Six on Saturday. Lazy Summer Days.

It ’s been a sack sort of twenty-four hour period today , it was very spicy and the promised thunder storm never arrived . But I ’m not complain , the knoll is a wonderful live July solar day kickshaw . A pity the pool is too pocket-size for a quick plunge .

I will start my six this week with my favourite lily , Lilium regale . I grew this from germ and it is the easiest and spry lily to grow from ejaculate . The seed germinate like table mustard and cress and you may get peak in as small as two days ; I do n’t know any other lily which comes on so quickly . It has sumptuous white trumpets backed with pink and an intoxicating sweetness . In the wild this grows in an fabulously curb field in the mountains of Sichuan in China . It was gather by E.H .Wilson in 1903 and it has since become the most popular lily in the creation and with good reason ; it is divine . He first collected 18,2007 bulbs , most of which moulder because they were n’t packed right . He went back in 1910 and 6000 more bulbs were collected , which seems awful hooliganism . It was on this occasion that Wilson broke a pegleg in two place when a landslip fell down on his party on a narrow-minded path . He most had to have it amputate as it became infected and he walked with what he call his lily hobble constantly afterwards . Lilium regaleis the parent of many of the modern horn lilies .

I bonk bouquet and the sweet-smelling - smellingHeliotropum arborescens‘Cherry Pie ’ is tremendous in a pot . prissy gardeners were keen on it and used it for bedding or greenhouse civilisation . Sometimes they trained it as a touchstone and I think I might try that one year . It has clump of violet flowers and crinkly leaves . It is popular for the delicious sweetness which is supposed to be a cross between cherry Proto-Indo European and vanilla . I ca n’t quite notice cherry red pie but it does smell delicious which is a bit misleading , as it is toxic . So do n’t exhaust it . The flora will look good all summertime as long as you remember to deadhead and keep pinching it out to stop it get under one’s skin straggly . My grandmother used to grow this although she always claimed the innovative cultivars had lost much of the delicious fragrance . The olfactory property takes me straight back to my puerility and spending time with my grandmother who was a rabid nurseryman .

Lilium regale

Begonia‘Tiger Paws ’ seems to be enjoying its summer holiday in a shady part of the garden . This is a house plant really , it like tincture and high humidity . It would have got leave out in my one-time garden , but here I have time to cater for the needs of even the finical prima donna . I jazz the chocolate brown leaves with lime green spots and each one is edged with hairs . Now it is blossom with little pink heyday , but it is spring up for its fabulous foliation rather than the flowers ..

Nearby , is another spotty plant , Podophyllum versipelle ‘ Spotty Dotty ’ . It ’s one I eff and lost in my old garden . It demand plenty of wet and probably needs feeding too . This fourth dimension I desire to keep it felicitous . It has bombastic , crazy , spotty , parasol- like leaves . I love it . It has red flowers too but I do n’t care if it never flowers as long as it keep producing those howling leaves .

Habranthus robustusis in heyday now . It live in a pot in the greenhouse in the winter and I forget about it each twelvemonth until suddenly the pink buds appear . Actually , I call up this is another case of a name change and it is now calledZephyranthes robusta . The bulbs need to be keep wry and then the flowers egress in summer after a soak . Hence the name Pink Rain Lily I suppose . I think I might sample a few bulbs in the crushed rock garden to test their daring . They are member of theAmaryllisfamily and very beautiful . I would likely assess them more if they were n’t so easy .

Lilium regale

I have hadCalceolaria integrifolia ‘ Kentish Hero ’ in a can for twelvemonth . It is very easy from cuttings if you need a new one . I love its red pouches which become more orangish as they go on . They seem like smiley mouths and chin to me , you’re able to even see the tonsils . It blooms all summer long if you deadhead it and I call back it look dramatic in a pot .

So there we have it , a speedy six today because I need to get back to the hammock . It ’s evening now but still very raging . Do visit Jim atGarden Ruminationsto have a look at other gardeners ’ July dainty .

45 Responses toSix on Saturday. Lazy Summer Days.

I think that we may have stolen your thunderstorms with three here since 4.00pm today accompanied by much in the way of intemperate rainwater ! We see some heliotrope ‘ Cherry Pie ’ in the scented garden at Arley Hall in the first place on in the week but unhappily they were still to flower . I ’ve know and lose ‘ spotted Dotty ’ too Chloris . I ’m rather fond to the flower but as you suggest the foliage wins hands down .

An eclectic mixing this workweek but every one of them is a winner . I ’ll have to try on growing the Lilium regale from source one daytime . I ’ve been proud of to see more lilies in my garden this year but perhaps that ’s yet another byproduct of the overweight - than - common rainwater we had this twelvemonth .

A lily grown from seed ! Wow , I ’ve never try out that and I ’m impressed with your succeeder ! All your other works and salad days are beautiful , too . I was n’t familiar with that special Calceolaria . I ’ve seen others as potted works , but that one is very vivacious and luscious !

Lilium regale

Six on Saturday. Lazy Summer Days.