July 20th to July 26th
Weather: High pressure is still trying to bring us summer but hasn’t really got a grip
Maggie Youdan returns to lead the way this week, with some beautiful clematis
Only celebrity weeds are permitted in Sue Gray’s garden
‘Little Weed’ looking for Bill and Ben – with apologies to anyone too young to remember! 
Cenolophium denudatum 
Corydalis ‘Blackberry Wine’, Thalictrum ramosum and Peltoboykinia watanabei 
Epilobium ‘White Wonder Bells’ and Geum ‘Scarlet Tempest’, now in the 4th month of flowering! 
Helenium ‘Sahin’s Early Flowerer’ 
Penstemon ‘Stapleford Gem’ – I think! 
Penstemons, foreground ‘Osprey’ and background pink ‘Pennington Gem’ a.k.a. ‘June’ 
Potentilla ‘Arc en Ciel’, an unknown small Astilbe and Actaea 
Potentilla ‘Gloire de Nancy’. Much as I like ‘Arc en Ciel’ I have to admit that the flowers are almost identical and ‘G de N’ is much more floriferous 
Roscoea cautleyoides ‘Kew Beauty’
Maggie Sugden has a Penstemon bought as ‘Sour Grapes’ – we’ve also seen P. ‘Stapleford Gem’ recently, which looks very similar. RHS say they are the same thing, but are they? Discuss
And some strange goings-on chez Hackett?
Princess Diana, draped all over the Green Man 
Rosa ‘Ethel’ – starting to reach up into the trees and flowers later than the musk ramblers 
Veronicastrum virginicum ‘Fascination’ – fasciated, hence the name! 
Lysimachia ‘Candela’. A very well behaved Lysimachia that doesn’t have the annoying habit of dying like L. Beaujolais (so far) 
Hydrangea quercifolia 
Gaura lindheimeri ‘The Bride’. Grown from HPS seed 
Echinops ritro with its inevitable bumble bee companion – a white-tail I think 
Crocosmia ‘Lucifer’ in front of Angelica sylvestris ‘Vicar’s Mead’. I frequently try to control both, with little success 
Clematis ‘Polish Spirit’ – very prolific 
Boykinia rotundifolia – has been in bud for a while!
