Plant porn thread 2 - what's looking lovely in your garden right now?

[Hippee]

Missed the last thread about this and wasn't sure whether to try and resurrect it, or start a new one. Hope you don't mind me borrowing!

I'm loving the perennial geraniums in my garden and the canterbury bells in everyone else's. My neighbours have a great yellow loosestrife. Lovely roses too - especially the old English roses and wild roses.

Anyone else?

[EauRouge]

My geraniums are looking fab too and my sweet william is really going for it. I also have yellow loosestrife, opium poppies, wild rose and nigella in the front garden so very colourful at the moment.

My lupins are completely ruined though, there's nothing left after a joint effort from snails and woolly aphids

[CamperFan]

Well the wind is battering parts of the garden (coastal), but the red hot poker lilies are looking lovely, as are the purple nepeta. The thrift is still going, though fewer flowers. Bright orange California poppies, fewer than last year as I didn't plant anymore, just left them to self seed. I was a little disappointed with the alliums, though the dwarf ones do look fab - where they haven't got lashed. Foliage wise, the phormiums are all doing really well, the bronze fennel getting tall and new growth on our little pine trees, planted last summer (actually was all planted last summer - its doing really well!).

[Taffeta]

Oooo so much! Love this time of year! Pink gypsophila, veronica, roses ( esp my fave Alnwick ), various geraniums in whites, pinks and purples, pink cistus, dianthus carthusianorum just coming into flower, lavender gone bonkers this year, allium, and the veg patch oh!

We are going to have a bumper raspberry crop this year.

[teta]

Roses,pinks and astrantia.Pale coloured Aquilegias that are still glowing in the shady corners of my garden along with white Foxgloves.Geraniums,Nemesia and Violas plus a big purple flowered clematis.Peachy poppies and a riot of multi-coloured Lupins together with campanula and Erysimum.

[shouldbedoingtheironing]

My sweet peas are amazing - I have gone for all purple ones this year and are just beautiful. Dahlia's are just opening and looking lovely as are my roses. I'm starting to feel very happy with my garden this year as I only started planting it up 2 years ago and all the rain has really helped bring it on

[ThisIsNotWhatIWasAfter]

Does everyone have yellow loosestrife? I have it too but i'm in Scotland so it's not flowering quite yet. Geum 'blazing sunset' is gorgeous just now in a sea of forget me not. Aquilegias all over the place can't wait until they really settle in and start popping up all over the place. My lilies are a lost cause it's slug central out there. I am covetting my neighbours hostas and thinking she must be using witchcraft on the slugs.

[chixinthestix]

Masses of blowsy roses here - its been an awesome year for them so far, but have some incredible foxgloves too - the tallest one is now 7 feet. They have all got a big kink in the top from the storms a couple of weeks ago. At least they all match.

Shouldbe it'll be a long time till my sweet peas are flowering - did you plant yours last autumn?

[InMySpareTime]

My lupins are looking great, I planted them right next to a teasel and the snails have steered clear of both- result.
My summer raspberries and autumn raspberries are cropping at the same time, I hope I'll still have some left in autumn.
My blueberries are festooned with fruit this year, I keep watching them for ripeness.
I have a lovely deep red flower at the moment, not sure what it is, I'll ask MIL when she visits.

[teta]

Yes,i have Loosestrife.Ididn't know what it was so have just googled it and found out what its called.Its invasive in my garden though and has spread into the Iris and Anemones.

[ThisIsNotWhatIWasAfter]

Loosestrife is a bit of a bully in my garden too. I've got my eye on it for a hefty division once it's done flowering this year. It is pretty but i don't think my neighbours will thank me for sharing. I have the purple too (lysimachia atropupurea?) does any one know if it's as wild as the yellow? Sorry for the hijack.

[shouldbedoingtheironing]

chixinthestix - I bought a tray of sweet pea plants in March from B&Q as I lost my seedlings over the winter. However, they've done brilliantly and are 6 ft tall already and am cutting them every day!

The purple loosestrife is lovely and I think pretty rampant too see here www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/plants/plant_finder/plant_pages/5289.shtml

[chixinthestix]

Well fair play to B&Q and more fool me for choosing poncetastic named varieties of sweet peas! Although they have suddenly put out loads of foliage so perhaps they'll be ok but just late.

I have yellow loosestrife - v rampant and purple loosestrife - not at all rampant in my garden but v pretty. I did once buy a veriegated version of the yellow which was much less vigorous for a while but then it reverted to the normal green leaves and away it romped.

My blueberry is doing well this year too - ate our first handful of berries yesterday.

[echt]

The jade plant in the front garden; a mass of pink flowers. It's a monster, they can be grown like hedge in Melbourne, as tough as old boots.

Winter is the flowering time for quite a lot of succulents. Oddly.

[LustingAfterMarkDarcy]

The rhubarb is looking lovely, but i cant do anything with it due to scaffolding meaning i cant get to it! the clematis looks fab and the miniature lillies. The foxgloves however not so much due to the batterings winds they look rather defeated.

[Kernowgal]

Got a beautiful Clematis tangutica just coming into flower, and a lovely Salvia 'Caradonna' looking good too. Sweet peas have been a bit slow but for some reason a mangetout seed found its way into the packet so I've been gobbling those too! Snails ate my lupin and have been having a damn good go at my dahlias but good ole 'David Howard' seems to be clinging on. Must get out there to put together some slug pubs.

At work we have an absolutely beautiful rose called 'Gentle Hermione' which I would recommend to anyone thinking of getting a rose. It has a gorgeous scent that fills the air and seems to be pretty easygoing, apart from needing a bit of staking.

[greyvix]

Roses, lupins and delphiniums all look lovely. I have a new bed, which I am tending lovingly while the novelty lasts, and before it gets over-run with weeds and eaten by slugs and snails.

[ComeIntoTheGardenMaud]

So many, but especially alchemilla mollis.