WHAT'S LOOKING GOOD IN JULY 2021

[zigs]

June's thread here

 

[Sean Regan]

Clematis in a tub.

This one I only bought a couple of months ago. Giant lilies doing well. we've about 20 around the perimeter of our garden.

This euonymus has been on this fence for nearly 30 years. It's totally closed up the gap where we had the big conifer taken down two years ago.

I found this tall triangular metal plant stand in the garage. Can't remember what we bought it for, but I used it to support this clematis.

 

[Logan]

 

[Sean Regan]

At last!

A welcome change in the weather!

Always makes me think of this. An old favourite written in 1928, sung by Mrs Elvis Costello.

 

[zigs]

 

[Sheal]

A young Weigela 'Rubidor'

Sisyrinchium

Floribunda Rose 'Just For You'

 

[Sheal]

Oh, and I've just bought this - Cotoneaster 'Berried Treasure'.

 

[Logan]

 

[Logan]

This looks darker in real life

 

[Jewell]

When I moved a variety of perennials last year, nothing was blooming and I was simply trying to save as many plants as possible. Now the mix of hostas, day lilies, phlox, asters, speedwell, rudbeckia, hollyhock and other assorted plants are showing me what a crazy crowded garden my front yard has become. In the past I had much more space and plants were in groupings and not so patch work In nature. A bit chaotic but a great variety to sort out after I determine what all I “saved” from the areas that have been cleared. Maybe I can determine a plan for next year or just enjoy the wild abandonment of it all.

 

[Logan]

Oriental lilies

Gooseberries

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Rattlesnake Master

Gray-headed Coneflower

Purple Coneflower

Wild Bergamot

 

[the lawnsman]

the july patio has a little color going on.

 

[Logan]

 

[Logan]

Took these this morning, this is the side front haven't had time to deadhead the roses

This is the other way when I turn round on the spot

 

[Sean Regan]

I like hebes, they don't take much looking after.

There's ten here.

Couple of newer ones, may graduate to ceramic pots later.

This hydrangea suffered badly when we had that sharp frost three months back, which killed off all the buds, but it's "having another go." There's a couple of branches there which would lend themselves to layering. I've had success with doing that with azaleas in the past, so I might give it a go.

These rhodos have put on a good show of new growth, it does help if you dead-head them as soon as the blooms start to die off. The foliage is a good colour too. Thery don't get any special feed. I just blow some of the dead leaves that fall from next door's trees that end up on the lawn to the back of the bed and let them rot down.

The rhodos I "rescued" in Aldi last year, which were dying off in the store, as no one waters them, are repaying me for my kindness.

The lawn's not looking too bad, but a bit patchy, it might be cat pee. A bit of moss in the grass next to the brick edging under the acer in the foreground, but I gave it a dose of iron sulphate today. It just dies off, I don't even have to rake it out, it gets picked up by the mower over a few weeks.

 

[Logan]

They don't water them in the store because of safety.

 

[Sean Regan]

They don't water them in the store because of safety.

Yes, that's what they told me. I think it's because they haven't knowlegeable staff and they could chuck water everywhere. But it only needs a bit of common sense. I think I've mentioned that before when I first posted about them.

 

[Jewell]

The mosaic of perennials continues.

 

[Logan]

Yes, that's what they told me. I think it's because they haven't knowlegeable staff and they could chuck water everywhere. But it only needs a bit of common sense. I think I've mentioned that before when I first posted about them.

Perhaps that's where I remember it from but couldn't remember who.