My Top Ten July Plants.

Last month I wait round the garden and chose my ten darling flower . This is a unmanageable chore in summer when everything is blooming with such abundance . Still , rather than give everyone flowered indigestion , I thought it was a good idea to hone in on just ten that are giving me special delight and give a bit of advice on how to turn them . And I would love it if some of you could do the same . It does n’t have to be a bloom , leafage plant can be just as exciting .

Coming in at number , one we have the pristine flower ofCodonopsis grey -wilsonii‘Himel Snow ’ .

Codonopsis grey - wilsonii‘Himel Snow ’

Codonopsis grey-wilsonii‘Himel Snow’

You do n’t find this climbing plant in greenhouse very often because when they are in full growth in early summer , they distort everywhere and their string -like stems are very delicate and well damaged . I am not sure how stalwart codonopsis is but I farm mine in mess for three reasons . One , they may not be dauntless ; two , they like a slightly acidulous grease which I ca n’t give them in the background and three the young shoots are caviar to shellfish . Outside , they may be consume off before I have even noticed them . In the greenhouse I can keep my eye on them and only put them outside when they are growing strongly . I then put them against something they can sprawl over because they refuse to be hold by their supporting stakes . This plant used to be calledCodonopsis nepalensisas it comes from Nepal . It was renamed ‘ grey - wilsonii ‘ after Kit Grey - Wilson who has done a portion of work on Himalayan flora . They raise plenty of seed but the seedlings are improbably fragile and have to be left in a heap until the second year when you could treat the dormant tubers . I divide my fledged tubers when they are abeyant too .

Number two is another thoroughgoing white , elegant bloom , the Prickly Poppy , Argemone grandiflora . It is also called the Mexican Poppy , that is why I favor using Latin as it avoids confusion .

Argemone grandiflora

Codonopsis grey-wilsonii‘Himel Snow’

I think I will save some germ of this for my ‘ beach ’ as it has glaucous , thistly leave of absence and loves to relish in the sun . I have read that it is an one-year but I have had mine for three years .

July is a honorable time for true gamy flowers . Every body loves blue flower . I have chosen genus Eryngium today . They have bristly farewell which are very similar to those of the Prickly Poppy . The first is novel to me this year . On my beach I have establish the dumpyEryngium planum ‘ The Hobbit ’ . As the name suggest this is dwarf and thickset .

Eryngium planum‘The Hobbit ’

Argemone grandiflora

My favourite though isEryngium bourgatii‘Picos Blue ’ because this seems to be the intense bluing of them all . Even the fore are blue . Bees incur it resistless too .

genus Eryngium bourgatii‘Picos Blue ’

They usually come true from ejaculate but this year I have a seedling which is quite different . Ok , it is not the astonishing , electric blue of its parent but it is still very pretty .

Eryngium planum‘The Hobbit’

Seedling ofEryngium bourgatii‘Picos Blue ’

That is why I love develop thing from seed as there are often nice surprise . I have quite a few lily of the Nile in both grim and white . So agapanthus has to be number four . pay heed on , what am I utter about ? I should have put it at telephone number one , I make out agapanthus , which is appropriate as the name comes fromagape , the Greek for love . Three or possibly four year ago , ( I recede cart track ) I sow some seeds from two of them , ‘ Lewis Palmer ’ and a darker patrician one call ‘ Volga River ’ . They both have large forefront but so far , unlike many large - headed ones , they seem hardy . Lewis Palmer was the serviceman who break the lovely , hardy Headbourne hybrids which have quite small blossom .

Agapanthus‘Volga ’

Eryngium bourgatii‘Picos Blue’

My anxiously awaited first efflorescence have come up with some surprises . For a scratch they are not even all dark . And they vary in size astonishingly .

I am growing them on my beach , some in a large pot , others in the ground .

Some are sky- profane like this one . This is apparently a shaver ofA.’Lewis Plamer’But then I got this piddling snowy one with chocolate-brown anthers . How is that possible ? It is so pretty . This other white-hot one has big flowers with white-livered anthers .

Seedling ofEryngium bourgatii‘Picos Blue’

Some declamatory flowered ones are still in bud and are going to be later blooming . I ca n’t wait for this one to bloom , it has the largest bud of all .

But my greatest pleasure was appropriate for this exquisite stripey one .

Although delphiniums descend in a rattling range of blue colours , the one I am featuring is a July -blooming one in blue and violet- purpleness . For years I have hold dear a heartfelt petty twofold one call ‘ Alice Artindale ’ . This twelvemonth the type slug destroyed the shoot . But now there are other double unity in the Highlander range breed by Tony Coakley in Glasgow . I have ‘ Highlander Blueberry Pie ’ and I screw it so much I am going to look out for more in the grasp . The blossom are such pretty , frilly rosettes . The clematis on the fence isClematis viticella ‘ Alba Luxurians ’ .

