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A winter/summer border comparison

Close up of purple allium

It’s interesting to see a garden laid bare in winter and then see it blossom in summer

Filed Under: Posts July Summer

Calamintha nepeta (Lesser calamint)

Close up of the pale blue trumpet flowers of Calamintha nepeta

Charming is the word to describe this little perennial, with its clouds of tiny, pale blue flowers in late summer on aromatic plants.

Filed Under: Plant of the month August Summer

Hemerocallis ‘Joan Senior’ (Day-Lily)

Overhead view of the broad creamy white petals of the Day Lily

As the name implies, the flowers of a Day-Lily may only last a day, but they do keep coming.

Filed Under: Plant of the month July Summer

Verbascum chaixii album (Mullein)

A bumblebee gathers pollen from a white verbascum flower.

This mullein gives an upright structure in the border without being too dominant. It’s also a plant that the bees love. 

Filed Under: Plant of the month June Summer

Lavatera maritima

Close up of a bee nestled among Lavatera maritima's large pink petals

Although included here in August, I could have added this one for June, July or September as that’s how long it’ll be flowering for.

Filed Under: Plant of the month August Summer

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Plant of the month

August
A bumble bee settles on a lilac blue Agastache

Agastache ‘Black Adder’

his giant hyssop has fluffy, lilac blue flower spikes on straight stems that grow to about 90cm high.

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