Before the rain comes

Thanks to Mike & Julia from near Coventry for a couple of pictures from their garden. Plant ID is giving the above as clustered bellflower (Campanula glomerata). Looks brilliant!

Below is a flowering corner complete with their lovely dog and great to see that their Ceanothus is doing well. Hope all’s well Mike & Julia!

 

Another report from north London

A big thanks to Debby H for sending us pictures of her garden now everything’s starting to hot up in the growing stakes.

Above is the Iris which is now flowering with some rather colourful geraniums below it.

The peonies (above) are great, we’ve got one with a deep red/purple flower but we’re liking the ones in white! We can see some staking going on here, in our garden the bush tends to grow out a bit competing with other plants for space and then flops over a bit after the rain. That’s where the staking comes in handy. Loving those white blooms.

Above is the ceanothus bush which is going at great guns and we’ve just read the plant has nitrogen fixing properties. New thing to us!

And finally the zephyranthes flower which is “slightly battered” as Debby described it but it still looks great to us. Cheers again for the pictures Debby!