Agapanthus‘Volga’

Delphinium‘Highlander Blueberry Pie ’

delphinium are greedy plants that need to be well fed and water . They need to be protect by what Sam from A coastal Plot blog calls ‘ our worthless foes ’ . They also postulate careful staking , although having said that this one is not gage and seems quite robust .

I do seem to be stuck on blues in July and as I love campanulas I have chosen a dear little July flowering one which I have uprise in my new crushed rock garden round the sundial . Its small pulverization blue blossom are double and it is an absolute sweety . It is calledCampanula cochlearifolia‘Elizabeth Oliver ’ . Like many double flowers it does n’t set seed but you may divide it in outpouring .

Campanula cochlearifolia‘Elizabeth Oliver .

I have to admit lilies because they are so attractively fragrant and I have to have some smellies on my list . Earlier lily such asLilium regale , Lilium candidumor my Martagon lilies were bust up by the beastly lily beetles . It seems to me that they are not quite as crazy for the giantOrienpetlilies , maybe the leaves are tougher . There were a few little ruby-red horrors but I was able to keep up with destroying them . I wo n’t go in to how I do it here as I have already revolted quite a few mass with earlier description . I rather like the ashen and redLilium‘Leslie Woodriff ’ although it is difficult to photograph because all the blossom look different ways .

Lilium‘Leslie Woodriff ’

I also jazz the pale yellow and white Orienpet lily ‘ Late Morning ’ .

Lilium‘late Morning ’ .

I have managed to protect the lovely oriental lily ‘ Lady Alice ’ although it was targeted by the little animate being in crimson coat . With her apricot and white flowers with brown freckles , she is a winner .

Lilium‘Lady Alice ’

My number eight is a works I mention every summer because I love it so much . It is the althaea take care - alikex Alcathaea suffrutescens‘Parkallee ’ . It is a cross betweenAlcea roseaand the marshmallow , Althaea officinalis . It never gets mildew and it mature enceinte and magniloquent and shaggy-haired every yr . Normally it blooms in August and September but this one is early this yr . It does n’t ready come but it is easy from cuttings so I have it all over the garden . The flowers are double and apricoty - coffee coloured .

Alcalthaea suffrutescens‘Parkallee ’

The anthers of each flower are violet . If you wish coffee -coloured bloom and I do , then a moderately one-year that I tried for the first time this yr isPhlox drummondii‘Café au Lait ’ . It is easy to grow and a little charmer .

Phlox drummondii‘Cafe au Lait ’

My last in the list is the gentle from seed Scabiosa purpurea . Last yr I had ‘ Beaujolais Bonnets ’ and Chile Black ’ and this yr I have a skillful intermixture of colours which have self seeded . They are so pretty and the butterfly adore them .

Scabiosa purpurea

Phew , this seems a long list , but I cheated a bit and gave more than ten plants . If you care to fall in me and give your ten very favored flora each month that would be bang-up . If you prefer a inadequate list than distinguish us about your favourite five plants .

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As always , the plant in your garden are mythologic ! Your beach area already looks expectant . My own Agapanthus are mostly , but not only , done and my Asian lily bulbs , last - minute bargain - basement , look to be no - appearance . But , perhaps I ’ll link my favorites list next hebdomad , once I ’ve cleared out a duet more Fling Post .

I love them all ! And I ’m intimate with all but the Codonopsis … and it ’s a stunner , with its snow - white blooms and reddish leaf . Gosh , picking the top 10 … that ’s tough . It transfer from year to year , but this twelvemonth , decent now , I will say Zinnia ‘ Zowie Yellow Flame , Cosmos bipinnatus , Lantana camara , Echinacea purpurea , Lilium ‘ Stargazer , ’ Helianthus annuus , Ligularia ‘ The Rocket , ’ Asclepias tuberosa , Fuchsia ‘ Marinka , ’ and Antirrhinum majus ( in no particular society ) . I ’m trusted I forgot some favourite , but those came to judgment .

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A fabulous top ten Chloris . Is n’t semen sowing full of surprises ? The seedling of eryngium ‘ Picos Blue ’ is so different from its parent . I already had the phlox on my list to try – after read your verbal description / seeing your picture I like that it was n’t too late to sow it now . I will try on to take part subsequently but may not get to ten 🙂

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My Top Ten July Plants.