Top Ten August Blooms.

Cathy over atRambling in the gardenhas posted her top August flower reminding me that it is in high spirits time I did the same . It is a hard one this calendar month as many of my favourites are blossom in the Modern part of the garden that you have n’t see yet ; it is this year ’s ‘ project ’ and is yet to be unveil . So my top ten here are all lovely but not necessarily the ones I am crooning over and drag on all my friends to look at just now .

Having said that I am very much in love with the althaea which is not actually a hollyhock , xAlcaltlhaea suffrutescens‘Parkallee ’ . I wrote about its history in 2014 so if you would like to know more about it clickhere

xAlcalthaea suffrutescens‘Parkallee ’

xAlcalthaea suffrutescens‘Parkallee’

It blooms later than althea and as it is pass over with the wild Marsh Mallow it has healthy leave of absence and never gets rust fungus . Each year it develop taller and openhanded and better . It does need to be staked . The flowers are dainty , semi double and the color of umber ointment .

you could get shades of pink too , ‘ Parkrondell ’ or ‘ Parkfreiden ’ but these do not seem to grow as powerfully .

xAlcalthaea suffrutescens‘Parkrondell ’

xAlcalthaea suffrutescens‘Parkallee’

One of my ‘ Parkallee ’ plant has thrown up a pinkish fun which looks very similar to ‘ Parkrondell ’

Pink fun ofA.’Parkallee ’

Also pretty in pink , Crinum x powelliis enjoying this warm summertime . This plant life is a bulb with large strappy leaf and enormous trumpet- shaped flowers . I only noticed last yr that it is fragrant . you could get it in white too although I revel the lettuce pink one . It belong to the Amaryllis family but it is hardy as long as it is planted in a sheltered position .

Crinum x powelli

Tobacco plants are adorable at this time of year and well-situated from cum . I do n’t mean those direful dwarf strive but the tall ones like Nicotiana mutabilis .

Nicotiana mutabilis

The flowers of this one start off pink and then turn livid . The ‘ Whisper Series ’ is another marvelous variety in different refinement of pinko . This is my current favourite .

Nicotiana‘Whisper series ’

I love unripe flowers soNicotiana alata‘Lime Green ’ is always a winner with me . I farm it with ferns and genus Funka .

xAlcalthaea suffrutescens‘Parkrondell’

Nicotiana alata‘Lime Green ’

August is Pineapple flora orEucomistime . I have several of these in pots but I find that most of them are hardy in the garden so they can be plant outside . The most striking isEucomis‘Sparkling Burgundy ’ with purple leaves and large pinkish flower .

Eucomis ‘ Sparkling Burgandy ’

Pink sport ofA.’Parkallee’

I ca n’t remember the name of this next one but it reckon likeEucomis comosa .

This little one lives in a pot . I know umbellifer and I turn a shrub with lovely lustrous leave of absence and xanthous umbels which looks great in August with the early Michaelmas Daisy , Aster frikartii‘Monch ’ . It isBupleurum fruticosum . I ca n’t sympathize why it is not learn more often .

Bupleurum fruticosum

Crinum x powelli

Bupleurnm fruticosumwithAsterfrikartii ‘ Monch ’

Beth Chatto consideredAster Frikartii‘Monch ’ the best Michaelmas daisy for farsighted display and downright sweetheart , it starts blossom before any of the others and goes on and on .

Aster frikartii‘Monch ’

Nicotiana mutabilis

My favourite climbing plant at the moment is a potato plant . I don”t much like the earlier floweringSolanum crispum‘Glasnevin ’ which peak in June and July because it look just like what it is , a potato .

Solanum crispum‘Glasnevin ’

I prefer the somewhat white one which flower a bit later , Solanum jasminoides .

Nicotiana‘Whisper series’

Solanum jasminoides

But my ducky is the daintySolanum laxum‘Creche ar Pape ’ which is in bloom now . The flowers are white touch with lilac and it bloom for weeks on close .

Solanum laxum‘Creche ar Pape ’

Nicotiana alata‘Lime Green’

Nurseries sometimes list it as ‘ Creche du Pape ’ which make up more sensory faculty grammatically but it is incorrect . It is named after a garden in Brittany . You see it a luck in France but it is rarer in the UK .

Right , it is time for a chip of bright orangeness after all these pastel . Most of my crocosmias got wrack by the heatwave in June and July and were burn brown or killed altogether . But I have a afterwards blossom one looking expectant right now . It has large , prosperous , freesia - alike flowers rather like ‘ Star of the East ’ but bigger . It is called ‘ Golden Ballerina ’ .

Crocosmia‘Golden Ballerina ’

Eucomis ‘Sparkling Burgandy’

I am enjoying a pretty small annual at the here and now . I find the seeds in my pocket . I wrote about my Pocket Seeds a while ago . All my scoop are full of seeds which are implore or borrowed or worse . I have no melodic theme where these seed come from and I have been waiting with interest to see what they are . Pure clean flowers always appeal to me and if they have chocolate pith , I ca n’t stand them . This is Hibiscus trionum .

Hibiscus trionum

I will cease with another blanched flower , a lovely small Amaryllid .

Zepyhranthes candida

This lovely flora needs a dampish grunge . I grow it in my crushed rock garden which help to prevent it from drying out . It is name after Zephyr , the God of the West Wind which I think is appropriate for my garden . According to Ovid , Chloris was marital to the god , Zephyr . I have n’t told the Pianist this , I do n’t desire him giving himself air .

If you are say yet again , what no dahlia ? Dahlias are indeed at the top of my August list but they will have to await for another post instead of being squeezed in here . Please connect in and deal your favorite August blooms .

40 Responses toTop Ten August Blooms.

I seldom respond to give thanks you for your wondrous web log and picture which I read every calendar week – or when I get to it ! Needless to add I am answer today as I would like to ask you a shrub name that presently escapes me and that I do n’t seem to have written down ( or ca n’t ascertain it ! ) . I ’m sure you will know it as you have featured it a few times . It is that newish , to these component , ‘ must have ’ shrub with diametrical , widely lance mould and cordage , darkish green , deeply veined parting to 7 ” long X 3″ W and white-hot panicles of perfumed flowers in September/ October . I think it is from N. America . Not Hoheria or Eucryphia . Just in rigorous bud now . As I garden in Ireland and could n’t find one here , I had to order it from the UK . I open my garden to visitors and know I will be asked for the name as soon as it starts to flower . stymie not to know ! It has grown very well for me and is now about 6′ x6′. Thank you for making me aware of it .

There are so many plants here I bid I could turn ! Hollyhocks ( hybrid or not ) are rust attractor here and I ’ve yet to succeed in getting one to flower . I ’ve fail repeatedly in arise Nicotiana ( why ? ! everyone enounce it ’s easy ) and my Eucomis have yet to produce a individual prime . Solanum did well in my former garden but it has n’t been as well-chosen here and , without rain , the Zephyranthes have produce only a few prime . Even my Hibiscus trionum , wide regarded as a weed in voice of the US , appears to have given up the trace . However , despite these complaint , I ’ve got more blooms this August than I can remember in prior years so I do have a top 10 listing to partake in : https://krispgarden.blogspot.com/2018/08 / top-10 - blossom - in - my - mid - summertime - garden.html

My Zephyranthes calculate exactly the same , in a far different climate far far away , is flower now also . Fun how that happen .

Bupleurum fruticosum

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Top Ten August Blooms.