GBBD August.

A day recently , but here I am with my share to Garden Bloggers ’ Bloom Day for August .

So many blogger grew wonderful dahlias last twelvemonth , which looked fantastic in a vase , so I was determined to assay out some new ones myself . I studied what everyone else was rise and made lists . Then suddenly sentence had expire by and it was too belated to tell anything , so I terminate up with a few shrivelled tubers that were left at the cheapy shop class .

Never listen , I am pleased with the results . I bang the path that the petals of ‘ Akita ’ are march in gold .

Dahlia ‘Akita’

Dahlia ‘ Akita ’

D. Contessa

‘ Contessa ’ is such a endearing tone of Bolshevik and I love the pompoms in vas . ‘Genova ’ and ‘ Musette ’ are two more pompoms which I plausibly would n’t have chosen if I had more choice .

Dahlia ‘Akita’

Dahlia ‘Akita’

D. Rebecca ’s World

I have enough more Dahlias which will before long be flower . Amongst them there are my own seed raise single . The speciesDahlia merckiialways get true from seed . I love its simple smasher .

Dahlia Merckii

D. Contessa

D. Contessa

I have plenty of young plants which set out off with The Bishop of LLandaff as parents . I have some like this shiny red one .

Dahlia Seedling

Mostly though , I am trying to grow them dingy and darker and so in another part of the garden , I have some like this . I make out the way that this one has a distinct stripe .

Musette

Dahlia seedling

This yr ’s babe are yet to flower so I am quite excited to see how they will wrick out .

Another plant which I used to dislike because of its ubiquity in suburban garden is Hydrangea . Now I love it .

D. Genova

Hydrangea aspera

The tall growingHydrangea asperahas lovely felty foliage . I get it on its two tone flower .

The prime ofHydrangea macrophylla‘Madame Emile Mouillere ’ are pure white and contrast attractively with the pink buds . I think it is one of the best whitened ones .

D. Rebecca’s World

D. Rebecca’s World

Hydrangea macrophylla ‘ Madame Emile Mouillere ’

I have the lovelyHydrangea arborescens‘Annabelle ’ with its large pear-shaped heads . I also enjoyHydrangea paniculata‘Limelight ’ , although mine is shrimpy compared with the one my Word grow on his jetty garden .

I am redesigning a shady part of my garden at the moment and I think I shall sure enough be adding a few hydrangeas . There are so many endearing hybrid around . I like the white ones withCrocosmia x crocosmiflora‘George Davison ’ and ferns .

Dahlia Merckii

Dahlia Merckii

August isAgapanthustime and I grow fate . In a declamatory pot I haveAgapanthus‘Lewis Palmer ’ . It has 20 heyday on it . Does everyone count their peak ?

Agapanthus‘Lewis Palmer ’

Aster x frikartii ‘ Monch ’

Dahlia Seedling

Dahlia Seedling

Still in blue , one of my delphiniums is blooming again after being deadheaded earlier . For highlights of the garden in pink , I would choose first of all the lovelyCrinum powelliwith its vast trumpet flower .

Crinum powellii

I have do to keep the dread lily mallet off this adorable tall , GoliathLilium‘Miss Freya ’

Dahlia seedling

Dahlia seedling

Other efflorescence moderately in pinkish are thePlatycodon grandiflorus‘Fuji Pink’growing with aPenstemon . Diascia personatablooms for weeks on end and is a mass of pink flowers . It is very soft from cuttings .

Diascia personata

For pink yearbook I do n’t think you’re able to beat the satiny flowers ofMalope trifida‘Vulcan ’ . This is neat as a cutting flower too .

Hydrangea aspera

Hydrangea aspera

There are some beautiful young intercrossed Echinaceas around but I find most of them do n’t survive for more than a year . The average pinkEchinacea purpureanot only continue coming back , but it seeds around too .

Echinacea purpurea

I have several Roscoeas , but I am peculiarly impressed with a new one call ‘ Monique ’ which is tall and long blossoming .

Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Madame Emile Mouillere’

Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Madame Emile Mouillere’

Roscoea beesiana ‘ Monique ’

Hollyhocks are coming to an end now , but this one , ‘ Halo Apricot ’ with a nice dark heart is still going secure .

Alcea ‘ Halo Apricot ’

Hydrangea arborescens ‘Annabelle’

A first cousin of the hollyhock is the wonderfulAlcalthaea suffrutescens‘Park Allee ’ . I have described this awful flora before on this blog , but each twelvemonth it gets good and better . The flowers are a satiny apricot pink colour . It is easy from cuttings , so I now have it all over the garden .

Alcalthaea suffrutescens ‘ Park Allee ’

I never used to likeKniphofiavery much . I was put off by the horrible red spicy fire hook , Kniphofia‘Atlanta ’ which was all you ever saw at one time . There are some endearing hybrids now . I have it away the peachy salmon,”Timothy ’ .

Hydrangea paniculata ‘Limelight’

Kniphofia ‘ Timothy ’

I will speak about what is run short on in my August pots in another mail , as this is turn out to be rather too tenacious . To see other Garden Bloggers ’s Bloom mean solar day around the world , please go over toMaydreamgardenswhere Carol hosts this pop meme .

51 Responses toGBBD August.

For perplex off to a late start with the dahlias , you certainly did well with them ! I have sex both ‘ Akita ’ and ‘ Rebecca ’s World ’ . I ’m especially jealous of the Delphinium , which are nigh on unimaginable to produce in Southern California . As to the Agapanthus , I usually note the first reaching but give up the counting until the ending of the time of year , when I count all the spent bloom stalks I bring down . It and the Aster frikartii seem to be the only works we share and my Aster is presently frying to a Saratoga chip .