July, daytime highs of 15 degC, northerly winds, cloud and rain. I guess I should feel fortunate. It’s a chilly summer, but the flowers seem to love it and last for ages. Food harvest is slow, I have not harvested even broad beans yet, though the strawberries are fabulous this year. I opted for flowers this week, hoping I’ll be able to show you SOME veg further into July. In liu of sunshine, here are some sunshine yellows for my #SixOnSaturday.
Starting with this week’s one edible, as you can see, it’ll be a while before my greenhouse tomatoes are ready. This year’s slow growth is producing lots of flowers, so fingers crossed for an autumn harvest. I do love the spiky detail on the stems of tomato.
Around the pond, native monkey-flowers loves a damp bottom. The bright orange runway lights for bees make the flower seem complex and exotic.
In the main garden borders, lysmachia spread fast, but do look stunning for a couple of weeks in July.
Another native, ladise mantle provides a fluffy bloom offering colour for weeks. Though these plants are reall thugs, their roots even lift garden path cobbles.
Phlomus is another of my favourite border plants, lots of fascinating form, seems to look a little alien?
Last this week, lots of shades of yellow through to orange and red, hypericum pops up all over my garden. I think this one is the medicinal St. John’s Wort.
At this time of year, it’s hard to imagine the borders without layers of tall green and beautiful flowers. I hope you enjoyed my midsummer blooms. And thanks to those leaving comments on the blog – sorry if I don’t always get back to you on time! The blog is going well, but it would be great if more folk on Mastodon, or other parts of the Fediverse got into tooting a Six! Go on, its a much kinder form of social media, not controlled by crazy billionaires. All you need to do is find 6 things in your garden to show us. Then post on social, or add a link at Jim’s blog below. For regulars, our organiser is Jim at https://gardenruminations.co.uk/. And I’m on mastodon @julie3dharris@mastodon.scot
Nice yellows! I especially liked the yellows with a pop of red! I could use some sunshine s well!
Lysimachia and hypericum flowers also here. A pretty touch of yellow in the garden. !
But the yellow of my tomato flowers has been replaced by the green colour and… also the red of the first tomatoes!…
I found a tiny tomato today. The variety usually gives tomatoes around 0.5 kg or larger, so it will be awhile yet before I am happily eating bacon lettuce and tomato sandwiches, preferably with avocado on good toasted sourdough. Mmmmmm!