I’m a day late for GBBD and have again not touched my garden for over a week due to a trip to Northumberland. It was planned to coincide with picking up our daughter from uni in Durham, but sadly it also coincided with cold, misty, rainy weather, however I expect I’ll still share some garden visits, even if they’re rather grey!
I took these GBBD photos on my return from London this evening and these too are reflecting the rainy weather. Bearing in mind my recent multiple absences a degree of skillful camera work was also required to avoid capturing large swathes of convolvulus…..
So, despite the rain, June is all about the roses. My roses aren’t quite in the same league as the wonderful NT garden at Mottisfont I visited a couple of years ago, but I added some new ones last year, so the number is growing. The top one, by the front gate, has a lovely scent but was inherited so I’m afraid I don’t know its name.
Below, one of the new roses last year, Jubilee Celebration, already a favourite,
later turns into this.
In the same bed are both Rosa ‘Munstead Wood’ (looking here rather paler than reality)
and climbing Rosa ‘Falstaff’
Another inherited rose in the Lavender bed is a very similar colour to
this Sarah Bernhardt peony.
On the pergola posts either side of the swing are Rosa ‘St Swithun’
and Rosa ‘Korizont.’
In the Bronze Beds the Pat Austin roses which featured in my last Monday vase, have been joined by self seeded Nasturtium ‘Caribbean Crush’
and this poppy, Papaver nudicale ‘Party Fun’
I’m delighted that another poppy, Papaver somniferum ‘Lauren’s Grape,’ has reappeared in the Mid Century bed.
Here too the Lysmachia atropurpurea, grown from seed last year, is filling out
and has now been joined by a self seeded Malope trifida ‘Vulcan’. I’ve grown more Malope from seed this year, but they’re all still sitting in a seed tray in the greenhouse.
The Alliums in the drive bed, Allium ‘Violet Beauty’, haven’t returned well from their introduction last year, but those that did return are looking good now. Sadly, I’d added some new tulips, also called ‘Violet Beauty’ to join them, but the tulips came and went weeks ago. Back to the drawing board.
And to finish Meconopsis baileyi, a present from the OH for my birthday. I wonder if I’ll mange to have it blooming this time next year?
With thanks to Carol at May Dreams Gardens who hosts everyone’s GBBD.
Gorgeous blooms and very pretty with the raindrops. I’m particularly taken with roses ‘Jubilee Celebration’ and ‘St Swithun’. Lovely.
Good to see your lovely roses – and interesting to know you have grown lysimachia from seed…might give that a try. I wonder what gdns you visited in Northumberland…
Absolutely gorgeous! Your roses are spectacular! And I’m really in love with that ‘Lauren’s Grape’ poppy…fantastic.
Hopefully, if you visited gardens in Northumbria, you’ll let us have a look? I do wish people would stop posting pictures of St Swithen’s – I’m going to be forced to order more roses now! Yours photos are lovely, and beautifully enhanced by the rain! Like Sherl, have fallen for P. somniferum ‘Lauren’s Grape’ – how toothsome are those flowers!
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