After a week of rain, wind and sunshine, mostly rain, my meadow has flopped, C. Lucifer has flopped as the gardener took my supports for something else and didn’t put them back! and the orchid has now finished flowering but I can’t find any seed unfortunately. Today seems to be nice and sunny so hopefully it will stay that way.Even so I managed to find some nice new flowers for you.
Hemerocallis or Day Lilies are starting to flower around the garden, they make a nice splash of colour.
I can’t remember the names of all my day lilies, it could be Gentle Shepherd or maybe not?
This Hydrangea seems to be thinking of changing colour after being here for about 20 yrs! The bush has been pink as long as I can remember it but some of the flower heads are definitely not pink any more!
I have bought 3 new hydrangeas for up in my newish bit, these are definitely blue, and I hope they stay that way.
The spirea by the back door is full of flowers now, the birds hide in here before coming to the feeder, to check the coast is clear for them.
Hypericum prolificum is covered in its tiny flowers at the moment. The flowers are ever so small but there are thousands of them on my bush/small tree.
Malva moschata alba which has decided to grow up by the pergola. I was given one many years ago and never been without it since. It very gently seeds around and I am always glad to see it again each year.
Two more new clematis for me, this is C Aromatica which I bought hoping for a beautiful perfume, but so far can’t smell anything nice. hopefully it will come as it gets older!
This is Clematis Romantica which I think is rather lovely. I have it growing with Rosa New Dawn up one of the posts on the pergola, they go well together.
There we have my six for this week, I will be missing next week but will catch up with you all later. Many thanks to Jim at Garden Ruminations and I hope you all have a wonderful gardening weekend while I will be watching the tennis and maybe the football!
Lovely hydrangea, the blue is a wonderful colour.
You have exactly the colour of the hydrangea flowers that I have around here, we must have the same soil. I really like to finish the last clematis flower, a dark colour like I love
Lovely Hydrangeas – especially the blue one. The purples of the two clematis are rather great too.
Lots of beautiful colour this week. Maybe clematis Aromatica needs sunshine for the scent to be noticeable?
A nice reminder for me to go out and put out supports for my lucifer! I recall growing M mochata alba from seed years ago Pauline, it really is lovely. Time to grow it again I think.
I haven’t come across Clematis Romantica before – very pretty Pauline. And that white day lily is lovely too – after a few years of doing nothing I have had a day lily reappear and bloom, so perhaps I could aspire to some more…