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Tag Archives: agapanthus
My plant of the moment in late July.
I was amazed when lots of buds suddenly popped up in the border by the driveway. I was delighted when they turned out to be buds of Agapanthus which I had bought many years ago and were being rather slow to … Continue reading
Singing the Blues.
There are three areas in the garden where interest is being held by all the blue flowers that there are. It doesn’t seem to matter what the neighbouring colours are, yellow, orange, pink or white, blue goes with them all.
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Tagged agapanthus, august bulbs, August flowers, blue Clematis, blue flowers, Blue Hydrangeas
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Where has August gone.
The month of August seems to have flown by with not much gardening getting done, due to the heat. The small amount of rain that we have had, has made no difference at all to the overall look of the … Continue reading
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Tagged agapanthus, Asters, bee and butterfly plants, bees, buddleia, butterflies, crocosmia, eupatorium, Evening primrose, kniphofia, Lilies, Penstemon, Rudbeckia, summer flowers, verbena bonariensis
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August Flowers. GBBD.
So far, August has been a bit mixed, weatherwise. We have had lots of hot sunshine but just a small amount of gentle rain which really hasn’t been enough to keep the garden looking happy or the water butts filled. … Continue reading
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Tagged acanthus, agapanthus, Anthemis, astibe, August flowers, buddleia, cardoon, clematis, Cyclamen, Erigeron, Fennel, filipendula, Honeysuckle, hydrangea, hypericum, kniphofia, lily, perovskia, roses, trachelospermum, verbena bonariensis
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August roundup.
Just thought I would do a quick whizz around the garden to record what is still in flower, found there was more than I had anticipated.
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Tagged Aeonium, agapanthus, Allium, Angelica, Anthemis, Arum, astilbe, Buddleja, clematis, Colchicum, Crepis incana, crocosmia, Cyclamen, Dahlia, Echinacae, Erigeron, Eupatorum, Evening primrose, Feverfew, Fuchsia, hydrangea, Inula, Japanese Anemone, Limonium, Liriope muscari, Penstemon, Rosa, Rudbeckia, Stipa, Tulbaghia, Verbascum, Verbena
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Agapanthus – you are beautiful.
My fickle heart turns to other flowers once all my lovely meconopsis have stopped flowering, and at the moment, in a deeper shade of blue are the wonderfully beautiful agapanthus.
All the Blues
As you may have guessed, blue is my favourite colour, so I try to have a fair proportion of blue flowers out as much as possible during the year.This clematis which has been out now for some time is C. … Continue reading
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Tagged agapanthus, campanula, clematis, echinops, geranium, hydrangea, violas
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Life after death
Sculpture in the garden is provided by the many seedheads that are left when flowering is over. Sometimes the seedheads are just as interesting as the flowers and they last a lot longer.
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Tagged Acer, agapanthus, Allium, Angelica, crocosmia, Evening primrose, Fennel, Nigella, poppies, Stipa gigantea.Phlomis
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Red alert
The first crocosmia to flower for us is Lucifer and what a wonderful one it is. I started off a few years ago with just 10 corms and now we seem to have hundreds! They really do make an imposing … Continue reading