My Top Ten June Blooms. Midsummer Magic.

Top of my June listing has to be roses of track but they deserve their own post and anyway there are so many other beauties vying for attention that I do n’t have a go at it where to start .

Perhaps we should begin with the most overdressed heyday of the June garden ; the paeony , they have such gloriously inflated tomentum styles that they can not hold the heads up so they loll about drunkenly . The big play fagot is appropriately enough ‘ Sarah Bernhardt ’

Paeonialactiflora‘Sarah Bernhardt ’

Paeonialactiflora‘Sarah Bernhardt’

But just as flamboyant is this one .

Paeonia‘Monsieur Jules Elie ’

At this time of the year I dead find all my ashen and and wan pinkish flower are unsightly with pollen mallet .

Paeonialactiflora‘Sarah Bernhardt’

Paeonia lactiflora‘Laura Dessert ’

‘ Karl Rosenfield ’ is fragrant as well as beautiful .

Paeonia lactoflora‘Karl Rosenfield ’

Paeonia‘Monsieur Jules Elie’

I love single blossom and Paeonia ‘ Krinkled White is fragrant too .

Paeonia lactifora‘Krinkled White ’

‘ Doreen ’ is a gorgeous deep pink .

Paeonia lactiflora‘Laura Dessert’

Paeonia lactiflora‘Doreen ’

Most of the bearded irises and the damp lovingIris sibiricaare over now but I have an unusual pinky lilac doubleIris sibiricacalled‘Pink Parfait ’ which blooms by and by than most .

Iris sibirica ‘ pinkish Parfait ’

Paeonia lactoflora‘Karl Rosenfield’

Iris chrysographes‘Black Knight ’ is looking sultry and gorgeous .

Iris chrysographes ‘ Black Knight ’

I do it orchids and the brave Lady ’s Slipper orchidaceous plant are wonderfully exotic look . I think myCypripedium‘Kentucky Pink ’ was n’t going to bloom this year but then I find it when I was pulling out the dead forgetmenots and I very nearly decollate it . These plants like a forest setting .

Paeonia lactifora‘Krinkled White’

Cypripedium‘Kentucky Pink ’

It is a good matter that I have the aroma of roses all round the garden because my next works is very smelly , it smells of rotting meat because it is fertilised by fly . But it search in darkness sinister and I love it . It is calledDracunculus vulgarisand it is very vulgar indeed .

Dracunculus vulgaris

Paeonia lactiflora‘Doreen’

Arisaema costatumis another arum and it looks very black indeed with a cobra - like cowl and an elongate spadix like a party whip .

Arisaema costatum

Carpentaria californicais a adorable bush with white heyday and lustrous leaves , it belong to to the hydrangea family , hydrangeaceaeIt needs a warm cheery spot . it is lightly fragrant .

Iris sibirica ‘Pink Parfait’

Carpentaria californica

Carpentariais sometimes called a bush anemone although it is not an sea anemone at all . But I do have a endearing anemone in bloom right now . It is a hybrid call in ‘ Wild Swan ’ . I love the white petal which are lilac on the back .

Anemone‘Wild Swan ’

Iris chrysographes ‘Black Knight’

For fragrance in the garden or in a vase you ca n’t beat the cottage garden favourites for June , Pinks . As I grow several rotten genus Arisaema this is important . It take place to me that I have never written about Pinks before or even taken many picture of them and I ca n’t recall why as I love them . They are members of theDianthusfamily but they look nothing like the gawky clustering of brassy carnations that you find on garage forecourt . They are easy from cuttings called spot . You just gently tug a non - flowering shoot , trim it just below a leaf joint and rend away the lower leave . They like adept drainage so I put them round the edges of a gage of compost mixed with grit . They can go in the propagator but a polythene udder will do just as well . If you tap press cutting from friends as I do then you cease up with quite a few that you do n’t know the name of .

Some of them are low grow and make pretty mats .

