August 2014 in the Northern Hemisphere

[Giles]

Dianthus x isensis is said to be a hybrid between D.longicalyx and D.chinensis.
It is apparently one of the traditional 'cult'/hobby plants in Japan: https://www.flickr.com/search?text=%E4%BC%8A%E5%8B%A2%E6%92%AB%E5%AD%90&sort=relevance

[Giles]

And this: http://www.kamoltd.co.jp/kakegawa/nadeshi.html

[Maggi Young]

Great links, Giles, than you.  A touch of the Dianthus  crossed with a Tillandsia, or even "Cousin Ittt" .....

[Mike Ireland]

Dicentra Macrocapnos is trying to take over the garden this year, now covers two acers & a pollarded wisteria.

[Robert]

Back from town.  What crazy weather this year! 41c a few days ago. More monsoonal moisture and teased with a few drops of rain. The mountains and the Northern Sacramento Valley had good rainfall.  Now it is 24c for the high temperature.

Here's a Salvia that is looking good now and has proven to be fully hardy in all three gardens that I've had it in - "Black and Blue"...............

'Black and Blue' is the hardiest Salvia guaranitica type for us. I've tried others. I think that I will try again as I have better methods worked out now to keep them through the winter without using a greenhouse.



Summer annual season has finally arrived. Better late than never.

Salvia cocconea ' Brenthurst'



Generic red Tropaeolum majus.

[arilnut]

I vote foe Cousin Ittt

John B

Great links, Giles, than you.  A touch of the Dianthus  crossed with a Tillandsia, or even "Cousin Ittt" .....

[fermi de Sousa]

I vote foe Cousin Ittt

John B

Tiny Tim?
(problematic that there is a dwarf dianthus by that name!)
cheers
fermi

[ruweiss]

Ranunculus vaginatus flowers for the first time for me.
J. Jurasek collected the seed in Bosnia, Vranica at 1700m.

[ruweiss]

More plants flowering now:

[Maggi Young]

Your garden is looking lovely, Rudi. A lovely place to sit and enjoy the flowers.

[Lesley Cox]

If you need to cool down Robert, have a quick look at the August in the Southern Hemisphere thread.

[Robert]

Rhododendron prunifolium - stressed from the drought.



More R. prunifolium - a fairly good color form, but again not liking the drought conditions.

[meanie]

Dicentra Macrocapnos is trying to take over the garden this year, now covers two acers & a pollarded wisteria.

I was thinking about getting some seed for that, but I'm reconsidering that idea now! Lovely looker though.


Tricyrtis "Tojen" in bloom today.....................

[Matt T]

Dicentra Macrocapnos is trying to take over the garden this year, now covers two acers & a pollarded wisteria.

At first glance I read that as covering "two acres"... Now that would be taking over!

[Lesley Cox]

I read exactly the same thing Matt. Actually I thought, on re-rereading that Mike had transposed the letters, as I often do myself. Sorry Mike.