Tell me what is flowering in your garden today.

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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 )

Hello- thought I would join here as I too have a bit of a gap in my border that needs filling.
In East Yorkshire and in flower today
Hardy Fuschias ( my favourite is Mrs Popple)
Potentilla
Hisbiscus - white and purple
Hemerocallis
Buddleia -finally some peacock butterflies on them today :)
Penstemon
Russian sage
Crocosmia
a creeping hardy geranium - no ides what it is, my Dad gave me a cutting 30 years ago, and I pop it everywhere - lovely (almost evergreen) ground cover
Shasta daisy ( a bit of a cheat- it is waiting to be planted so is in a pot rescued from the sad flog off shelf , but beautiful now its has had a bit of love and attention )
and an oenothera I think - its peach, so not totally sure! ( I sowed a packet of free seeds of perennials, and got an amazing mass of diverse plants , some of which I dont know...:) )
I tried cerastostigma in my garden many years ago - lasted about 3 years and died ..I think it was too exposed, as my garden wasn't very sheltered.

Still on holiday in Cornwall and have just seen a tiny front garden with a big clump of pink lily-like Crinum powellii next to a huge hardy fuchsia bush with tiny pale pink flowers - the combination was delicate but stunning. Perhaps I should have posted in the 'things that make you go ooooo' thread.

aircooled - woah, spooky - I was looking at buying some of those spectacular crinums just yesterday, wondering if I could fit them into my Parkers bulb order!

bookbook - your garden sounds every bit as lovely as your allotment! Thanks for the heads up about the hardiness of the cerastostigma. If it's too exposed where you are, it's bound to die here!! Good to know hibiscus does well.

funny - I think you're right about bit swathes of planting. I have an area of my garden that is too "bitty" and I'm going to dig it all up in the next month or so and replant in larger clumps.

apper - one of my favourites! But mine is a variety that flowers slightly earlier, alas. apple - I think dahlias are something I need!

hello- I had planned to post yesterday, but hey ho!
I had forgotten to say I still have some flowers on my Hypericum 'Hidcote', it has been in flower nearly all summer :) I take it for granted - its a stalwart of a shrub.
I did think about having another go with a slightly different variety of cerastostigma - there are not many blues in my garden- and I now have a lot more protection and shelter with hedges after 30 years :)

Ooooh! I have a hypericum but it is a crap calycinum variety! It flowers for about a week every year and then that's it - and it seems to time this with unfailing accuracy for the week of my late spring/early summer holiday. I've been looking to find a replacement, and I kind of wanted to keep it a hypericum because it's the only thing (apart from a sedum) that survived from the old garden - so kind of a nod to the past. I'm becoming sentimental in me old age! So I'll have a look for 'Hidcote' because that would be perfect.

Roses, agapanthus, sweetpeas, rudbeckias, Miss Wilmot's Ghost thistles, crocosmia, Shasta daisies, achillea...quite a lot really.
Cerastostigma seems to grow well although very exposed site, perhaps because it's very free draining?
Haven't tried growing dahlias so must add to the list

I put dahlias in this year and I am really pleased with them as they have been going all summer. I have also got some rather cowslips that are reflowering now.

its lovely shove - it has been flowering since about May, main flush about a month ago. I think yours is the ground cover? Mine is a shrub about 4' high now.
I wonder if the cerastostigma just couldn't stand the cold winters here -we had a run of totally bitter ones when I first planted up my garden, with not much shelter . i am on chalk/flint and its pretty free draining. May have to consider again now I have shelter......

elephant - has it snapped cold where you are and then got warmer again? Isn't it strange when you see things out at the wrong time of year?! It feels really odd!

bookbook - yep, mine is a kind of bushy ground cover, about a foot high. It spreads everywhere with runners. I would be so interested to know if you can get the cerastostigma through the winter where you are. It is truly lovely, but I don't think it'd survive here! I've lost far more hardy things, anyway. I didn't realise you were on chalk! Now there's a challenge I have no experience of whatsoever.

In my opinion shove it is often better to have the deciduous choice, rather than a semi or total evergreen , much hardier.
Yes chalk! - so many of my favourite shrubs/bushes are a no-go .
I have noticed today, my hydrangea is out - its only a baby, so just 3 flowers :)

shove yes it has got cooler and wetter, although I live on the southern most extremes of the country. My cowslips and primroses have morphed together (in the spring) although I have read that this is not uncommon. but these are defiant cowslips.

My primroses are flowering!

This season is so weird, isn't it?
Autumn is just about here , my aster laevis calliope is just breaking out into flower (though I don't think it will be as spectacular as last year), and yesterday, this poppy has just flowered, and has another 2 buds. Its a lovely colour, with a tinge of darker pink /lilac than my others . It was a bonus plant from a free packet of seeds that I sowed earlier this year. My rose 'Glenfiddich' has one perfect bloom , and the hypericum 'Hidcote' has another good flush !

`That poppy is so pretty!
ere we have fuschia, ceratostigma, cyclamen, echinacea and, thanks to friends, callicarpa in flower. Pansies, nerines, salvias are flowering too but the roses not so well, though own the road the roses are still prolific!

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My sedum and hesperanthus (schizostylus) are just getting going, which is normal for this time of year. What isn't is the cowslip that I have in flower .

This has been a very, very strange summer and I have to admit to being just a touch freaked out by it.

Too true shove - I have hibiscus, Japanese anemones, potentilla etc, etc all expected -, some not nearly so :). Here is the hypericum you could see in the other photo. Its facing north east to cheer up a dark area, as it doesn't get any sun by 2 o clock - ( thats my DH's workshop its under!)- and thats the pear tree we are starting to pick- so many more to go!

book - it's lovely! And doesn't it really sing alongside that yellow euonymous?! You're as good with flowers as you are with veg!!!

Blimey, though, you DO have a lot of pears...

It is at the stage where I am thinking I should have started some pruning back about 3 years ago. It needs a fair haircut tbh, but it keeps on flowering! And I hate pruning.... just not tough enough

This is flowering, has the most gorgeous scent but I don't know what it is. Any ideas, please?

Oh Buddy that's gorgeous .Hope someone names it soon .

Buddy - I'm pretty sure that is lilac! It's one of the waxier ones - possibly a small-leafed form - they have a really heady, gorgeous scent.

It is confused - like so many other plants this year! It's supposed to be out in late spring!!

Shove oh wow! Thank you. The scent is amazing, such a wonderful smell. And, as you say, really heady.

Identified it as Syringa Bloomerang Dark Purple.

My sedum is looking fantastic. It's never gone so pink before but I've improved the soil and fed the plants properly this year following advice from here and the garden centre and it's made a real difference.

My fuchsias look lovely. I've got two in beds which are getting a bit out of control really but have masses of flowers. I have some in pots surrounding the greenhouse and they are really flowering well too.