Dianthus‘Starry eye ’

Cypripedium‘Kentucky Pink’

The laced Pinks which were so darling by the Victorians are in particular appealing .

Dianthus‘Gran ’s Favourite ’

Dianthus‘Laced Prudence ’

Dracunculus vulgaris

I have a very marvelous maturation pink which I saw range through Tom Stuart- Smith ’s hayfield a few years ago . It isDianthus carthusianorum . I saw this growing wild in Translyvania where the wild flower robust meadows are a wonderful stack .

Dianthus carthusianum

older flowers are very fleeting and if you want to make sr. prime cordial you have to be quick about it . I sometimes make it with the pink floweredSambucus nigra‘Black Lace’because it makes pink affable . This was a talent from a friend and a very welcome one too . The name is very appropriate because it does look just like lace .

Arisaema costatum

Sambucus nigra‘Black Lace ’

campanula have been ringing their bells round off the garden for some time now and in July there will be more to fall . The mantrap - leaved bellflower , Campanula persicifoliaseeds around everywhere and is always welcome .

Campanula pericisifolia

Carpentaria californica

The white one expect lovely withCornus alternifolia .

Campanuula persicifolia

The nettle leavedCampanula tracheliumcan seed a minute too enthusiastically and it comes up everywhere .

Anemone‘Wild Swan’

Campanula trachelium

I do n’t remember constitute this double one . The doubleCampanula trachelium‘Bernice ’ is a delight .

Campanula trachelium‘Bernice ’

As I have never develop Canterbury Bells , Campanula mediumthis next one is a bit of a secret .

Campanula medium

I love the large Alexander Melville Bell ofCampanula punctata .

Campaunulcampanula punctata ‘ Sarastro ’

Campanula punctata ‘ Pink Chimes ’

The niggling alpine campanulas are quite resistless .

Dianthus‘Starry Eyes’

Campanula pulla

And how about the sky blue bells of the appropriately called ‘ Tubby ’ ?

Campanula cochlearifolia ‘ Tubby ’

Dianthus‘Gran’s Favourite’

Perhaps I will finish with some clematis . shortly the viticellas will be getting going and they are a joy of the July garden . But for June I have a unexampled one , well new to me , it was launch in 2013 . It is ‘ Samaritan Joe ’ and is such a gorgeous color .

Clematis‘Samaritan Joe ’

On the trellis in my secluded gardenClematis viticella‘Madame Julie Correvon ’ is romping away , she is always the first of my viticellas to bloom .

Dianthus‘Laced Prudence’

Clematis‘Madame ‘ Julie Correvon ’

Here are few more clematis which are looking well at the here and now .

It does seem a ignominy and ungrateful not to mention all the other June peak which are gracing the garden at the minute , I have not feaured any delphinium and I love the spectre of blue they make out in and what about lupins and geraniums ? Oh well , there is always another post . But now , the garden calls ; it is endearing and warm , friends are coming round and the Pianist has made some scone . So off I go to enjoy a summer ’s 24-hour interval in the means I like best . If you’re able to spare the time to post your favorite June blooms and link with mine , that would be endearing .

Dianthus carthusianum

45 Responses toMy Top Ten June Blooms. Midsummer Magic.

Wow , those are stunning Peonies and Irises – and everything else ! Mine are done and I am sad . The Peonies seemed especially fragrant this year , but maybe they always are and I just take them for award until the next class . Happy later June ! Happy summertime !

One lovely specimen after another but the ‘ Black Knight ’ Iris made me pant – it ’s spectacular . The rosiness on your Carpenteria californica are a good 2 month behind mine and yours is a more prolific flub but , as mine survives on my nasty , dry back slope , I wo n’t malign it . It goes without saying that I ’m in reverence of your peony collection but I ’m also envious of your Clematis and Campanulas . I ’m project to institute one of the large - bloom Clematis in my garden in the spill and then pray for rain akin to the storey we enjoyed this past wintertime .

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