WHAT'S LOOKING GOOD IN JUNE 2020

[DrMike27]

I was about to brag about my ‘monster’ zucchinis but @David from Dothan clearly won that match! I’ve grown 2 in the last week that were both 12+ inches long and weighing in at about 20-22oz each.

Pumpkin patch is looking good. By no means do I claim to have ‘big hands,’ but I can palm a basketball and my Dill’s Atlantic leaves are already bigger than that. Planted my pumpkins on May 8.

 

[zigs]

 

[oneeye]

Is this abnormal or has someone ever grown these type of sunflowers? I think its about 18 ft plus and still growing. Hasn't even flowered yet. Its growing as high as my pecan tree.

 

[Logan]

My birthday is June 10,would love for someone to send me some flowers.

My son's birthday is on the 10th of June, here's some flowers for you.

 

[Logan]

The first of my roses

 

[zigs]

Dryad's saddle

 

[zigs]

Open wide

 

[zigs]

Echevaria

 

[Logan]

Some self sown annual poppies

 

[Sean Regan]

These are four of the five £7.99 rhodos I bought in Aldi as they were in March.

They've since all flowered and come on a treat. I'll eventually have to thin them out by removing two and finding another home for them.



Our matching sets of three different hebes in their pots in wooden troughs. These used to be situated either side of the tea-house steps, but no one saw them down there other than me. So now they're on the steps to the new patio.

The two "indoor Christmas roses" bought in flower, by a friend as a Chistmas present for my wife.

I potted them out in January after they died off.

There's masses of buds on therm.

Stella cherries won't be long now. The birds will be working out how to get at them.

Our little acer palmatum taylor is really coming into its own now with more contrast in the colours and the leaves growing larger.

The recent rain has done the lawn a power of good.

Our squirrel keeps trying to bury peanuts we leave out for her in her feeder, in the tree azalea pots. She's always chucking compost out.

 

[zigs]

 

[zigs]

The "Gate into Field" Elder is flowering

And more from the "Chocolate Marzipan" Elder...

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Rocky Mountain Penstemon has looked great all month!

 

[zigs]

 

[Sean Regan]

Here's the "Christmas roses" I mentioned before that came in 4" pots as a present for my wife. I rescued them in January when they'd died off and re-potted them.
They've done me proud.

I'll have to sort these hebes out in the autumn


The one on the right

and the one on the left were of the three that survived from the year before last. The two others in each trough were new this year.

The third was this one I put in the rockery, I really wanted them "matching," so I'll swop this over with the blue one late in the year. But I've just noticed it's got two blue blooms in the middle!