July 2011 in the Northern Hemisphere

[Graham Catlow]

A few pics. from the garden today.

Penstemon, probably 'Raven'
Geranium pratense 'Plenum Violaceum'
Lewisia carousel hybrid
Lilium regale and a yellow Alstromeria
Lilium regale.

The garden was full of the L. regale scent this evening. It was quite outstanding.

[fermi de Sousa]

Lilium regale and a yellow Alstromeria
Lilium regale.

The garden was full of the L. regale scent this evening. It was quite outstanding.

Graham,
are the L. regale in the second pic the form called "Alba" as it doesn't have the reddish exterior? It looks very attractive.
cheers
fermi

[angie]

Lovely pictures and now that I have visited your garden I can visualise your planting. I see your bank of blue Geraniums are flowering and your Alstromeria also. It must be looking really good at this time.
It's heavy rain here today hope it's missed you.

Angie

[Graham Catlow]

Hi Fermi,
I have three of the pure white form 'Alba' and a dozen of the normal form.

Thanks Angie. Heavy showers today.

[Lvandelft]

Some more flowering here:

Lilium White Twinkle     
Anthericum ramosum                                 
Hemerocallis Nugget                                 
Lilium Landini                                               
Romneya coulteri                                     
Hosta Heideturm       a special Hosta, which flowers reach about two meter!!                             
Hosta Heideturm cl.                                     
Triosteum himalayanum
Hydrangea Annabelle
Lilium Citronella

[Lvandelft]

and another few:
                                     
Azorella trifurcata juli                                     
Hypericum frondosum Sunburst                         
Leucanthemum superbum Sunny Side Up                   
Berkheya purpurea cl.                                 
Berkheya purpurea                             
Campanula waldsteiniana
Satureja spinosa

[ruweiss]

Origanum plants enjoy sunshine and warm temperatures. The flowers last for a long
time and are a magnet for many insects.
Self sown seedlings occur at many places and almost all of them are hybrids.
Bought the Orig. spec as O. microphyllum but am not sure about this name and would
be glad about the identification.
O.rotundifolium is from wild collected Turkish seeds.

[Lesley Cox]

Was the Orig. spec. the one I said I though could be amanum Luit? On second thoughts I think it is a hybdrid maybe including some amanum in it, but compared with the first picture which is DEFINITELY amanum, it does look less like amanum.

[Brian Ellis]

One or two things in the garden before the rain came!
Lilium wardii lankongense (thanks Arisaema must have muddled the labels in the pots)
One whose name I have forgotten  
Lilium Golden Splendour group
Lilium Bright Star

[arisaema]

That's unfortunately L. lankongense, not wardii, still lovely but quite common and somewhat weedy.

[Brian Ellis]

Cheers Arisaema I've changed the original, the plant was growing out of the bottom of the pot and I must have either labelled them wrongly or looked at the wrong pot in my haste

[meanie]

I thought that I'd posted this already - Salvia discolor.

[Tim Ingram]

I've always grown quite a number of oddball plants and so a few examples that look good just now. Asclepias speciosa; I find the flowers of this and related genera completely fascinating, and here they complement the foliage so well even if they don't last too long. Morina longifolia; I suppose well known by many gardeners now but when I first saw it I did a double take, and there is still nothing else quite like it. Berkheya multijuga; perhaps a 'thistle' by which all other thistles should be judged against!! (notwithstanding the Scotch Thistle!). This is a Drakensberg species which has steadily made a more and more formidable specimen in the garden over the past few years - though perhaps is let down by its bright yellow flowerheads. And finally the rather extraordinary, beautiful and surprisingly hardy Impatiens tinctoria, which is flowering especially well this year perhaps as a result of the long warm and dry spring we have had.

[Brian Ellis]

Lovely Morina Tim, we first saw it at Calke Abbey where the gardener told us that the Victorians used it as a bedding plant.  We've grown it ever since, I like the way the flowers change colour when they have been fertilized (in embarrassment?), I have been on the lookout for M.persica but I don't think there is much difference between the two.

[ichristie]

Hi all, some wondeful plant pictures and such a lot that I have never heard about. We have had monsoon rain this week which spoils flowers but here are two pictures Roscoea humeana Alba and Lilium grayi, cheers Ian the Christie kind