Saturday, June 15, 2013

Foxgloves

There is a sea of foxgloves in the woodland garden, which have just come into flower this weekend.  The colours vary from deep pink to purest white, with varying degrees of spottiness on their tongues.  And the amazing thing is that none of them were planted, they have just appeared here because they like it.  




June at Sunnyside

 The Sunnyside lupins are as monstrous as ever!  The colour pallet has changed a bit after moving some of the paler blue ones which were obscuring the climbing rose.  I might have to rearrange them next year.  I always look forward to these flowering, and they look fabulous in a vase too.
 Aquilegia William Guiness, bought from Wilkos for under £2 last year, they look absoulutely stunning, my favourite aquilegia in the garden. 
Persicaria bistorta 'superba', bought after being inspired by huge swathes of the stuff at Great Comp Garden. My little plant will be ripe for dividing in the autumn so I will be attempting to create my own swathe in the outhouse border.
This has been on my wishlist for some time.  Acquired this year, thalictrum delavayi, loving it's position in the dappled shade of the woodland garden.