What's flowering in your garden at the moment?

[TheSpottedZebra]

My garden looks shocking at the moment and it's getting me down. It's patched and there is no colour. I've kept on top of the mowing and bean-growing, a d maintained a couple of pots but it's mostly looking... bad.

I had a horrible bereavement early July and things have been tough since, so it's gone to pot. Plus the weather, and ALL THE SLUGS... All my annuals are long-dead.

Anyway, I want next year to not look so miserable and shite. I have a few sweet peas, but they're actually riddled with greenfly so a bit grim up close. Other than that, it's brownish and sad.

Please inspire me with what's flowering in your garden? Ideally perennials as annuals seem a big old faff to me currently. Not dahlias as I never manage to store them properly and they rot.

Oh, I'm on heavy old clay which is all cracked right now.

I’ve got white and pink phlox and pink and blue hibiscus in flower right now.

Hibiscus? That sounds tropical!

A pomegranate in a pot, purple toadflax and some roses. That's pretty much it.

My passion flower has decided to flower now. Pinks still in flower and salvia still in flower. Sunflowers about to open?! Not quite sure what's happening in my garden!

I'm looking for more perennials and year rounds intereat. I've started an evergreen clematis and some star jasmine .

Geranium Rozane, flowers all summer, and the kniphofia is looking gorgeous, I have a yellow one.

Sorry to hear about your bereavement. Currently in flower in the rainy north - potentilla with white flowers, astrantia in pink and white, sweet peas just about hanging in, nigella, borage, last of the nasturtiums.
what’s eaten by slugs or just drowned? Everything else!!

Oh and weirdly clematis reubens are having a second go, and hardy geraniums.

Rudbeckia and echinops, they flower for ages. A couple of roses still are, one is Ronald Dahl, the other I don't know. And the cranesbill geranium! It's a winner.

Rudbeckia Goldsturm is a picture at the moment. Dahlias, verbena bonariensis, heleniums are coming back into flower ( great value, imo) and my latest love, Bistorta amplexicaulis 'Blackfield' which flowers all summer.

Oh yes, and as above, cranesbill geranium, in a lovely purple.

I don't have any Hardy geraniums and I don't know know why. They'd at least cover the cracks! Do they do OK in dry conditions, once they're settled in?

My rudbeckia was GLORIOUS last year but got slugged this year and just could not outgrow the damage, even through I put down pellets and defensive barriers!

Roses, may e I should get more?They do quite well in my clay. I've really only got climbers but maybe I need some shrubby ones?

Roses, geraniums, salvia, monarda, campanulas, something I think is rudbeckia. Dianthus are coming back for another go. Lavender is on it's way out. Anaphalis very happy suppressing weeds in an area the hostas got eaten alive, am definitely planting more next year.

And my pride and joy, my canna lilies. However it remains to be seen if I can keep them alive for another year.

Japanese anemone and rudbeckia are glorious right now in my Scottish garden. My wallflowers are having a moment (one of many moments) too.
I've a few roses out still - ballerina will continue for another month, it's a right powerhouse.

Hydrangeas limelight and Annabelle still in full bloom
garden is full of full blooming Agapanthus
Dahlia tubers that I planted in pots in early July are now in full bloom
Ostespernum still going strong

Jasmine, wallflowers, clematis, gladioli, lavender, roses, cyclamen, budhlia, campanula, 'sea holly', sunflowers, lobelia, late flowering rhododendron and heather.

Rudbekia and another tall yellow daisy whose name I have forgotten; echinops; tansy; crocosmia (gorgeous this year) and Japanese anemones. Tall phlox in pots. (Get slugged in the ground). And a couple of massive pink and white clematis - i think viticella? All my successful plants are fairly 'basic' varieties, with thuggish tendencies. Anything a bit fancy (like my expesive knipfofias) seems to get either slugged, swamped or both her (fertile clay, west Welsh borders)

I lost my mum in June so it’s been a sad summer for me too. Currently I have a rose trooping on (my mums favourite so I give it a daily sniff), salvias, some dahlias (but most have been badly nibbled), hibiscus, Californian poppies, sunflowers (not as good as last years lot) and geraniums of all types.

I do actually love purple toadflax when I see it, so maybe i should introduce some!

Nothing here. Not sure what we’ve done wrong.

My rudbeckia are fantastic. They are annuals but they were very easy to grow from seed & they absolutely fill the borders with colour. Also cosmos & zinnia. Again easy from seed. I do wish they were perennial though.

sedum, geraniums (various types), astrantia, roses, verbena bonariensis, verbascum, lavender, crocosmia

Jasmine, plumbago, salvia, pinks.
I don't have much planted that flowers currently

It's been a grotty old year, hasn't it?

Verbena Bonariensis, Kniphofia, Geums, Lleucanthemums, Thunbergia, Nepeta, Echinops, Lavender, Giant Artichoke Thistle, Buddleia, Echinacea, lots of different Salvias, Chocolate Cosmos, lots of Dahlias (sorry 😁), Sunflowers, Roses, Crocosmia, Caryopteris, Hibiscus, Heucheras still have some flower spikes, various Geraniums, Alstromeria, Scabiosa, Heleniums, Perennial Cornflower, Rhodanthemum, Rudbeckia, Achillea, Coreopsis and some violas that I cut back and have popped up again for a second flowering. Probably spelt lots wrong there.

Oh Tradescantia too and Sedum just coming out.

Really sorry to hear that. I like the idea of her favourite rose 'trooping on'.