Saturday, 11 July 2020

June 2020 Lockdown Virtual Garden Opening

Replacing the customary village garden opening in summer, here are garden photos for June. See the previous post for May photos.
The  back garden, featuring an ancient apple tree

Penstemon Strawberry and Cream

Rambling roses begin


Honeysuckle

Front lawn, with golden India Bean Tree and black leaved Sambucus nigra (black elder) in flower

The flowers are pink, by the way, cameras are unhelpful souls.

Rose Paul's Himalayan Musk growing through the apple tree

Early day lilies (hemerocallis)

Rose, seedling of Kiftsgate

Buddleija globosa


Kniphofia 

Tree anemone (white, botanical name carpenteria) with the first of the bottlebrush flowers.

Tree anemone flower.

Philadephus

Variegated  philodelphus gracilis (graceful)

Rose Rambling Rector.

Honeysuckle Geofrey Davidson

Roses: Paul's Himalayan Musk (foreground) and seedling of Kiftsgate (behind)

Kiftsgate seedling (front, by the road) with pink/purple bush rose in front.

Salvia 'Royal Bumble

 The pine-like leaves of the bottlebrush callistemon pinifolius

The broader leaves of callistemon citrinus, 'like lemon'


Rosa Mundi, with blue siberian iris.


Other roses



White rosebay

The front lawn is mostly cinquefoil, wild potentilla. It keeps it green in drought.


Peony


Angelica


Mallow in foreground, tree anenome in background, with bottlebrush beyond

Clematis 'Tie Dye'


Honeysuckle in foreground, tree anemone in the background with bottlebrush


Visitor

Geranium foreground, yellow phygelius background

Kiftsgate rose, seedling


bottlebrush and tree anemone

Variegated philodelphus gracilis



Water lily

Honeysuckle

Yellow honeysuckle ('Roy Davidson')

Penstemon 'Strawberries and Cream'

Penstemon 'Sours Grapes' foreground

Potentilla 'Goldfinger'

Salvia 'Icing Sugar' 

Geranium, wild sown tall variety

Yellow phygelius 

Giant scabious, flower spikes up to 3 metres. 

Salvia 'Royal Bumble'

Country Rose 'Hampshire', flowers for at least 6 months

Phjygelius capensis, the colour slight more orange than shown 

Penstemon isophylus

Astilbe

Two hemerocallis, Day Lilies, both 'spider' types


Salvia 'Icing Sugar'

Rose 'Rambling Rector' at the enterance to the tunnel


Phygelius x rectus 'Winchester Fanfare 

Mallow, favorite colour

Clematis


Penstemon 'Dark Tower'

Clematis Alba Luxurians


Rose

The tree Indigofera


Pink salvia

Clematis 'Tie Dye'



Mimulus, for bogs

Perennial sweat pea


Rose 'Marquarade, ages from yellow to red


White corydalis from Darwin's garden, Down House (with permission)

Salvia 'Hot Lips'

Penstemon 'Mother of Plearl' (blue tinge not visible here)


Penstemon Fujiyama (not pink enough here)

Blue geranium front, lavender behind

Salvia 'Royal Bumble' x2


Bottlebrush x 2


Curry Plant

Callicarpus

Lavender

Penstemon 'Raven'

Put these ribes odorata into water, three rooted

The first lily

And later another

A frequent poppy

White corydalis

Penstemons