June 2015 in the Northern Hemisphere

[Maggi Young]

Wow- that's what I call well-flowered!

[Maggi Young]

a few 'older' garden plants enchanting the senses

an old rose from my wife's parents garden and an almost double philadelphus.  Not only lovely to see, but both sweetly perfumed.

I can imagine the lovely fragrance.   The Philadelphus is a pretty form - lovely shape to the flowers.

[latestart]

Some of the flowering shrubs in the garden at the moment.I CR the names of the plants in photos 2 and 3 but they were bought at Suntrap which was a NTS garden on the west side of Edinburgh. Names would be appreciated.

[meanie]

Some of the flowering shrubs in the garden at the moment.I CR the names of the plants in photos 2 and 3 but they were bought at Suntrap which was a NTS garden on the west side of Edinburgh. Names would be appreciated.

Three looks like Crinodendron hookerianum to me.

[meanie]

Diplarrena morea is about a month late this year. It really is one of my favourites.................

[latestart]

Thank you Meanie it is Crinodendron hookerianum. I do like that Diplarrena morea. I am discovering so many new plants since I joined this forum.

[meanie]

I am discovering so many new plants since I joined this forum.

Me too.

[Carolyn]

Some of the flowering shrubs in the garden at the moment.I CR the names of the plants in photos 2 and 3 but they were bought at Suntrap which was a NTS garden on the west side of Edinburgh. Names would be appreciated.

I think the second photo is ozothamnus rosmarinifolius - should have russet coloured buds, opening white.

[latestart]

Thank you Carolyn. I googled the name and I think that is correct. I like both of these shrubs very much as they are a wee bit different. I do remember that the pink buds do open to white flowers. There was also a pink 'opening to pink' version at Suntrap but I never saw it for sale.

[Steve Garvie]

Dicentra peregrina "Hien"


Nomocharis aperta ex CLD229

[Robert]

In our garden - The first flower on Rudbeckia californica this season (many more to come). In the wild, this species is generally found near springs and seeps at the higher elevations of the Sierra Nevada, California. I do not consider it xeric, however I have been surprised how well it has done in our garden with minimal irrigation and the 38 c + or - heat. Last year it received frequent irrigation - this season it receives irrigation when I can get to it , which is not too often.

[meanie]

Two terrific images Steve!

What I would give for 38°c Robert - I had the woodburner going all day yesterday.

[Jupiter]

You think you'd like 38°C but I know what that's like, and I know what 40 - 41 - 42 and even 43°C are like. There's nothing nice about it at all. You watch your garden crisp and singe and burn and shrivel and all you can do watch and hope for the best. Humans burn too, especially English tourists who think it's fun to sit on the beach in the sun, and get carted away in ambulances with heatstroke. 

[meanie]

You think you'd like 38°C but I know what that's like, and I know what 40 - 41 - 42 and even 43°C are like. There's nothing nice about it at all. You watch your garden crisp and singe and burn and shrivel and all you can do watch and hope for the best. Humans burn too, especially English tourists who think it's fun to sit on the beach in the sun, and get carted away in ambulances with heatstroke. 

I know too - it is the main thing that I miss about Oz. I cannot deny though that the Coober Pedy heat was preferable to three months of Cairns summer humidity 
As far as the garden goes I was only there for fifteen months so never really set any roots down. The closest I came was the six months I spent in Sydney but that was an apartment.
We could do a house swap - you come here for our winter and I can take your summer 

[Robert]

You think you'd like 38°C but I know what that's like, and I know what 40 - 41 - 42 and even 43°C are like. There's nothing nice about it at all. You watch your garden crisp and singe and burn and shrivel and all you can do watch and hope for the best. Humans burn too, especially English tourists who think it's fun to sit on the beach in the sun, and get carted away in ambulances with heatstroke. 

Jamus,

I have to agree with you. 38 c is tame around here. I think I remember, maybe it was July 1988, when it was 38 c or more everyday for most of the month. Just about all the plants fried in the sun. With conifers and some other evergreens it took years for them to grow and repair the damage. Other plants just gave up.

These days I have an appreciation for plants that are resilient to heat, drought, and unfortunately some degree of my neglect.

I wish that I could say that it was only the tourist that were foolish enough to sit around on the beach and get fried by the sun. Around here the saying about mad dogs and Englishmen would have to include some of the "mad" locals. I see plenty of people with messed up skin from sitting on the beach all day during the summer year after year.