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.