Top Ten July Blooms.

My favourite July bloom are dahlias and agapanthus , but these beauties deserve posts of their own or else of being bundled in with the also - rans . So coming up presently will be post about my ‘ seashore garden ’ where the agapanthus live and the ‘ Henri Rousseau ’ garden where all my fab dahlias create a jungle upshot . But today ’s inclination has some endearing blooms too .

countenance ’s start out with fragrance and I think it is worth combat lily beetles and killing them gruesomely each mean solar day to enjoy these beauties . My favourite is the astonishing ‘ Silk Road ’ . It is an ‘ Orientpet’lily , that is a crossbreeding between Oriental and Trumpet lilies . It is a giant , growing to 180 cm . It has huge gloriously fragrant peak . I love it and next year I shall have it produce in extravagant copiousness .

Growing in my hobo camp , I have , fitly enough , ‘ African Queen ’ which is an Asiatic cornet lily in a gorgeous soft apricot .

Erigeron ‘Sea Breeze’

In my secret garden I have two lilies in bloom at the moment , one is another apricot one , at least she is white with apricot centre spot with brown , she has lovely reflexed petals and gorgeous stamens . ‘ Lady Alice ’ is a real aristocrat .

Also in the secret garden I have anotherorientpetlily but not such a colossus as ‘ Silk Road ’ . It has the unromantic name of ‘ Leslie Woodriff ’ .

In a boundary line I have the deepest , darkest lily imaginable telephone ‘ Night Flyer ’ .

Erigeron ‘Sea Breeze’

Talking about fly , I have a newfangled Asiatic lily here call ‘ pinkish Flight ’ .

I find it unsufferable to pick out just one lily for my top ten bloom but if I extend on like this and show you all the clematis and all the different jasmine we will be here all day , and so I will make it snappy and pick out just one of each . This is unmanageable specially with the clematis because now is the metre for the lovelytexensisandviticellahybrids which I adore . But still I will choose just oneviticellaand it is the gorgeousClematis‘Purpurea Plena Elegans ’ . Here it is look majuscule in my secret garden .

move swiftly on , although it seems very rude to ignore the beautiful Clematis ‘ Betty Corning ’ , let ’s look at the fabulously namedJasminum officinale‘Clotted Cream ’ It bears an abundance of orotund blooms which are in fact just the color of clot cream and I chose to boast this one because I sink it every time I go to the greenhouse and it smells divine , although it does n’t await expert all twelvemonth round like my favourable leaved one , Jasminum officinale”Fiona ’s Surprise ’ .

Another scrumptiously fragrant social climber isTrachelospermum and I have a golden- leaved one and a pink blossom one , but today I will just show you the one skin up the bulwark and judge to creep in the windowpane . It isTrachelospermum jasminoidesand as well as the glorious sweetness , its leaves ferment red in winter . It is sometimes called Star Jasmine but this is misleading because although it has starry flower it is not a jasmine at all

Fragrance is another characteristic of my act five flush . It is the Mount Etna broom and when mature it make a Inner Light , airy tree with white-livered pea - comparable flowers . Genista aetnensisis endemic to Sicily and also Sardinia where it acquire in poor , stony dirt . I have it in my crushed rock garden . Here it is with the pink , bushyDiascia personata .

And now for something entirely dissimilar and rather uncommon . genus Echium webbiiis endemical to the Canary Islands where it is restricted to the Island of La Palma . It is rarely hear for sale here and I am grateful to my lovely Quaker Maggie for this gorgeous flora . It also grows in my crushed rock , but is is quite tender so it spent its first year in the greenhouse and survived last winter in the garden under a blanket of several layers of sheepskin . I have read that it is two-year , but I have also learn that it survives for several years although it is short lived . But never mind , it is well-to-do from cuttings . This year it is flowering for the first time and I am thrilled with it . The flowers are a beautiful shade of down and the bee have it away it too . You have plausibly seen the soar upwards steeple ofEchium pininana.butEchium webbiis a rounded and shrubby .

I have another shrub which I do n’t think is in particular rare but most visitant do n’t recognise it . It isBupleurum fruticosumand it come from sunny hills and rocky places in the Mediterranean . I imagine it would make a good seaboard plant life . I bonk umbellifers and this plant has umbels of atomic number 16 yellow flowers which look like little buttons . It has attractive foliation so it look good all year round . It is a great plant for pollinators , although I am not sure about the unity here ; a wasp and suspicious look beetles which will probably wreak mayhem somewhere when they have wind up sunbathe themselves . I have often been asked for a piece of this plant life but so far I have had no success with cutting .

I love apricot coloured flowers and I love mallows soSphaeralacea ambiguais a achiever for me and it is such a gorgeous soft peach which look sodding withKniphofia‘Timothy ’ and the jumbo grassStipa Gigantea .

I have it off the elegant spires ofVeronicastrum virginicum‘Fascination ’ and I do n’t acknowledge why I only have one plant , I would like to have the pointy fingers popping up all over the garden .

I will polish off with a hydrangea and this meter I am happy not to show all the I I grow because most of them are not to be boasted about , the poor thing clamber . I do n’t know why I stay with them when it is really too juiceless for them here . But I do have one which is happy because it is lucky to live in one of the muffler parts of the garden . It was a newspaper clipping which I wreak from my old garden and I sleep with it for its clusters of tiny flowers . It is calledHydrangea macrophylla ‘ Ayesha ’ . I register somewhere that they are slightly fragrant but I have never got round to sniff them . Ayesha is pretty in pink but I suppose in an vitriolic soil she would be lilac or even blue .

So here are my July peach , please join me and show us some of yours . In the meanwhile I am lamentable to lack out so many lovely July flowers so I am move to put a few of them in a gallery .

31 Responses toTop Ten July Blooms.

They are all just fabulous , Loved the apricot mallow .

Wow ! Such a delightful variety ! I do miss the jasmines from the South . A star jasmine climbed up the place of our front entry in Orlando , and mantle jasmine grow under the kitchen window of my Mother ’s house in Pensacola . I wonder if a jasmine would grow out here in Yakima , in a protected topographic point ?

As always , you have a glorious range of blooms . I adore lilies but they do poorly here , although I have one noID variety I obtain as a gift with purchase that ’s returned for several twelvemonth , make me desire to labour my fate and order more lily bulb to try . Your ‘ African Queen ’ is magnificent ! Echium webbii was short - dwell by comparison to other Echium here but my first one held on for 3 year . It did n’t reply well to pruning so I replaced it this year . A California ring armour order nursery routinely offer it but I ’ll sample growing it from a carving next time as I do love it . I have n’t seen flowers this year yet but then it ’s a late summer / early fall botch here .

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Top Ten July Blooms.