August 2015 in the Northern Hemisphere

[jomowi]

Summer border at Abbottsford, home of Sir Walter Scott in the Scottish Borders

[Maggi Young]

That's a lovely scene, Maureen.

[Roma]

Calendar picture, Maureen?

Lovely warm, sunny day yesterday but raining and miserable today so I'll catch up with posting a few pictures.

Crepis incana covering a bit too much ground now.  Looked good yesterday but quite bedraggled now
Cyananthus integer x sherriffi getting a bit squashed by Erica arborea 'Estrella Gold'
Two nice colour combinations
Iris setosa with Antirrhinum braun-blanquetii
Geum 'Mai Tai' with Stachys officinalis

[Roma]

Runner Beans - I grow them for the flowers, beans are a bonus

Two from the greenhouse
Silene californica - I was so pleased to grow it to flowering size last year.  Both plants are still alive and now sharing a larger pot
Clematis repens

[fleurbleue]

Stunning Clematis ! 

[François Lambert]

Placed near a wall facing South-East, Hedychium Coccineum flowers about a month earlier than in previous years - although the fact that the plant has gained strenght may also help as well as the rather warm & sunny previous months.

[Maggi Young]

Placed near a wall facing South-East, Hedychium Coccineum flowers about a month earlier than in previous years - although the fact that the plant has gained strenght may also help as well as the rather warm & sunny previous months.

Are the plants taken under cover for the winter, François ?

[jomowi]

Calendar picture, Maureen?

Yes, I was pleased with the pic, but the sky was a bit gloomy to make the grade for a calendar picture.
Seeing your veg. pics, Roma, here are some heritage variety peas that we grow in the historic garden of Annet House, where I go gardening.

1. Scotch pea. The flowers grow in a cluster on fasciated stems which holds them rigid.  I am told that this fasciation only occurs in Scotland, so presumably a climatic influence.
2. Nain Mangetout de Beurre
3. Carouby de Mousson
4. Sweet pea Matucana cupani

[jomowi]

More info on the Lathyrus matucana/cupani shown in the above post can be found on http://www.lathyrus.info/sweetpeas/cupani.html

[François Lambert]

Are the plants taken under cover for the winter, François ?

Hi Maggy,

Like so many of my plants I grow them in large pots.  Last winter I stored the pots in the barn where they only experienced mild frost.  If the weather had gone too cold I always have the possibility to cover the pots with a thick lawer of straw of 2 bales of straw , which must be something like a3 to 4 feet thick blanket of straw, enough to preserve them from frost.

Right now the only "exotics" I grow in the open are some Eucomis and some crinum and 2 banana trees.

[Maggi Young]

Right now the only "exotics" I grow in the open are some Eucomis and some crinum and 2 banana trees.

Ohh! 

[Catwheazle]

They are now starting to bloom only. However first time flowering this year: Rhodothamnus chamaecistus.
Bought many years ago as a seedling (Arctic Alpine Garden Chemnitz).
Grows very slowly, but probably from year to year better :-)

Bernd

[Maggi Young]

Truly an aristocratic plant, Bernd. Slow, but worth  the wait!

[ruweiss]

Flowering now:
Eucomis bicolor
Albuca shawii
Hibiscus moscheutos
Lilium rosthornii
Lilium speciosum rubrum

[ruweiss]

More pictures:
Origanum dictamnus
Origanum Hybrid
Veratrum formosanum
Zephyranthus robusta