Tell me what is flowering in your garden today.

[PerspicaciaTick]

My garden is looking very green and vibrant today.

I can see:
Apple blossom
Camellia (although the flowers are starting to drop)
Forget me nots
Lungwort
Hellebores are hanging on
Euphorbia are doing their limey green thing and perking up one corner
Bluebells
Chaenomeles

What can you see? And what region are you in? (And I might nick your ideas )

[applecatchers36]

South

Lilac
Jasmine
Peonies
White roses, loads of flowers
Pink rose, one flower but more in bud
Geraniums (in pots)

[bilbodog]

Rosa banksiae Lutea by front door
aliums
alchemilla molis
nepeta starting to come out
aquilegias
poppies ready to burst
just put some nemesias in - looking very pretty
lavender almost out
waiting for my philadelphus to come out and scent the whole garden any time now
euphorbias
clematis montana just going over
Pauls Himalayan Musk covered in buds
Chaenomeles got caught by frost and flowers all brown (sob)
ferns and hostas coming up and looking lush green and exotic

[bilbodog]

forgot to say Buckinghamshire for above plants!

[aircooled]

Flag iris, I. germanica. Lots of colours including pale blue Jane Phillips, weird pink Edward of Windsor and a very tall unknown golden yellow one. Standing up well to the hail here in the Midlands!

[applecatchers36]

My pink roses & yellow now coming out
White roses masses of flowers
Jasmine out
Aquilegia now out
Peonies going over
Geranium still going strong

[FatAli]

I am very hopeful about a deep bed of hydrangeas - about 8 of them.

I planted it 2 years ago. Last year not one of them flowered, although they became very large and healthy looking.

This year they are all covered in buds. I have my fingers crossed. Any tips for maximising their chances?

Apart from them, we have lots of lovely lupins out at the moment. Some peonies still going, roses and geraniums. I have today bought 6 stocks to put in a bed at the bottom of the garden, hoping for lots of scent.

I always wish I had planted alliums. I visited a house the other week where the entire garden was full of them - it looked amazing.

[funnyperson]

alliums roses ceanothus irises sweet woodruff geraniums phaeum 5 varieties geranium johnsons blue hellebores cosmos lupins azaleas pansies phlox choisya clematis pyracantha cotoneaster deutzia osteospermum valerian daisies buttercups

[HaveYouSeenHerLately]

Pheasant and Funny - I have a new peony (well, bought last year and went in the ground in April/May) and it has no buds!

I don't think I planted it too deeply as it already had shoots - I planted it level with the surface of the bed.

It's a Sarah Bernhardt. The leaves have grown beautifully I looked it up and in some cases flowering starts at the end of June. I'd almost given up on the new shoots coming through so maybe it's a bit delayed. I am in the SE though

[traviata]

tradescantia
geraniums (various)
iris siberica
fescue grass
coronilla still going
valerian
aquilegias
creeping gypsophila
veronicas
alliums some gone some going
silver leaved convolvulus
cistus
anthriscus
saxifrage
dianthus is covered with buds, but last year they all stayed closed and went brown
wallflowers still going
cosmos (bought in bud from supermarket)
penstemons (dark blue - many others have disappeared )
weigela
spiraea
escallonia

[funnyperson]

haveyouseenher peonies seem very variable depending on the aspect of the bed and shade and food and water and variety of peony etc
Mine (bowl of beauty, officinalis, sara bernhart) have pin head buds but only round the corner in a neighbour's house they have been in full bloom and are nearly over!

[applecatchers36]

Roses and Geraniums still going strong
Nasturtiums
Passion Flowers
Sweet peas
Dahlias
Lavender

[echt]

Well, it's winter here in Melbourne:

slipper orchids
crucifix orchids
velthemia capensis
hardenbergia
grevillea "Ned Kelly"
clivia
yellow daisy bush
a vivid purple bouganvillea
chilean potato vine
aeonium "Zwartkop"

[aircooled]

The wisteria is having its second flush of flowers and one of my favourites is full of bees - Echinops sphaerocephalus or white globe thistle. Agapanthus in pots lovely but everything in the garden was looking a bit stressed, thankfully we had some rain yesterday.

[applecatchers36]

Oh those white globe thistles are lovley air

[RaphaellaTheSpanishWaterDog]

Currently we have -

Clematis Lady Diana
Mimulus Bifidus
Verbena Boniarensis
Halimium
Penstemon Heterophyllus Electric Blue
Armeria
Black-eyed Susan
Lavender Hidcote & Papillion
Scabious
Acanthus
Roses including Munstead Wood & Rambling Rector
Jasmine
Leucanthemum
Salvias
Stokesia
Hydrangeas
Crocosmia
Lysimachia Ciliata
Giant Knapweed

[RaphaellaTheSpanishWaterDog]

......oh and our giant (60'+) Wisteria is on its second flowering :@) (this pic from May/June)

[shovetheholly]

Resuscitating this thread because I need inspiration for late August/September flowering things as my garden is at a bit of a lull.

I do have

• Verbena bonariensis
  
• Sedum
  
• Japanese anemones
  
• Crocosmia
  
• Thalictrum
  
• Persicaria

[PerspicaciaTick]

I'm afraid that our garden is rather devoid of flowers at the moment. Just some petunias in the hanging basket and a row of sunflowers.
But we do have vast quantities of tomatoes and victoria plums.

[aircooled]

'A bit of a lull' Shove but you've got all that going on! Ok, how about some Asters - A. frikartii 'Monch' (don't know how to do an umlaut on the 'o') is an earlier one. Alma Potschke is a wonderful deep pink. Not sure what's going on in my garden as we're on holiday in Cornwall - visited the National Collection of Dahlias - want (almost) all of them!

[funnyperson]

hibiscus, roses, fuschias, ceratostigma, hosta, cyclamen, clematis, hydrangeas, lilies, helenium waldtraut, geraniums, corydalis, gaura, hyssop, oleander

sounds a lot but not very big clumps so a bit patchy. lots of foliage though.

[shovetheholly]

Oh, aircooled, it sounds like a lovely place to visit! Dahlias are a great plan too. I like the spiky-flowered ones very much. Asters are a fabulous idea too - I may see if I can track one down at the weekend and plant it in.

I had to google ceratostigma funny. What a lovely thing! Is it fully hardy? I hear you on the clumps - one of my problems is that I only just bought some of the late flowering things, so they are still very small. I do have masses and masses of self-seeded verbena on the way, though, which is rather lovely.

Perspicacia - I am jealous of your toms. I haven't had a single ripe one yet!

[funnyperson]

Yes, ceratostigma is hardy and the flowers are a lovely blue colour and foliage very dainty and a nice bright green.

In mums garden the crocosmia and asters are looking very lovely indeed: little dots of purple and a delicate light translucent orange! Then there is a large hardy fuschia bush of deepest magenta. Very nice.

[funnyperson]

I think whats nice is having just the one or two flower tyes but lots of them and you get this with large old gardens where there hasnt been too much interference so that plants spread and self seed, providing swathes of colour, but some very good succession planting!

[Appervine]

My ligularia has got pretty yellow/orange flowers at the moment. Lovely contrast with the brown leaves.

[applecatchers36]

At the moment we have roses still going strong
Sunflowers
Geraniums still flowering
Lavender
Nasturtiums
Dahlias are doing really well, they were Sarah Raven & really impressed with them.