Don’t tend to post on this thread, but love reading it for inspiration. Such beautiful gardens, such beautiful plants... Just HAD to share my Patty’s Plum that opened this morning... amazing colour, but I understand it fades quite quickly. I guess I’ll just have to enjoy it while it lasts...
Thanks @Victoria Sponge i take no credit for the valerians. They decided where to go! That poppy is gorgeous. Still waiting for just one. 1000s of seeds in a packet - maybe I'll be lucky. Some have at least germinated this time!
A long shot from my back garden today. Linaria just popping, feverfew and ox eyes about to explode in the next few days. Alliums going over. My first year of valerian officianalis flowering - a great bee-success (tall, white, stage left). My angelica was razed to the ground by slugs and all my poppies, so will give up on those. Pretty much everything in my garden is pollinator-friendly. There are a few perennials just in for the colour block but most plants are now useful to wildlife. It's taken a few years, but the garden is now buzzing, popping, mating, hovering and snoozing. More linaria is needed.
My first year flowering of clematis Nubia; covered in buds. Lovely colour but rather tiny in stature. Good for pots, though.
@purplerallim I understand that it only ever grows to three ft maximum. I bought it for the colour and have struggled to save it from slugs. So have it high up on a shelf. It wouldn't survive in the ground.
Mine is in a tub, it is its second year it overwintered in the greenhouse, has been outside for three weeks and as slugs are few this year is doing ok. 3/4 foot is fine in the spot it's in on a south facing wall @Fire.
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B3, love the mix of colours in the border with the valerian and roses.
That poppy is gorgeous. Still waiting for just one. 1000s of seeds in a packet - maybe I'll be lucky. Some have at least germinated this time!