Plants for all
your seasons:
Plants for
August
Plants for June
Plants for May
Plants for April
Plants
for March
Plants for Winter color
All about ponds
A wild garden
Tropical
Plants
A Garden
through the seasons:
Garden
in August
Garden in June
Garden in May
Garden in
March
Wild garden
Wildlife
All about Ponds
Jobs for July
Dead-head roses, give light pruning and another feed with fertilizer for another show.
Divide bearded Irises
After your bearded Irises have
finished flowering, dig them up, divide them and replant them again. Use a
sharp knife and cut up the roots into 3-5 in pieces with leaves,
which have been cut to half size at one end. Plant into compost
enriched soil.
Plants: Shrubs and Flowers for July
Loosestrife
( Lysimachia
punctata
)
Perennial
Easy to grow plant, suitable for marshy and waterside conditions, in
sun or shade
Height 3 ft ( 100 cm ).
Bear's Breaches (Acanthus
spinosus )
Perennial
Mauve and white hooded flowers. A very beautiful tall growing plant. It
needs lots of space and will grow up to 7 feet ( 200 cm) high. Grows best in rich
well drained soil in full sun.
Hydrangea (macrophylla)
Shrub
Easy to grow shrub, color depends on the soil. Blue for acid soil and pink
for alkaline.
If one feeds the alkaline soil with a special feed the Hydrangea will turn
blue.
Height 5 ft. (150cm )
Plant in sun or shade.
Hebe
(Scropbulariaceae)
Evergreen flowering shrubs. Best grown in frost free areas.
There are over 100 varieties, and come in different heights.
Plant in sun or semi-shade.
Plants: Shrubs and Flowers for July
Monkshood
(Aconitum
napellus )
Perennial
monkshood resemble Delphiniums with their dark violet-blue flowers.
The tuberous roots are very poisonous and used to make ointment.
Height 5 ft ( 150 cm ).
Plant in moist soil in light shade
Astilbe
(arendsii )
Perennial
Astilbe grow best in
light shade in fertile moist soil.
Look very good around pools and streams.
Divide and replant every 3 years. Keep well watered in hot weather.
Height 2-3 ft (80- 100 cm ).
Plant in light shade.
Cistus,
Rock rose, Sun rose
(Cistaceae)
Evergreen Shrub.
Flowers are single rose-like.
Some varieties start flowering in April-May.
Will bloom for 2-3 month.
Shrubs vary in height from
12 in - 8 feet (40 cm- 200 cm)
Plant in full sun.
Lavatera
Mallow
(Malvaceae)
25 different species
Some are annual, biennial, perennial or shrubs of bushy habit.
The 2 in (5 cm) flowers are hibiscus-like.
Plant in full sun.