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
Clematis ‘Abundance’ with Clematis ‘Etoile Violette’
Clematis ‘Etoile Violette’ with Rosa ‘Blush Noisette’
Clematis ‘Hagley Hybrid’
Clematis heracleifolia ‘Cassandra’
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
Bought as Penstemon ‘Sour Grapes’
Rosa ‘The Alnwick Rose’
Hemerocallis ‘Little Grapette’
Helenium’Moerheim Beauty’
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!