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Pictures - Summer
I change the pictures and caption at the top
of the home page every month - they're mostly taken in my garden or near where
I live. Here's an archive of those pictures. They're all taken by myself with
digital cameras - various types.
Plants
pictures to buy

Summer -
White
Lilies
- An absolute summer favourite and must-have. What's the point of having
a garden, or even just a window box, if you don't take the opportunity
to grow pure white wonderfully scented blooms that are often up to 6
inches or more across? What's that? Lily beetle? yes I know, but I'd
rather struggle with them and risk it than not bother at all. Plant them
somewhere near the house so you can easily see and smell them whenever
you walk past. |

Summer -
Fan palm
- OK, maybe a bit of a cheat this one. I was laying on a sunbed (in the
shade of course, I am English) on holiday in Egypt when taking a break from
my book, I looked around and saw this helping to shade me from the sun.
I love the nature-meets-abstract feeling of it. While I'd like to be able
to grow these in my garden in Cambridgeshire, I'm not even going to bother
trying as they wouldn't be half as good as they are here - far better to
use the space for one of the hundred plants that will grow well here and
I haven't got yet. |

Summer -
Morning Glory -
Heavenly Blue. One of my favourite flowers and a must-have
annual every year. Sow the seed in March and by late May to June,
they're ready to go outside. They do great in large containers, make
sure you give them plenty of space and you'll have a endless succession
of perfect flowers every day as long as you dead-head them in the
evening. |

Summer -
Rosa felipes
Kiftsgate - the rose that wants to be a tree. This bunch of flowers
is about a foot across and is part of a display some 12 feet wide and 10
feet high, and this is just a teenager! A very vigorous rambling rose, only
flowers the once in a year - but it does so magnificently, filling the garden
with perfume in the process. |

Summer -
Variegated plant
reverting to plain green.
Many plants with
variegated leaves, especially shrubs and trees will produce all
green leaves in the spring and summer, if left, these plain shoots will
overtake the plant entirely. Cut them back as far as possible to the
trunk, main stem or roots leaving only the variegated parts. |

Summer -
Wisteria sinensis
at Hinchingbrooke House, Huntingdon. This is one of my favourite plants
and settings, growing up a spectacular old manor house, this plant goes
almost un-noticed as it's off the beaten track. This small open courtyard
garden is paved with millstones and the scent on a warm spring day from
the Wisteria is amazing. Something to aspire to for gardener and homeowner
alike! |

Summer -
Nigella,
Love-in-a-mist or Devil-in-a-bush.
Delicate flowers in shades
of blue, the flower is surrounded by a "ruff" of finely divided
foliage which when there are many flowers together give the
impression of them all being in the "mist". After flowering
a large (similar diameter to the petals) seed pod forms which
is decorative in its own right. The best thing though is that
you can let them self-seed and you have them every year for
no effort. |

Summer -
Foxglove - Digitalis
I love foxgloves, they are one of my favourite flowers. They are
woodland edge plants and so are good for the right "difficult" position,
though can seem difficult themselves as they do need the woodland edge
position. Life is not complete unless you have spent some time time
watching bees visit foxgloves and have taken 5 flowers off to place on
each finger. |
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