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 just started getting loads of strawberries and chillis, all of the roses are still in bloom and some lobelia and African daisies in chimney pots , the grass in getting ready to overseed , I have rhododendrons, camelias and magnolia which have already flowered but still nice and green and next door has passion flower coming through our trellis fence top

Erigeron and Persicara a few crocosmia and a very poorly salvia in a big pot

My garden is largely overshadowed by a huge lime tree along with sticky black sap.
ive been waiting for it to be pruned for several years

From the top
Shrubby Salvias still flowering their socks off
White phlox
Pink phlox
Lilac phlox
Digiplexis
Cosmos
Roses Iceberg and Blush Noisette (second flush)
Trachelospermum white and yellow
Leucanthemum
Penstemons
Geraniums Rozanne and Azure Blue
Toadflax (second flush)
Calibrachoa
Rhodanthemum
Hydrangeas
Asters
Fuchsias
Evening Primrose
Anthemis
Cornflowers
Gauras
Snapdragons
Clematis
Verbena
Lychnis
Gypsophila
Jasione
Scabious
Osteospermum
Crocosmia
Pelargoniums and some lobelia still going but have composted quite a few this week.

Just to qualify, I am retired and have been in the garden pretty much every day
since March because my DH also decided to retire and become the bane of my previously independent existence and if I don't go in the garden I don't get any time to myself at home because he doesn't ever go any where so that's probably why its still looking so good.

Sedums, lavender, Japanese anenome, geraniums, hostas, heuchera, crocosmia.

Geranium Rozane on my allotment. Slugs don’t eat it and it seems ok on clay. Flowers for ages.

Japanese anemone. They keep going until the first hard frosts.
Crocosmia, even though we thought they had been dug up when the raised bed was re-built. (same for the anemone in that patch)
A hydrangea that isn't your traditional pink/blue one. It took a few years to get established but it's been spectacular, this year. You and me something or other is the variety.

Roses, scabious, phlox, Mexican fleabane, salvias, potentilla, thyme in a hanging basket, I have a low growing plant which has tall stems with red flowers on the top with little circles of darker red on each petal but I can't remember what it's called, and lavender! How can I forget!

Hebe still flowering, passionflower, French lavendar (English looking shabby now), tangerine geums 2nd flowering, hydrangeas and salvia hot lips tons of flowers. Rozanne of course.

One blackberry bush taking over everything. A butterfly bush growing in a crack in the wall of the garage that fails to succumb to poison.

I've got a hundred green tomatoes that are holding out on turning red.

The sad skeletons of all the things the slugs ate: marigolds, sunflowers, all the brassicas, and my patience.

And some roses that neighbouring tenant left but I pretend are ours because every success counts.

My toadflax is mostly burnt out (it does remind me of sparklers, the way the flowers open)

A neighbour has a great big mound of rudbeckia that I rather like but the gap I need to fill might be too damp and shady for most of the year.

lovely thread…Following for ideas 🌻

I've got a wrap-around garden with the house plonked in the middle, so walking around it in my mind's eye ....

Japanese anemone, hebe, penstamon, lace cap hydrangea, rambling roses, bush roses, flowering currant (long-since flowered, they're a Spring flowerer), sea holly, sweet pea, peony, mock orange, digitalis, more sweet pea, more hydrangea, buddleia.

The two star performers in my garden this year have taken me by surprise, because they were very very slow starters and have taken all these months to finally shine:

1. clematis (4 varieties growing up and over our low stone wall)
2. dahlia (dinner plate, cactus, pom-poms). I'm hoping the weather behaves itself for the next few weeks as I'm hoping to enter them into the dahlia category of the village Flower and Produce Show in early Sept.

ETA - rockery with lots of alpines and a bed full of lavender that the bees are going mad for atm.

sorry for your loss @TheSpottedZebra and @Sourisblanche

Still going strong- snapdragons, marigolds, dahlias, hydrangeas, verbena, sea holly, clary sage, honeysuckle, fuchsia, diascia
On the way out- sweet peas, nasturtiums, lobelia, lavender, alyssum, heuchera

I always buy my roses from David Austin. I have a Lady of Shalott just budding and coming back into flower for the 2nd time this year and I have a Gabriel Oak just starting to bud (again a second flowing) - they are in their own 60L plastic pots and have been fantastic.

