Our garden is still a little bit sparse on the ‘pretties’, but I’m slowly getting more in. Here’s a colourful splash of some of our summer flowers.
Sweet alyssum (Lobularia maritima) is a Vege Garden flower staple.
The pansies (violas) in The Little Fulla’s vege garden are throwing up all sorts of colours. Here’s a sweet little white one.
Heuchera ‘Amethyst Myst’ has pretty, airy flower spikes of delicate white and pink shades, contrasting with the burgundy stems.
The yellow flowers in my garden are either in the Vege Garden or they’re weeds. This is a gherkin cucumber flower.
A calendula (Calendula officinalis) in the Vege Garden.
A butternut squash flower, which, incidentally, does look a bit squashed. There’s something delightful about it though.
Bee balm (Monarda ‘Prairie Fire’) always draws attention.
This red asiatic lily (Lilium ‘Detroit’) is always around at Christmas time.
Bee balm again.
Lavandula pedunculata ‘The Princess Lavender’. A gift from my grandparents.
Common chives may be a common herb but the flowers are pretty against a backdrop of Carex albula.
Calla lillies again. They get extra attention.
One of the hyrdrangeas out the front produces rich purple blooms.
Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia, unknown cultivar) in the Herb Garden.
The Summer Delight potatoes do not want to be overlooked with their purple flowers.
A purple and black pansy in The Little Fulla’s vege garden.
Salvia ‘Black and Blue’ is a pleasant sort of blue.
The huge blue hydrangeas are a force to be reckoned with. I’m not a big fan of the blue ones. They’re just keeping things interesting until I get around to changing the front garden.
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I’ve toyed with the idea of almost-red ones, but I don’t know how stable the colour would be in our acidic soil. I am, however, very keen to get some oakleaf hydrangeas with white flowers, as the autumn leaf colour is quite something.
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Hydrangeas are such a trip. It seems like only a few years ago, they were pink, blue or white. The white ones were always white. The pink or blue ones were pink or blue depending on the pH of the soil. They are so much more reliable as one color or the other, with purple and almost red in the mix.
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Isn’t the colour of the hydrangea determined by the acidity of your soil, lovely pics. It was sleet here in York last night so nice to see some summer colour!
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Acidity makes them blue. Alkalinity makes them pink. However, most of the modern cultivars are more stable than older cultivars. Those that should be blue might be more purplish in alkaline soil, but will still maintain some of the their blueness. Those that should be pink should likewise be somewhat pink, even if acidity makes them more purplish than they should be. White is always white.
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That’s interesting!
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Yes, Tony’s right. I could make mine turn more purpley by adding lime or something to the soil, but I haven’t bothered since I’m planning to remove most of them anyway. Also, I don’t like the idea of having to keep putting stuff in the soil to increase the alkalinity. The acidity is good for most edible crops and other things I’m growing.
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