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Post by Cherry on Aug 2, 2013 21:54:25 GMT
Bess I wish I had your eye for colour. I just love the clashing colours in the first pic and your yellows in the second. What a great display. @hywel the Veronicastrum is very nice. It is certainly not too much trouble to click on to make the pic larger, but when I'm tired, I seem to switch off the forum completely, although I don't mean to.
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Post by Geranium on Aug 3, 2013 4:29:38 GMT
I just did the same - it's very early as I couldn't sleep (again!) so I expect I'm not functioning properly. Bess, I really like the combination with the orange lily. It works well. I like Veronicastrums too, @hywel. I have a white one as well as 'Fascination'. Hooray! Tinypic has worked this morning, so I can show you the rather garish Dahlia - it looks lovely in the catalogue but awful in my garden. This is supposed to be 'Akita'. I have it in a pot with white begonias, and it looked out of place against my pinks and mauves in the top border. Seaburn's bright idea was to chop off all the flowers! My solution was less drastic - I asked my husband to move the pot yesterday. It looks better at the other side of the garden. Here's my large-flowered Hemerocallis - and I've forgotten its name - it might occur to me later. While we were looking round the garden on Thursday we were surrounded by butterflies - and there were four Peacock butterflies on the Inulas. I managed to take a photo of one of them. They were back yesterday, too - such a lovely sight.
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Post by SueA on Aug 3, 2013 19:09:46 GMT
Love all the lilies Lou78W & Bess & your lovely pink/mauve/lilac combo @hywel . That's a whopper of a hemerocalis Geranium ! Great pic. of the peacock butterfly as well, we've had loads of them suddenly on the buddleia this week too.
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Post by Bess on Aug 3, 2013 21:49:04 GMT
Ooh I like the butterfly photo too - you got it just right. I wish we got more butterflies in town, I rarely see one. I'm always chuffed I actually get bees! I'm not sure if I like your 'garish' Dahlia or not though, Geranium! It's very bright and cheerful but I'm not quite sure it co-ordinates with its own colour scheme, yet alone any other flowers
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Post by Geranium on Aug 4, 2013 4:52:02 GMT
Well, you can tell that I certainly don't like it, Bess. I have three more 'Akita' plants in the greenhouse, too - I shall have to give them away to someone who likes them - if I can find anyone! I know what not to order next year, don't I.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2013 7:37:41 GMT
I can't say I like your Dahlia either, Geranium. It reminds me of a blood orange
I do like the butterfly though. I've only seen white ones here so far this year.
I thought I'd show a photo of this lovely variegated Hebe. I like the mauve flowers against the stripy foliage
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Post by SueA on Aug 4, 2013 20:10:10 GMT
Pretty hebe @hywel , I had a couple very similar a few years ago but lost them one year in a very cold winter.
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Post by peony on Aug 5, 2013 15:24:02 GMT
Very attractive Hebe Hywel, I like the contrast of the variegated leaves with the purple flowers. I don't have much luck with Hebe plants, I think my soil is too free-draining.
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Post by peony on Aug 6, 2013 13:00:23 GMT
A few of my August flowers - Hedychium gardnerianum Aster Turk's cap lily (with LB on the bud behind which was soon squished!)
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Post by Cherry on Aug 6, 2013 15:24:41 GMT
They are fabulous peony. You could not afford to let the lily beetle make a meal of a Turk's Cap Lily. They are stunning and expensive.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2013 17:48:16 GMT
Very attractive Hebe Hywel, I like the contrast of the variegated leaves with the purple flowers. I don't have much luck with Hebe plants, I think my soil is too free-draining. Thank you. I thought Hebes liked free draining soil. Lovely photos of your plants. I like that Aster a lot.
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Post by peony on Aug 6, 2013 18:59:01 GMT
They are fabulous peony. You could not afford to let the lily beetle make a meal of a Turk's Cap Lily. They are stunning and expensive. Thank you Cherry They've taken a couple of years to get established but this year they have lots of flowers.
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Post by Bess on Aug 6, 2013 19:19:24 GMT
The spikey orange plant is new to me - Hedychium - it's a lovely shape. I read up about it and was surprised to read it's a 'weed of concern' in NZ and other places. Can't imagine living somwhere where something that exotic looking is a weed! I also think the Turk's Cap is gorgeous, again, such a nice shape. Weirdly enough when I was younger I didn't like them at all. I guess I matured?
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Post by Cherry on Aug 6, 2013 20:37:43 GMT
Bess, last year I was at a specialist ginger nursery in Northern Queensland. I would have to describe it with that overused word 'amazing'. We could not move in the car because of the gingers my daughter bought, along with a paw paw and something else.
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Post by SueA on Aug 7, 2013 13:27:47 GMT
Lovely pics. peony , the bees like your flowers too! A few more lilies out here now, White Triumphator - beautiful scent- Double lily - Speedstar Found a single Stargazer lily in a pot down the garden, bit tatty but pretty & smells lovely. Peacock butterfly on the buddleia, still lots of butterflies in the garden.
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