Plot report - flowers

Yesterday I showed you how the vegetables were getting on. Today it’s the turn of the flowers.

This is the first bloom on my white Rose bush:

 This is the Libertia, which has lots of  flower-spikes again this year. The first few years I had this plant it produced only one or two flowers, but then I started pulling out the old leaves when they went brown, and this seems to have stimulated it enormously. The leaves come out cleanly with a sharp tug. Last year the plant had over 25 flower-spikes.

This in my very favourite colour combination  – the dark purple of a Cotinus “Royal Purple” against the greeny-yellow of a Dogwood (Cornus Alba “Aureum”).

I have not seen one like this in my garden before. I think it is a hybrid of the type pictured below, of which there are several.

Some of the Sweet Peas that I planted amongst the Raspberry canes are managing to hold their own. I think they might actually do OK.

These are the last few Lavender cuttings from last Autumn. I have planted out several already. I don’t think these ones are big enough to flower this year, but let’s hope they manage to establish a decent root system and build up some strength for next year.