Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day. June Delights.

I have said before on this web log that if our gardens are not full of bloom in June , we might as well hang up our horticulture gloves . This is the month that it is all happening . I am not a tidy nurseryman and I mug up in more plants than this garden can passably hold , because I like the effect of everything frothing over riotously and countenance ’s face it a mo out of control . June is the time that my front garden get along into its own .

I have already written about roses and these two Cistus are at their best too . I know the dark maroon splodge on the pharynx . The petals are like tissue newspaper .

Cistus x purpureus

Cistus x purpureus

The little daisies ofErigeron karvinskianusround the feet ofCistus ladaniferseed around generously and they are always welcome . This genus Cistus exudes a kind of muggy rosin which smells grand in the sun and pass water you feel that you are in Provence .

Cistus ladanifer

The daisy see pretty withGeranium cantabrigiense‘Cambridge ’ . I am not very skillful at remember geranium names , as so many of them look alike and they are only the chorus in my garden , not the the primary player . Besides , they seed about and the offspring are often a bit different . In my opinion there are too many names . But this one is quite distinctive .

Cistus x purpureus

Geranium cantabrigiense‘Cambridge ’

This blue one has sow and the young is much paler . The modest purple one isGeranium sanguineum .

The dark leaved one appeared in my drive , it looks like a form ofGeranium pratense .

geranium are all very well , but they do n’t make the heart rate race . I know the little pink which edge the path far more .

Dianthus‘Gran ’s Favourite ’

Dianthus‘Haytor ’

Cistus x purpureus

Cistus x purpureus

Bindweed is a gardener ’s incubus , but there is one well - behave small convolvulus which everyone who get along to my garden covets . It does n’t spread out at all ; with a neat thump of silver foliage and pretty trumpet flowers it is a petty treasure .

Convolvulus cneorum

Another Mediterranean plant life is Saint Bernard ’s Lily , Anthericum ramosum .

Cistus ladanifer

Cistus ladanifer

Anthericum ramosum

The sun - lovingCarpenteria californicawith its sea anemone -like blossom is a favorite of mine . It make a decent bush , but I find it needs venture .

Carpenteria californica

Geranium cantabrigiense ‘Cambridge’

Geranium cantabrigiense‘Cambridge’

I have quite a few belated - flowering clematis in the front garden , but the refined ‘ Comtesse de Bouchard ’ with its velvety pink flowers is coming into rosiness now .

Clematis ‘ Comtesse de Bouchard ’

Salvias are very sluttish to keep going from clipping , but with the mild winter we had last twelvemonth , some of them never go off . ‘ Hot Lips ’ generally survives , but I was very surprised to feel ‘ Water melon ’ blooming again .

Salvia micropylla‘Water melon vine ’

Salvia x jamensis‘Hot lips ’

Let ’s get out the front garden now and see what is pass around the little pond I made in the back . It has to have plant all round to protect the fish from the heron .

I have several pots of the delightful , little , starry flowers of rhodohypoxis . They live in the nursery in winter with a pane of chicken feed over them to keep them dry and to keep them safe from computer mouse .

Rhodohypoxis bauri

Dianthus ‘Gran’s Favourite’

Dianthus‘Gran’s Favourite’

This lovely disconsolate red Osteospermum overwinters quite blithely in the glasshouse .

In a big pot I have the rhododendron my son yield me for a mother ’s twenty-four hour period gift days ago . It start out off as a flyspeck petty thing which had been forced to flower in March . Now it is just adorable with peachy buds . and delicately coloured flowers .

The dark red flower is labelledCalceolaria‘Sultan ’ which is a number odd as ‘ Sultan ’ is supposed to be orangish . I imagine this is far more eye - catching .

Dianthus ‘Haytor’

Dianthus‘Haytor’

I made a bog garden on one side of the pond . At the moment this large bloom yellowTrollius europaeusis endearing . The iris diaphragm isIris sibirica‘Sparkling Burgundy ’ which is one of my favourites .

I love Ragged Robin and this white one is rather pretty . It likes a nice , damp soil .

Lychnis flos - cuculi‘White Robin ’

Convolvulus cneorum

Convolvulus cneorum

In the pond water supply - lily are bloomng . This is getting rather long , but get ’s just go down the garden to look at how the winter garden is faring in summertime . I wrote about blush wine and irises in my last post , but on the way , we must have a quick look at the roses which have come out since then . I think this first one looks like an Alba . possibly ‘ Celestial ’ ?

Crambe cordifolia

Well , we have come at the winter garden at last . I grew some verbascums and some Euphorbia oblongata from seed to add some summer color to this bed .

Anthericum ramosum

Anthericum ramosum

The digitalis in the other bottom are a full dashing hopes . I grow them from seed and they were conjecture to be the lovely ‘ Pam ’s Choice ‘ , a white-hot foxglove with deep maroon spots . Look at the wretched thing and I nurtured them for two years for this . If you are wondering what the yellowed bloom is it is self seeded Poached Egg plant , Limonanthesdouglasii . Somehow the testicle vitellus has got assort from the white-hot .

Another ego - seeded plant down here is the lovely Evening Primrose , Oenothera versicolor‘Sunset Boulevard ’ . The blueCorydalis‘Spinners ’ is the same one I showed you calendar week ago and it is still perish unassailable .

genus Oenothera versicolor‘Sunset Boulevard ’

Carpenteria californica

Carpenteria californica

Another welcome flora which has self -seeded here is the ladybird poppy , Papaver commutatum‘Ladybird ’

Papaver commutatum‘Ladybird ’

If you are still with me I am sure that by now you have flowered indigestion , so that is enough for today . I will land up with my beautiful orchidaceous plant which has been in bloom for weeks now . It is the common patched orchidaceous plant , Dactylorhiza fuchsii . But it is not vernacular to me , it is uncommonly beautiful .

Clematis ‘Comtesse de Bouchard’

Clematis ‘Comtesse de Bouchard’

Dactylorhiza fuchsii

Thanks to Carole atMaydreamgardensfor hosting garden Bloggers ’ Bloom Day . I am off now to see how other blogger around the world are celebrating Garden Bloggers ’ Bloom Day

35 Responses toGarden Bloggers’ Bloom Day. June Delights.

The pool area garden is wonderful . Your “ common spotted orchidaceous plant ” is not at all usual here in my part of the cosmos – it ’s a beautiful thing ! It surprise me that we do have a few plants in common . However , my Carpenteria bloomed months ago and is currently a sad shadow of its former ego as I cut it back after flower this year . The Erigeron karvinskianus is a virtual grass here but , as you point out , a useful accompaniment to bolder works so I let it wander too . While I have muckle of Osteospermum , I ’ve never realize one in the rich red so now I ’ll be on the flavor - out for it .

What a wealth of efflorescence . I am glad you farm some pinks , they do not seem stylish nowadays . I like your ‘ Gran ’s Favourite ’ .

perfectly sensational ! Your garden are so beautiful and full of color . Thanks for the sojourn !

salvia micropylla ‘Water melon’

Salvia micropylla‘Water melon’

Could one ever get from “ flowered indigestion ” Chloris ? I do n’t think so particularly after lallygag over your June peak . I must confess that hardy geraniums make my pulsation backwash but then again so do dianthus . Are ‘ Gran ’s Favourite ’ and ‘ Haytor ’ scent ? They ’re one of my my female parent ’s favourites and they do so much advantageously with her although I ’ve got one of her flora settled in here now .