June 2015 in the Northern Hemisphere

[Philip Walker]

Linum suffruticosum salsoides-1st flowering

[David Nicholson]

Pretty little plant Philip

[johngennard]

A few shots from around the garden

[johngennard]

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[Maggi Young]

John, your perfect patch of Leicestershire looks glorious- so full of form and colour.  A pleasure to see it - thank you so much for sharing it with us.
The weather is ghastly here in Aberdeen and in many other parts of the country as far as I can tell  - I can only hope that your fabulous display does not find itself blown to smithereens tomorrow morning.

[johngennard]

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[johngennard]

Thanks Maggie.I have to admit that the photos were taken last week but the weather here has not been that bad. Today has been dull and cool but dry apart from a few spots and quite pleasant for working.The forecast isn't great but they have been wrong before.Fingers crossed.

[Maggi Young]

Fingers crossed indeed.

 How  do you keep the slugs and snails off your Hostas, John?

[johngennard]

The most asked question Maggie.I don't really have much of a problem until the end of Summer but I do resort to pellets if and when any damage occurs.

[Maggi Young]

I'm astounded - not that the question is that most often asked, it is something which anyone would marvel at, for sure - but at the thought that you would only have problems much later in the year. Quite extraordinary!

[Luc Gilgemyn]

A few shots from around the garden

Breathtaking perfection John ! 
Great to see some pictures of your piece of heaven in this season.  I'd only seen pix of early spring so far.

And now I'll go on enjoying the pictures !

[Ian Y]

Paris japonica, photographed before the storm battered them, grows in full sun in our garden.
However I will qualify that I always describe  'Scotland is in shade' meaning we do not get intense heat even in full summer sunshine and certainly not when these beauties are in growth. The soil is free draining sandy loam heavily enriched with humus by topdressing every year. The clump is slowly increasing. It is also surrounded to the point of being overgrown by other plants such as Corydalis capitatawhich form a mutually beneficial protective community.

[Tim Ingram]

Exquisite thing Ian. It has that same symmetry as Trientalis that Trond and Robert have shown. To have such plants in the garden is something special.

[François Lambert]

I'm astounded - not that the question is that most often asked, it is something which anyone would marvel at, for sure - but at the thought that you would only have problems much later in the year. Quite extraordinary!

In different places I have different levels of snail damage.  On the courtyard, which is the 'cat'-highway to and from the house there are lots of snails because birds don't land there very often to feed on the snails.  In the garden however birds & hedgehogs keep the snail population pretty well under control so that without any intervention of me there is only very limited damage to the plants.  Or from observations ... Crinums are grazed leafless by the end of summer on the courtyard but show almost no damage at all in the garden.

[Steve Garvie]

Paris japonica, photographed before the storm battered them, grows in full sun in our garden.
However I will qualify that I always describe  'Scotland is in shade' meaning we do not get intense heat even in full summer sunshine and certainly not when these beauties are in growth. The soil is free draining sandy loam heavily enriched with humus by topdressing every year. The clump is slowly increasing. It is also surrounded to the point of being overgrown by other plants such as Corydalis capitata which form a mutluly beneficial protective community.

Nice images of this superb plant Ian!
Mine is just a small leaf rosette having sulked for two years underground before showing face.

Continuing the Paris theme (the first species is in the ground, the other two are pot-grown):

Paris polyphylla yunnanensis alba



Paris marmorata




Paris luquanensis