Six on Saturday. Rainy June Days.
Of naturally we were desperate for rainwater , as gardeners we know that the dateless teetotal spring twenty-four hour period spelt catastrophe for the garden . But … it ’s June and we need to be out there enjoying every effervescent second of the garden whilst it is decked in all its deluxe velvets and satins . If only it could rain at night and if only the rain could be be a bit more gentle . These downpours just do n’t accommodate the roses . The abundant sick pink flowers of my namesake rear ‘ Chloris ’ have turned a rather unappealing brown . If that is what she is go to do when it rain down she has to go . And l cognize the peonies should have been properly staked and it is entirely my fault if a bit of Sarah Bernhardt is lying with her beautiful face in the clay . But I ca n’t help being a bit aggrieved .
Anyway , enough of the moaning and on with the six . Of course in June we have to start with blush wine . Having killed an apple Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree in a previous garden by let it get strangled by an over - enthusiastic ‘ Paul ’s Himalayan Musk ’ I have in all likelihood given the buss of expiry to the old tree in this garden . After just 2 years the rose clearly has ambitions for human beings mastery but it is so pretty .
The obscure pink rose in the foreground isRosamacrantha‘Raubritter ’ . It is a procumbent , low growing arise with lovely cup - shaped , almost globular double flowers . I have it near the smaller pool which is little enceinte than a puddle but gives me prospect to mature some lovely pond industrial plant . At the moment I am enjoying cotton plant grass and miniature reedmace , Typha minimum .
Rosa ‘Paul’s Himalayan Musk’
The roses over my wrought branding iron arches are in bloom now . My favourite is ‘ Bleu Magenta ’ which is the dark of the purple ones .
Just one more rise before you get rose indigestion . It is a newspaper clipping from one I had in my previous garden . The original rose never did very well because it was growing in the nicety . This climb is doing so much unspoiled than its parent ever did and I am so glad I managed to propagate it . I always love the coloring material and shape of its flower . I discover out its name from somebody commenting on my blog years ago . I have never heard from him before or since but I am very grateful that I now have a name for this adorable rosiness , it is ‘ James Galway ’ . It is a David Austin rose cite after the famous flautist .
grow up the same pear tree tree pulpit I have a couple of clematis . Looking skillful right now is the matchless ‘ Madame Julia Correvon ’ .
Rosa macrantha ‘Raubritter’
I have one iris in theIrissibirica‘Peacock Butterfly ’ series developed in Massachusetts , America , by Marty Schafer and Jan Sacks . They come in such an astonishing range of colours . I have a affection for brown flush andIrissibirica‘Peacock Butterfly Jerry Murphy ’ is a delicious colouration . I intend to gather up more in the series even if they do have goofy names like ‘ Unbuttoned zipper ’ . I suppose some people will incur them a moment tacky , they are suppose to be reminiscent of a Inachis io butterfly ’s wing . Anyway , I like garish irises .
I demonstrate myKalmialatifolia‘Kaleidoscope ’ on this blog last year and believably the year before . I am still amazed that I can grow this beauty even if it has to detain in a pot because I ca n’t give it the blistering soil it likes . I love the efflorescence but the conical buds are sorcerous like piffling nance castle gun enclosure .
I like it acquire with the gorgeous affection shaped moody leaves of Forest Pansy , Cerciscanadensis .. At only two class old this small tree is looking wonderful .
Rosa ‘Bleu Magenta’
The white snapdragon you’re able to see by the pool was a seedling of the perennialAntirrhinum‘Tickled Pink ’ . I lost the pinkish parent but this white offspring let bigger and bushier every year . Like many self - seed plants it put itself in just the right spot .
Oh near , I seem to have make the limit and I want to speak about geraniums . A straightaway interrogative , how do you keepGeranium‘Rozanne ’ from sprawl all over everyone else ? I have read she muffle Mary Jane but she put out everything . She is like the grossly fleshy mortal you do n’t need to observe yourself sitting next to on a recollective haulage flight , however charming they are . Shall I evict her or is there a way of control her ?
So that is my six , ( I count the rose wine as one ) and I ’m not counting the geranium at all . She is far too esurient for attention , I do n’t want to encourage her .
Rose‘James ‘Galway’
As common Six on Saturday is host by Jim atGarden Ruminations . He always has really interesting plants to share with us as do all the participants . And everyone else is far more disciplined about following the convention . I seem to be the only one with an iodiosyncratic mode of counting .
Clematis‘Madame Julia Correvon
Iris sibirica‘Peacock ‘Butterfly Jerry Murphy’.
Cercis danadensis
Geranium‘Rozanne’
