Six on Saturday. June Beauties.

I have rather lost the habit of blogging , especially as I have been too busybodied creating a garden the last few month to call back about much else . But now it is brilliant June and I detect that after all my endeavor ( and an enormous amount of money which I favor not to dwell on , ) I actually have a garden and there are exciting thing come into bloom . So here are the six stunner ready my nitty-gritty beat faster this hebdomad .

You have to have irises in June , so I ’ll set out by unveiling a new flag which is blooming for the first time . I grew it from the seed from one of my Cedric Morris irises so it is limited and quite topical as the Sarah Price garden at Chelsea which won everyone ’s hearts boast these peach . I impart mine behind when I moved but I have quite a few seedlings to look forward to ; all youngster of Cedric . Irises are easy from seed , I have raft of seedling ofIris sibericatoo ; each one is unique and it is so exciting waiting for them to bloom .

I bring my hardy orchids with me and they are none the worse for spending a year in pots . One of the Lady ’s Slipper orchids is already over but this one , Cypripedium ‘ Kentucky Pink ’ is looking fabulous . I hope it will like its young domicile .

Cedric Morris Iris seedling

Peonies are essential for the June garden and I have corrupt a duet . I am still mourn my brilliant Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree peonies which I exit behind . But never mind I brought these two lovelies with me and they are very happy to be in the ground after spend many months in gage . The first is my Itoh paeony ’ ‘ Julia Rose ’ which has semi - double satiny flowers which are an unusual shape and a lovely shade of pink . As they senesce they become apricot and cream . Itoh paeony are intersectional ; they are hybrids between tree peonies and herbaceous peonies . If I had room I would wish lots more of these sweetheart .

The second peony in bloom is ‘ Coral Sunset ’ , which is a glowing coral color and lights up this corner of the garden . It is more or less fragrant too . At the moment it has no near neighbours and I do n’t know what I can produce next to it as the luminous color is quite unmanageable to oppose . I think she needs to be surrounded by green so possibly I will use fern .

And of course of action , June is rose time and I have bought quite a few Modern ones . I have also brought some of my favourite which I grow from cutting . ‘ Drinkstone Apricot ’ started life history in a previous garden which had belonged to a nurseryman . I am so beaming that the prune a friend gave me a twain of years ago is doing so well . It is an former florescence rose which has apricot buds although the candid flowers are more yellow

Cedric Morris Iris seedling

I will end with a grass which is looking rather splendid . It is not really mine ; readers of my web log might remember my son’sjetty gardenwhich I wrote about several times on this blog . When he moved to France a couple of class ago he take most of his plants with him , but he left the ones he could n’t fit into the remotion van here . This fabulous grass , Hackonechloa macra ‘ Aureola ’ is one he left behind . This year I have hold it out of its charge plate bucket , put it into a squeamish pot and told it to make itself at abode . My son is most indignant as he seems to entertain fantasies of secreting it into his manus luggage on a budget flight which even begrudges you a tail to sit in . But I do n’t feel sorry for him as this was one of two and the other one sit around outside his business firm in France last summer where pass holidaymaker intercept to stroke it and have their photos contain in front of it . It is very tactile and I ’m grateful to my son for growing something so glorious .

I am glad that there were no plants here when we came as I have never had the probability to part a garden from scratch before and it is such play to do . I have enjoyed myself and spend a fortune but I had a year to take cuttings and produce plant from seed so I was able-bodied to lend plenty of plants with me too . In fact all my six today are plants I take with me . My only worry now is that as the garden is pocket-sized , I will soon have nothing to do . But then before long we are going to France and I will have a new garden to make , although I wo n’t be able to plant it in high summer which will be frustrating .

Anyway , it is nice to be back joining in with the popular Saturday meme , Six on Saturday which I gather is now hosted by Jim atGarden Ruminations . It is wonderful to have plants that I can portion out with you at last . before long I will show you what I have been doing here . It is a small garden but I am beginning to settle in erotic love with it now that I am wall by many of my old favorite .

Cypripedium‘Kentucky Pink’

49 Responses toSix on Saturday. June Beauties.

It ’s great to see a post from you . All the splendid “ baggage ” from your former garden is looking splendid in your new outer space . I am of course as covetous as ever over the peony . I adore Hakonechloa but it ’s druthers for moister grunge than I can provide has ruled it out for me .

Missed You . Glad you ’re back !

So pleased you are back blogging , and have some neat plants to show us each week . Thanks for the tip that Iris are easy to spring up from seed . I have some lovely nanus one too which suit my garden , and next yr will keep some source , and not dead head all of them .

Paeonia ‘Julia Rose’

adorable to see you back Chloris . beaming to read that you have been having fun start a garden from scratch . It ’s both surd study and expensive as you say but most rewarding . When we did it we were so much jr. . The house which was newfangled had to take priority so the garden had to be create on a shoestring budget 😢 Love the hackonechloa macra ‘ Aureola ’ – it expect like a radiate hedgehog . Enjoy your time in France .

Six on Saturday. June Beauties.