Blooms of mid-July

Ok, this is very strange indeed.

I do remember having posted this pretty much about the time when I took the photos (that is mid-July) but I found it in my drafts section and nowhere on my blog.

 

Therefore, in the middle of winter (ha!), I give you some colourful summer blooms.

Enjoy!

 

Some pretty bloom grown from seed

 

David Austin's Pilgrim - a relentless bloomer

 

Pretty Lady Emma Hamilton

 

Tea Clipper, an older rose by David Austin

 

Rosa Pierre de Ronsard (or Eden Rose) with fully opened blooms.

I must confess I much prefer them not quite so open :)

A double poppy.

I let the seeds fall on the ground, so let's see what next summer brings

 

Prettiest soft pink poppy, a perenial this time

These are 2 plants I removed from my garden at the end of the season.

The monarda, in the foreground, was too gaudy a pink to mix well with the rest of the coulour and the echinacea had grown too big for my linking, so it's in a friend's garden now.

 

 

Astrantia ruby ...something. A fuss-free perenial that goes so well in bouquets

 

Alium

And a pink pelargonium on my balcony