The Cutting Garden Flower Challenge 2014

[WPG]

Well, I had high hopes for my sweet peas this year, but lost virtually all of them to the slugs. Here's a few surviving sweet pea matucana, with an allium - a rather deceptive photo because the flowers are actually very small.

[Ja9]

June flowers

Not been able to pick any flowers for a bit as my daughter had awful hay fever ..she's away for the weekend so I picked these before tomorrow's thunderstorms :alstroemerias in the tall vase and sweet peas and roses in the smaller ones

[Two_Sheds]

end of June



and a sweet william on the left

[Jeanied]

Ah but you snuck a phlox in there too, TS Or a very well opened sweet william

[veggiechicken]

Sweet peas - even though I know picking is good for them, I still find it difficult to do.

[robmarston]

And here we have two roses; mme Alfred carriere and ena harkness, dahlia shadow play, purple scabious, lychnis Jerusalem cross, carnations and some sweet peas.




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[Green Gerkin]

Not sure what they are!
I must have planted them last year as popping up everywhere in the garden and they look lovely



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[veggiechicken]

A vase of summer sunshine - Yellow Loosestrife and Calendula



And some more Sweet peas - the flower that keeps on coming

[WPG]

Sweet pea, ox-eye daisy and a purple flower which I think is probably knapweed

[shushkin!]

I love the colour scheme. The clematis are a master stroke. Very pretty.

[shushkin!]

Love the vibrant colours. The lychnis chalcedonica are so wonderfully fire engine red. I even managed to find the double form of it after some serious searching. Red flowers really do liven up a herbaceous border.

And here we have two roses; mme Alfred carriere and ena harkness, dahlia shadow play, purple scabious, lychnis Jerusalem cross, carnations and some sweet peas.

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[Ja9]

A vase of summer sunshine -

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Very van gough ..know they are not sunflowers, but very cheery!

[WPG]

A pick 'n mix of sweet peas, ox-eye daisy, calendula, scabious, salvia viridis, phacelia, knapweed and cerinthe.

[robmarston]

Love that. Very real.


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[WPG]

More sweet peas, this time with a few nasturtiums. I lost a lot of sweet peas to slugs this year, and am now losing more to mildew. Have tried spraying with diluted milk, so hopefully they'll come round.