Although June's abundance of bloom and colour has moved on, July has brought its own striking sights throughout the garden - plants blooming for the first time, growing much taller than usual or otherwise making an impact in a way they never had before. I have already shown Clematis 'Prince George' a number of times this year, but it is now flowering literally from bottom to top and I can't resist sharing it again (below). The individual blooms are delightful too, intriguingly crinkly (above).
In the adjacent border, grown-from-seed dierama is now in bloom, and has had to be staked to stop it dangling right across the path. Seed, from the Hardy Plant Society, was sown in 2016 and flowered for the first time last year.
Not far from the colonnade, where a few of the clematis have still not caught up, C 'Allionushka' is flowering just as well as always, clambering up an obelisk:
In recent years I have added several sanguisorba to the garden, aided by a visit to specialist nursery Avondale last year. My first purchase was S 'Candyfloss', towering above me in one of the bold borders:
In front of this sanguisorba are the stately seedheads of my favourite allium, A 'Miami; taller and chunkier than the ubiquitous A hollandicum, they flower a little later and have larger heads and attractive and more substantial seedheads which don't disintegrate and spread their seeds quite as readily. I usually add a few more to the borders each year.
Following on from the various dissatisfactions listed on Six on Saturday a few weeks back, progress has been made this week on revamping the rose garden. Instead of the existing two beds in front of the bus shelter and terraced beds beside it, which have never been striking...
...the two beds are being combined into one large bed and the roses in the terraced beds moved into it, along with additional new roses, with precautionary measures taken to prcvent 'rose sickness'. The terraced beds will be filled with perennials that can cope with poorer soil, and the roses around the perimeter of the rose garden will be replaced by clematis. I hadn't expected to generate a new bricklaying project so have been happy as Larry in the last day or two until I ran out of mortar with just a handful of bricks to lay. My equilibrium was barely ruffled even by the recollection that someone thought it was a good idea to bury rubble from the previous rose garden under the paving that separated the two beds, with as many as nine bags filled with it and the mortar removed from the realigned retaining walls... That'll teach her (maybe)!
Thanks to Jim who hosts this Six on Saturday meme - why not pop over to his blog and see what other people are sharing today, whether striking or not?
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