We're just about to order 2 more for pots - we narrowed it down to Kew Gardens, Emily Brontë and Scarborough Fair.

We already have Malvern Hills (rambler) and Claire Austin (climber) planted up against a wooden fence panel - I've strung wires between concrete fences posts (fixed a wooden baton to them).

In Scotland, rudbeckia, solidago, marguerites, several hydrangeas, roses (the fairy scrubby ones go for ages here), dahlias just emerging, hemerocallis calla and stargazer lillies looking glorious, ground cover hardy geraniums, aubretia and ablaze with colour along with cerastium, lobelia and fuschia, some pansies on their 3rd/4th showing and sunflowers nearly out.

The strawberries and raspberries are flowering/fruiting and the blueberries just finished with flowers, but looking good all covered in green berries.

In my wee plastic greenhouse, tomatoes, peppers and chillies still flowering, but also fruiting. I have squashes at various stages of flowering/ fruiting.

Baskets have pelargonium, surfinia and calibrachoa, as do pots around the front door.

I have a Gabriel Oak! It's sad as I went away for a week and it got dry in the pot, it's doing it's best.

My other roses are Wildeve. Love David Austin. I basically ignored my roses for years and they still kept trying. This year I pruned them down completely, fed them and mulched with manure. They can't belive their luck and have gone bonkers with flowers.

Agapanthus, snapdragons, a blue ground cover plant whose name I can’t remember. Might be Lithodora. The odd herb Robert and Michaelmas daisy that sneaked in.

Crocosmia torment me. I have tried to eradicate them from my raised beds but they always, always come back. I want the bed to be for veg, but the crocosmia just is not willing to give up!

Tomatoes, hundreds of flowers but very little fruit. the teeny tomatoes and they are teeny are still very green. The Hydrangeas are just about finished. My Echinacea flowers are beautiful though as is my fuscia and my hanging baskets are just stunning and are touching the floor

My persicaria firetail looks fab right now - and always covered in bees. One of my favourites in my garden. They will spread a bit over the years so give them a good bit of room. Not out of control though.

I spent hours pulling Crocosmia out last autumn and thought I had got every last one but the bastards are back and have taken over what was a lovely flower bed. Will destroy them this year!

My garden is a work in progress and I don't have many perennials in place yet (although the bargain-shelf achillea are flowering like crazy) but I put in masses of antirrhinums, osteospermums, cosmos and gazanias at the start of the summer and they're still cheering the place up. My dwarf sunflowers have been taking their time but they look as if they'll start to flower within the next week or two.

Jasmine and echinops. They need no care at all, they just get on with it year after year. I do cut back the jasmine from time to time so that it doesn't get woody and dense with clusters of old dry stems, but that's really all I do.

The Jasmine is delightfully fragrant, especially in the evenings, and the Echinops look so striking, and such a beautiful blue. Bees love both. Echinops seem vulnerable to blackfly, but although it looks bad, it nevver seems to affect the flowering.

I am hopeless with gardening and the names of the different flowers/ shrubs but can honestly say that the SLUGS has been revolting…I counted 50 this evening on our fairly average sized lawn and decking!! Any top tips please? Looked at slug pellets but couldn’t find any that are safe with dogs .

Sorry for your loss. How about a trip to the garden centre for some bulbs for next spring? Not looking too bad here really. Front garden Geranium Rozanne, lambs ears and pink geum. Sweet peas, white busy lizzies, nemesia, and fuschia in pots. Tall white Anemone making an early appearance under a tree with almost blue leaf hostas which the slugs don’t bother with.
Round the back we still have scabious, verbena bonearis and the last of the roses. The slugs have decimated the couple of hanging baskets I bothered with and the variegated hostas.