July in the Northern Hemisphere

[shelagh]

The final 5.

The Monkey Puzzle had obviously had wonderful flowers.

The Lime was so full of flower that in the gentle breeze it was creating it's own snowstorm.

Sorry they were not labelled but I am a sucker for wonderful majestic trees.

[Brian Ellis]

It's taken some six years, but at last we have a flower spike on Acanthus diosoridis var perringii, very small when it was bought so I'm not surprised as it is very slow growing, from North Africa and it is only about 35 cm tall.  Will it now flower every hot summer - I hope so!  We first saw it on a visit to Hampshire in a garden in Poole, obviously more suited to the hotter south!

[Jeffnz]

Acanthus mollis can root from the smallest piece of root,  does the same apply to this species?

[Brian Ellis]

Acanthus mollis can root from the smallest piece of root,  does the same apply to this species?

I'll have to have a go

[Jeffnz]

I discovered this feature when trying to rid my garden of the species, in the end I resorted to a glycophosphate systemic weed killer.

[Brian Ellis]

Well having tried to get rid of Acanthus in a border for nigh on 20 years I can understand that!  That's why this one is pot grown

[johnw]

Nine big flowering spikes coming on Beschorneria septentrionalis.  Hopefully we can cross the dwarf with the type and get seed after a year of non-flowering.  Likely a banner year for Agapanthus 'Summer Skies' as spikes are just erupting.


johnw

[meanie]

Meanie,

you always show a lot of choice plants

Strangely that is what I think of everyone else on this forum 

Anyway, a few more choice (hopefully) plants;
Aconitum volubile.................


As you can see it is trying to compete with Eccromocarpus scaber. That is a bit of a tough ask as E.scaber is an absolutely prolific bloomer...........


Digitalis laevigata.............


Salvia coccinea.............


Echeveria cante is not a plant for outdoors as it has a powdery bloom that gives it its ghostly appearance.................




Echinopsis subnudentata............


And finally my Lantana camara which survived an overnight low of -5°c last winter...............

[ruweiss]

The final 5.

The Monkey Puzzle had obviously had wonderful flowers.

Shelagh, thank you for showing us these beautiful old majestic trees.
Is there any information about the age of this Monkey Puzzle? The cones
show, that this is a male plant. Attached are 2 pictures from the Wilhelma
Garden at Stuttgart of a female plant. The third picture shows our 25 year
old plant, still a baby, but to our amazement it formed for the first time 3
cones which showed clearly that we own a girl.

[johnw]

A splendid Echeveria cante there meanie.  That one would surely land a first ribbon.


I'm trying to coax along 2 temperamental E. laui....


johnw

[astragalus]

Crevice garden quiet at themoment with a few exceptions. Most of the daphnes are starting to rebloom despite heat, drought and humidity.

[Maggi Young]

Your Thalictrum kiusianum looks to be making a nice clump, Anne -  it never seems to persist well here.

[astragalus]

Maggi, it's really spreading here. It's planted at the "last outcrop" as understory for hellebores. It's where I also tried to establish Erinus alpinus. It never seeded itself and never came back after blooming its head off.

[Maggi Young]

Maybe we just need to  persevere!  we had a bit of a job to get Erinus properly established too - we are hopeful now  that we have more colours.... we'll see!

[Michael J Campbell]

Thuja orientalis 'Aurea Nana, Planted in1952 and 240cm high now.