What's looking good in June 2015

[DeborahJane]

Sorry about the delay in replying but I've been away.

It's Nigella (Love in a Mist). It's very easy to grow from seed, as an annual. Each seed pod produces thousands of seeds and flowers, here, from May throughout the summer if you grow them in succession. Just left to drop seed (or be distributed by wind or wildlife) they tend to flower from May until mid to late July.

Ours self-seed all around the garden and we're happy for them to do their own thing. If any are in the way or we need the ground we just pull them up. They are also good for using as cut flowers in vases and when the seed pods form they go well in dried flower arrangements.

The most common colour is light blue but they come in various shades of blue as well as white and pink. You should be able to buy a packet of mixed colour seeds.

A darker blue
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and a white
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Thanks Bootsy. I love them and really want them scattered throughout my garden. I'll check them out this week.

 

[DeborahJane]

So pretty Bootsy. I've tried hanging baskets but I've failed miserably. They look ok for a while but come warmer weather they just turn up their toes. A have two English gardener friends who say it's just too hard in Australia and have given up so that makes me feel a better. One friend has some with succulents and they look good so I'm trying that now. They are effective but not the same as the pretty ones so I'll just have to be content with admiring beautiful one like yours. Thanks for the lovely images

 

[Bootsy]

Thanks Deborah, Here are a few quick shots of things on the garden.

Our Passion Flower has just started blooming

Campanula are running wild now

Lychnis are flowering in white and cerise with the silver leafed Stachys behind them. They attract the bees which helps the vegetables and fruit all around that area

Phlomis Russelliana is also loved by the bees

Contrasting leaves and flowers

And these are just some close-ups of some flowers

 

[DeborahJane]

This is not the Amazon Rain Forest but that is how our garden - systematic wilderness - looks in June with heavy rain. (lol)

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Looks like touch of paradise Grouie. I love the way dog just pops up everywhere. He must be your constant companion...very nice.

 

[grouie]

For parents their child is the prettiest and for gardeners they admire their own creation. Here is one I admire. I call it snow bush. It will be in full bloom soon.

 

[zigs]

This was an overgrown bramble patch last year Now its an overgrown Poppy patch

 

[Bootsy]

Looks good, Zigs

But are they the sort of poppies you wanted?

 

[zigs]

Ta

Yep

 

[grouie]

Just what the doctor ordered?

 

[DeborahJane]

The poppy patch looks magical

 

[zigs]

Scorzonera, shoud be growing it for the roots, but I tend to just let it flower for the bees

 

[Bootsy]

It's also an old traditional cure for snake bite.

 

[Sheal]

I won't need that here then Bootsy.

 

[Bootsy]

Is that why you moved there?

 

[Sheal]

No, I didn't know there wasn't any snakes here at that time.