Beautiful plants everyone. @1634 Racine very smart obelisk too!
Here’s a few from the far end of my hot border. Still a WIP but coming along, albeit with some unplanned problems of scale...
Helenium Moerheim Beauty - sizzling colours and sailed through the recent heatwave:
Agastache Black Adder, grown way too tall, so Heleniums are against green not purple!
Crocosmia Lucifer taken off this year, very tall and upright, so mostly blocking the view of the Salvia Guarantica black and Bloom behind:
A longer view of this end of the border, with Dahlia Arabian Night and a struggling DA red rose that’s pink, in the foreground.
Back at the other end of the border...
One of these orange echinaceas fades to pink, next to a very pink Munstead Wood rose, not my favourite colour combination!
The unfortunate and unplanned pink/orange combo again! Fiery-coloured echinaceas in the terrace above turned out to be pink, planted next to Dicliptera Suberecta:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Thanks Fire, some things worked better than hoped, others, not so much - like the pink/orange combos and the very unhappy, pink ‘red’ roses. The latter have to go, sadly... think I am going to have to rely on something else (dahlias, maybe echinaceas if I can find a red one that doesn’t go pink) for my red hit.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
The Real Red search is a long one, for sure. I just gave away a lot of my red efforts that were really pink/vermilion/magenta. Real red is another thing altogether.
Your hot borders are coming on a treat Nollie , I've not come across Dicliptera Subereecta before one for the wish list maybe , do you know how hardy it is ?
Ah yes, the never-ending search for a real red... I’m convinced it doesn’t actually exist in the rose world, certainly not here, Fire!
@Perki, thanks, getting there... The Dicleptera was a GC pick-up, labelled ‘Mediterranean Plant’ (soo good at labelling here). Think it was Nutcutlet that ID’d it for me. It’s survived -8 and snow here but my winters are usually dry. Probably need protection in the UK. Here it is in all it’s glory last year:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
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Here’s a few from the far end of my hot border. Still a WIP but coming along, albeit with some unplanned problems of scale...
Helenium Moerheim Beauty - sizzling colours and sailed through the recent heatwave:
Agastache Black Adder, grown way too tall, so Heleniums are against green not purple!
Crocosmia Lucifer taken off this year, very tall and upright, so mostly blocking the view of the Salvia Guarantica black and Bloom behind:
A longer view of this end of the border, with Dahlia Arabian Night and a struggling DA red rose that’s pink, in the foreground.
Back at the other end of the border...
One of these orange echinaceas fades to pink, next to a very pink Munstead Wood rose, not my favourite colour combination!
The unfortunate and unplanned pink/orange combo again! Fiery-coloured echinaceas in the terrace above turned out to be pink, planted next to Dicliptera Suberecta:
Sun worshippers.
Your hot borders are coming on a treat Nollie , I've not come across Dicliptera Subereecta before one for the wish list maybe , do you know how hardy it is ?
@Perki, thanks, getting there... The Dicleptera was a GC pick-up, labelled ‘Mediterranean Plant’ (soo good at labelling here). Think it was Nutcutlet that ID’d it for me. It’s survived -8 and snow here but my winters are usually dry. Probably need protection in the UK. Here it is in all it’s glory last year:
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