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.

Wow, so many replies, and so much inspiration -thank you so much!

I've also just seen a free p+p weekend for Farmer Gracy so later I shall get some mint tea (my mint isn't dead, yay!) and comb over this thread happily and see what I need.

I think definitely more roses, maybe a late (ie now)- flowering clematis as mine are all early, certainly some geraniums.... Phlox? I might need phlox too. And probably some more.

Thank you again.

If you are looking for roses have a browse of Trevor White Roses. They are a specialist rose nursery. I've bought several from them. Their prices are generally very good, they deliver quickly and the plants arrive in excellent condition.

Loads still, gladioli, hydrangea, various marguerites/daisies, pansies, forget me not, and others, but I can't remember the names

Forget-me-not? That's surprising - unless they're water forgetmenots which I think have a longer flowering period.

I’m still waiting for the one remaining cafe au lait dahlia to bloom after its friends got chomped by snails and slugs in late spring. My cosmos is just starting to bloom. My phlox is quite lovely. As are the zinnias. The ornamental grasses have been good and the hydrangeas. Sweet peas eventually flowered but are a bit pathetic. Lots of strawberries. Astrantia looks great. I’m definitely not filling endless vases this year as I usually would.

I’m sorry to hear about your loss op.
I hope you get some joy from your garden once more.

Our Chrysanthemums look great this year - they almost don’t look real.
Dahlias blooming again.
Jasmine, salvias, cosmos, cornflower, some poppies, sunflowers, we have 2 climbing roses which are looking lovely this year, passion flower, lilies, Agapanthus, small aliums, some clematis & a lovely forget-me-not looking plant in all shades of blue and indigo my dad gave me (I’ve forgotten the name)
Zinnia in the borders - so colourful & cheerful, they look wonderful. It’s the first time we’ve grown them. We don’t normally go for annuals but will definitely plant again next year.
Several types of flowering grasses which look beautiful this time of year, especially in the evening sun.

The majority of our plants are potted as we don’t have a lawn. I love moving them around & trying out different groupings. Hardly any slugs either.

In Central Scotland, the crocosmia and rudbeckia are blooming beautifully at the minute warming up the grey days with their orange and yellow :)

Roses . The bedding plants that survived slugmageddon. Lythrum . Salvia hot lips and four more large salvias . ( in flower 9 months of the year here in the East Midlands) . Star Jasmine . Nasturtium. Hydrangeas, Annabelle and an unknown one . White Buddliea Hardy Fuschia . Cosmos . The two surviving Dahlias. And Fleabane . Very established garden though .

I think the usual garden forget-me-not is a variety of wood forget-me-not which is earlier flowering. I think I ran into a Field Forget-me-not last week, and I think (if memory serves me right) that Changing Forget-me-not is later. There are other species. And as you say, Water Forget-me-not is later flowering.

GymClassHeroes Could your forget-me-not look-alikes be lobelias?

I have some forget-me-nots currently in flower on a gravel path in a damp corner of the garden, alongside stonecrop (not flowering but spreading contentedly) and prunella vulgaris, for which it seems to have been a very good year. I haven't tried identifying the variety of forget-me-not.

I've got forget me not seedlings coming up I think. I'm confused as shouldn't they come up after winter??

Yes! That’s the one. Thank you.
It’s a beauty, My mum & dad have loads in their garden, they’ve been in flower for ages. My dad finally got my hints and gave me some of his😁

Lavender is still beautiful, a buddleia looking a bit straggly but amazing. My favourite fuschia is having a second wind.

My piece de resistance this year is a red hot poker plant. Bought 2 years ago in a 4” pot (and split further as I was skint) it has over 50 flower spikes and has survived the horrible weather. It is MAGNIFICENT.

Sobbing at my beautiful hostas though, fucking slugs

Japanese anemones, jasmine, bush roses, hydrangeas, hypericum, lavender, mint, fennel, clematis amethyst beauty, montbretia and good old pelargoniums.