We do not have a much of a garden but for once the midsummer roses are in flower on the right time.
The first of the dahlias has flowered in my backyard. This is โVerroneโs Obsidianโ which overwintered outside in the pot without any problems at all.
My David Austin The Pilgrim climbing rose doing well this year after a heavy prune. All the roses are good this year.
Phil
How do you get them to change colour like that?
Spin it around. Itโs double sided.
Clever.
Heโs quite a well know artist and his stuff sells for 10s of thousands these days. Saw some of his work in San Fransisco a few years ago the large work was on sale for over $100ks. We paid around โฌ1,500.
Rosa โFreddie Mercuryโ - standing out brightly on this cloudy and dark โsummerโ evening.
Goes through a range of colours and is, unsurprisingly, tempermental.
Really doesnโt like shade - just like Freddie!
Is this St. Johnโs wort? Iโve just found it growing in my garden. I have a tendency to treat plants Iโve not planted myself as weeds.
Should I do so in this case?
My immediate reaction was hypericum family, but which of 490 varieties?
A quick look rejects Hidcote - petals the wrong shape or perforatum - the leaves donโt have characteristic dots.
As a weed is a plant in the wrong place, do you like it? Are you happy to have that colour and shape in that place?
The wikipedia page is quite comprehensive Hypericum - Wikipedia.
It looks very pollinator friendly and rather pretty .
I actually do like it but I understand itโs invasive, also noxious. Noxious in what way though?
A few weeks ago, I took out some creeping buttercups because I read that was invasive. Online though you can find them being sold as plugs for gardens.
St Johnโs Wort is used to extract a herbal medicine which is known to be dangerous in some situations, but obviously not all. I wouldnโt grow it if there was a chance of grazing animals eating it, for example. Other than that I would be tempted to keep it. While it can be invasive I havenโt ever seen it get out of control in a garden in the UK.