Oh, the Summer's Gone!

...and so are my very short holidays, so I am back at the computer and trying to catch up a bit, by posting a few pictures as well as a few words about July. To start with, it has been a month of events. During its second week, we had our daughter's christening and on its last week-end, our son's birthday. Just like for my son, I made the candle decoration myself, alas not with flowers from my own garden. I chose a very simple approach - I selected the flowers in pink and white the day before and on the morning of the christening I simply put them together in a bouquet around the candle by using raffia string and double adhesive tape. This is the resut:

I was really happy with the result and I felt so sorry that I had not taken proper pictures of the candle ornament I made for my son. Although I didn't write anything, I did take some pictures in my garden. This is Gentle Hermione by David Austin. A very pretty delicate pink rose, fairly productive with a descreet singular fragrance.

I bought this white hydrangea in late June for a shady corner of my garden and it has worked really well and it is kept its blooms which, in the meanwhile, have turned to light lime-green. I took this not so great picture of it and the catnip on its side:

This is some sort of antirrhinum that keeps reblooming and getting bigger and bigger:

Leonardo da Vinci rose did really well. Besides Lady Emma Hamilton, it had the most blooms among the new roses. An almost permanent color splash in my little garden with its intense pink. I still haven't come to terms with the fact it has no fragrance.

This is a slightly different echinaceea purpurea which I love for its delicate flower. So far, it hasn't shown me a great production of blooms, but I have high hopes for next year, as it is a young plant.

This is .... The Fluffiness! No, it's not its real name, but I seem to have lost its label, so I cannot remember what its name is. It is a pretty flower, suitable for bouquets, but which only blooms once - a luxury for my little garden that needs rebloomers.

Geranium Rozanne has been a favourite of mine for a white now. I love its delicate flowers, its color, the fact that is keeps on blooming until the first frosts and I only have to be more careful with this plant so I can actually have it as a perenial, as I have been known to kill some others over the winter in the past :DD

And although this selection of pictures only shows part of my plants, I am gonna finish this entry here with a couple of sage plants that I bought in June - a purple one and a purple&silver one. Very good plants for a small garden or for any garden, considering that it keeps on blooming continuously and it is turning into a small bush. You can see a good lavender plant behind it, and I say good, as it is a rebloomer as well, which is quite rare among lavender.