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Crocosmia Lucifer, Echinacea Delicious Candy, hemerocallis Little Grapette, hydrangea arborescens Annabelle, Nigella papillosa African Bride, Sisyrinchium Quaint and Queer, six on saturday
The month of June is progressing too quickly for my liking. I want it to slow a little so we can savour the summer, the long hours of daylight, the weather. It’s been said before but I for one would like an endless summer.
Maybe not if it is 31 degrees though!
My six today to share with you and our host The Propagator are a snapshot of the season in my garden.
These tiny flowers are a favourite of mine not least because they are quaint and definitely a queer colour. Don’t be distracted by the foliage, that is from a neighbouring box plant. Q&Q has typical strap leaves of a Sisyrinchium.
Grown from seed these are much bigger than a regular Nigella. My new favourite I think. Good white petals and dark black centres. Good in a vase.
The flower heads on the Hydrangeas have suddenly grown and are even beginning to colour up from their starting green. They are growing under Vitis coignetiae Crimson Glory vine and next to Geranium Johnson’s Blue. Such pleasing shades of green.
Crocosmia Lucifer is a devil to grow. See what I did there?!
This is about my third attempt in various gardens. Finally I seem to have cracked it here: sunny open position and well drained soil. In a raised bed it seems happy returning for this it’s third summer.
Hemerocallis also are doing well and flowering beautifully right now.
This is a useful front of border sized Hemerocallis in a rich dark grape colour looking properly juicy with raindrops this morning.
I love a daisy and the Echinacea Delicious Candy are no exception to that pretty daisy look. This one is an especially vibrant pink. Smaller in stature than E purpurea but seriously more colourful. Echinacea like the open position my garden offers and need elbow room to flower well.
These are my six. I hope you have an enjoyable weekend wherever you are and thanks for reading. D.
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I’m not a fan of the Quaint and Queer, only because I’m in love with the regular blue blue-eyed grass!
Wonderful color on the coneflower. I tried to grow Pow Wow Berry from seed, but I don’t think they took. Amazing penstemon.
Thank you. Hello. I do love the usual blues but Q&Q has won me over. Rather subtle shades.
Just love that white nigella and the quaint and queer Sisyrinchium!
Thank you for saying so 🌞
All lovely. 😃 I love the crocosmia in front of the pink Penstemon. Great colours!
Thanks Cathy 🌞
Love it all..it’s really called Quaint aand Queer? Lucifer and the Nigella are my favorites…the devil and the chef??
It really is.
The devil and the chef
New tv series….
I would watch it..flower arranging and cooking??
Great idea!
Wow! I must locate your lovely nigella. That is right up my alley! Beautiful Six today.
Thank you 🌞mine were Sarah Raven seeds
I particularly love the vibrant colours of the Crocosmia and Pentstemon together. What a pop of colour! The Nigella is areal beauty!
Thank you 🌞 I am enjoying the combination side by side
Nigella papillosa had not been one of my favorites; but I have since discovered that it can self sow and naturalize on a small scale if conditions are right, sort of like alyssum. It blooms and finishes by about now if it does not get regular watering. I really do not know how long it lasts with watering.
Perhaps, like the best of us, not long!
If it is long enough to bloom and toss seed, that is all it needs to perpetuate itself. That is an advantage in my garden, although I would like to water these sorts of things to keep them going longer.
I’m with you on an extended summer. June has just flown by. I want to put on the brakes, but time is a freight train going way too fast to slow down.
A lovely 6 this week, Dorris. I am intrigued by the Nigella, I might need to buy some seed!
If only we could control these things….ah well. It is a pretty Nigella, quite different. Thanks Eliza.
Come come Dorris, it is only the start of summer really, even though it might have felt like summer since April, but 31 degrees is certainly rather OTT. I am glad that the person who named that Sisyrinchium stuck with their gut instinct! I wonder if you are deliberately teasing me with this post as I have never yet had more than a spindly penstemon and echinacea have never lasted more than a season and you already know about my crocosmia and hemerocallis… 😉
I would never tease you Cathy! Now I feel guilty that you think I have done it on prurppse. I certainly did not.
I love that Sisyrinchium and it’s name is part of the charm
And now I am teasing you, Dorris! I guessed you weren’t doing it intentionally 🙂
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