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 )

I thought sedums liked poor soil ...?

Maybe I haven't done so well after all then?!

If it's flowering well and looks better than in previous years, it was clearly the right thing to do spaghetti!! Enjoy all the insects - the bees will love you for getting loads of those flowers.

I've just been watching a Red Admiral in my garden drinking nectar from all the purple-coloured flowers. I don't know if they all prefer purple ones, but this one definitely went for the verbena and the Erysmium.

We saw 5 butterflies today on the pink plants. It was handy because DS was mid tantrum and stopped to watch them most intently.

Did see some bees but no bumble bees sadly.

I have sedum (the best year ever), more roses, the last of the penstemon, a salvia and a hydrangea in flower, and that's about the sum total of what's in my garden as half of it is fruit trees and veggie patch. Oh gosh, how could I forget the glorious calendulas! They are amazing, (although bloody everywhere) and when I go down to shut the chickens in at dusk, the zingy orange against the lime greens in the dusky light is just spectacular.

I've had a very satisfying day today, really licking the garden in to shape and mulching, and working out what I'd like to do in the next few months.

I have a rose, lots of white Japanese anemones, deep pink ditto, lots of cosmos, nasturtiums, dahlias, aster Mönch ( all been flowering for weeks), salvias, potentilla, fuchsias, pelargoniums, helianthemum Lemon Queen, caper spurge, and... primrose

Can I ask how you get your pelargoniums to flower. Mine grow like mutants but flower poorly. They get fed tomato food occasionally along with everything else. They are the only poor flowerers. I'm not going to bother over wintering cuttings this year and just throw them on the heap. I have them facing every direction against walls and not one is performing well from a flowering perspective. They are the lemon scented, pink flowered variety.

My scented leaf varieties aren't flowering atm but my regals and zonals are. I think the secret with all of them is warmth (hence why it's not been a great year for them). Zonals like lots of sun: regals are happy in shade. I won't try to take cuttings of any of mine but will keep all but the scented leaf ones in the garage and the scented indoors, so I can rub & smell the leaves. Don't throw your plant out - it will cheer you up in winter with its scent, and you may get the odd flower.

It's a mutant, The biggest it almost 6 foot tall. The only joy it would bring me is lining a tin if I were to make a sponge. I don't make many sponges though so on the compost heap its going!

My wallflowers are fabulous throughout the year and the nerines are just bursting forth.

I have sedums ( agree are really good this year, deep pink) , nasturtiums, dahlias, roses, pansies, geraniums in flower.
My Passion flowers just finished and saw a last purple clematis flower in bloom today.

Very late sunflowers are out at the moment and bees were still going into them in the week.

Gaura is flowering beautifully , and the asters are out. `Lacecap pale pink hydrangeas are looking lovely and provide delicate colour against the deep purple salvia
Fuschia Mrs Popple's purple centres echo the salvias and the cyclamen are burgeoning deep and pale pink, the corms having been there for a while, each of the older corms has about 50 flowers coming up!

In mum's garden the yellow heleniums are out in full force and are like a ray of sun

But the hosta leaves are yellowing, the oak leaves are falling and there is more than a tinge of orange and brown and the squirrels are gathering acorns.

cyclamen :) They are such pretty little things.

Lavatera
Cosmos
Mrs. Bradshaw geum
Verbena bonsarias

Forgive spellings!

I dislike my sedum stalks and leaves. They're rubbery and give me the creeps; the pink cauliflower-type heads are no comfort, pretty as they are.

I'm not keen on sedums either, except the smaller ones on eco roofs; those I love!

Swallowing - I think I said this upthread, but I Chelsea chop my sedums every year. It makes the heads come smaller and more compact, so they are less massive and cauliflower like. It also delays flowering so I get real late season colour - sedum is not quite all out yet!

However, I'm a bit believer that life is too short to have plants you hate in your garden. If you dislike it, get rid and plant something you love!

The warm weather of the last few days has encouraged new flowers on gaura and some of the hardy geraniums (esp phaeum). Mina lobata has just come into flower.

Quite right, Shovetheholly!

hello
Lots of damp leaves everywhere.....
finally my Schizostylis are flowering hurrah! - I bought a pot of them last year, and they are beautiful, if a bit droopy after all the rain the last two days, I may have to put some support in.
Aster is now looking amazing as well - Aster laevis Calliope
Mrs Popple fushia , (along with a lot of unknown pink ones!)
Japanese anemone still going strong
cyclamen pink and white
Penstemon
perennial creeping geranium
and a tiny evergreen creeping shrub with the daintiest little blue flowers is just coming out - I know I am getting old, as I have no idea what it is - I bought it last year for my bulb/spring/overwinter planter, and planted it out in the border in spring, and lost the tag

Honeysuckle in the front hedge. A few roses, surprised to see French lavender back in flower. Scabious, Dahlias, Japanese anemone, fuchsias, pelargoniums, cosmos, nemesia and verbena bonariensis. Waiting to put in pots are winter pansies

Asters! Purple ones that the old boy in the nursery told me to get when I bought my perennials.

They are really pretty. Also some cordyline has come out in a large pot. The ones in the ground have long given up and gone to seed.

My crab apple has had another flourish too, which is lovely against next door's huge buddleia.

Their bamboo however is seeking to overtake the world and is now about 12ft tall and growing up under our fence too. If that flowered I'd crack open the champagne, because they die when they have flowered.

Anastasie I sympathise. All 3 of the gardens I've owned have had invasive bamboo planted by previous owners. It came up through our patio this year. We've just had a new one laid with properly mortared joins. How I laughed when the bamboo was dug out with a digger.

Just hope the bastard stuff doesn't have the lasts laugh and reappear.

Crab apple in flower! This time of year!

Other people round here have amazing roses in their front gardens and also a very nice form of persicaria: low growing and trailing red over the brick walls