seem to last very long in flower, such a shame.The yellow rattle is coming on, we have more plants this year so hopefully next year will see more again.
I don’t know if the white camassias bloom later than the blue ones. I think so…, because mine ( blue ones) are over for a long time. Beautiful photo of the irises, with the morning due /or rain when you took the picture?
My pale blue Camassias flower earlier than the white ones Fred, but I believe that the smaller dark blue ones are flowering now, they were very evident at Chelsea last week! I think the Iris was photographed on Wednesday when a sea mist came in overnight, before the heat started, the moisture must have been from that.
I was out in my PJs, too, potting up some plants for the front before 7am this morning! Unfortunately my new neighbour is also an early riser, so she probably saw me.
Love the clematis, and that iris is wonderful. I think we may have a similar one but will have to wait until next spring to check.
That is one way to meet your new neighbour Kathrin, maybe she is a keen gardener too! I’m very pleased with the iris, it increases nicely so can be spread around the garden wherever it needs a bit of blue.
I love the clematis…..I will make buying one my big purchase for the garden this year, because they are really expensive in our garden centres. I have had a climbing frame in storage for a number of years just for the introduction of one into the garden. The Iris are also lovely…well everything is actually!
Yes Cath, you must have a clematis, I wouldn’t be without all mine! Most of mine flower later, pruning group 3, so that I have plenty of colour from July to the frosts.
Ha ha, I often fo pyjama gardening. I live in the country and can mostly get away with it! Just my neighbours sheep to see me. The bud of your rose is particularly beautiful. I love a rose that does great buds! Your Iris latifoloa is amazing! 💙
I too am in the country Sarah, with cows one side and a neighbour quite a long way with lots of trees between us, so I think I too hopefully, can’t be seen. The roses are all starting to flower which makes the garden very colourful and smells delightful!
Ha, I’m seeing all these SoS posts about dividing irises and looking guiltily at my own feral sprawl. There are just always so many of them… sigh…
It’s so easy Angela, when they have finished flowering just get a spade and cut a portion out of your clump, then replant elsewhere, watering it in. If you don’t divide them you will find that they die out in the centre, so be brave!