Bits of June

These days I had no time to go around the garden with my camera, so what I did was to take some photos with my phone.

I do have a lot of them, but I decided on a small selection.

 

Graham Thomas is giving me its best summer so far. Bunches of blooms and buds that open up successively.

 

I am trying to peg it a bit to the fence and I am doing it gradually. So far, so good, although the branch I had pegged last spring is now dead and into the compost bin.

Below, you can see it with some allium, seed heads of Black Barlow and a bit of Lady Emma Hamilton who looks not exactly her best self this year. I believe I need to prune it more severely ... or maybe I put too much rose food...

 

Here's a close-up of Artemis, by Tantau. It has really pretty blooms and glossy foliage and it has already grown into a big round bush in only its second summer, but it started sending there long shoots and the bush is not so balanced now, which I don't like much.

I am not a big fan of fragrance free roses and I had bought this one thinking it would have at least some fragrance. Alas it has none!

 

 

This is not the case of beautiful Pierre de Ronsard.

Before buying it, I had read complaints that it had no fragrance. Well, this proved to be not true - it has a very mild fresh fragrance, just enough so I don't feel disappointed when I dig my nose into its blooms.

I love this rose!

It blooms a lot, repeats well, has beautiful foliage, does well in partial shade and those blooms last for a very long time both on the bush and in the vase.

 

And I'm going to end my post today with a surprise - a Heleborus that started to rebloom!

Is this normal?!?

I am enjoying it none the less :)