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What are your favourite summer flowering plants?

cvhcvh Posts: 18
After reading all your views on “naff” flowering plants (of which I seem to have a few!!) I thought it would be interesting to hear what your favourites are?   
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  • I think the nations favourite was the Rose and it certainly would be high up on my list too.  I have far too many favourites to list here and I am always finding more (expensive hobby is this gardening) but perhaps my all time tops are those that I have either grown from seed or cuttings like dahlias, clematis, lilac, aquilegia, poppies ........
  • karen paulkaren paul Posts: 230
    That's a hard question! But if I had to choose it would be something with a strong perfume scent, such as tree lillies or acidanthera.
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    Ooh, tricky, but I would probably say Echinacea, with Agastache a close run second. For roses it’s a toss up between RD Braithwaite for its strong growth and retention of red colour and Lady of Shallott because it just keeps on giving. Good to balance the scales, cvh!
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • cvhcvh Posts: 18
    Echinacea is one of my favourites too.  
  • Mark56Mark56 Posts: 1,653
    Agastache, dark leaved dahlias, foxgloves, delphiniums, hydrangea paniculata. Most cottage garden plants to be honest.
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    I don't grow roses, they remind me of outdoor swimming pools - useful four months of the year and a nuisance taking up space the rest of the time.

    I do like, sedum, cordyline, calendula, lavendar, rosemary, pretty much anything that grows without too much fuss. My absolute favourite is my smoke tree.
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Agastache, Salvias and Veronica’s, long lasting and bee magnets. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Mary370Mary370 Posts: 2,003
    edited August 2018
    Foxgloves, gladioli, sweet pea
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    edited August 2018
    Agapanthus, geums, echinops and crocosmia - rich bright colours for summer
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • ju1i3ju1i3 Posts: 189
    sea holly
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