Flower of the Day for a year - a Challenge!

[rary]

My flower today is an Oriental Lily

[roitelet]

A shrubby one today Abelia, as you can see this one has golden/variegated leaves and is almost evergreen until we get a really severe frost.

[veggiechicken]

My flower turns up on the Vine frequently to be identified.
Its Leycesteria formosa but has many common names - usually referring to the berries that follow the flowers and their appeal to birds and some humans. Not me!!

[farendwoman]

Gomphrena Strawberry Fields.
Growing LOADS of these next year.

[farendwoman]

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Gomphrena Strawberry Fields.
Growing LOADS of these next year.

Hope I’ve got all of you singing along now ......
“Let me take you down, coz I’m going to .......”

[cheops]

Pink flowers of a strawberry variety called ‘Just add cream’. September is here - oddly I am still picking peas and strawberries. This variety of strawberry has some very good points - it TRULY continuously produces strawberries ALL summer - it has a very attractive pink flower - and it produces very few runners but just enough should you want to increase your stock. The only criticism I have is - the small crown of leaves at the top of each strawberry can sometimes be reluctant to pull out, but this is a very small criticism. It’s the only strawberry I grow now - great taste and a crop from late spring till autumn guaranteed.

[cheops]

Strawberry fields is another which has caught my eye on this thread and have noted it as a possibility to grow next year. Looks lovely Farendwoman.

[farendwoman]

Strawberry fields is another which has caught my eye on this thread and have noted it as a possibility to grow next year. Looks lovely Farendwoman.

Thanks Cheops.
Would also recommend gomphrena Qis Purple.

[cheops]

I am proud of this hardy fuschia as it was a cutting I took sometime last year from my neighbour’s garden. I intend keeping it trimmed to about thigh high.

[farendwoman]

A sweet pea today “Singing the Blues”.
Getting fewer flowers produced now and stems getting shorter.
Mustn’t be greedy though, have had loads all summer.

[roitelet]

A rather damp Campanula muralis.

[veggiechicken]

My flower is....................do I need to tell you?

[Scarlet]

Another dahlia for me

[rary]

Sadly my OH beat me to the flowers today as she was cutting some for the church as it is harvest thanks giving on Sunday, but here's a photo of some of my flowers

[cheops]

This variety of Geum is çalled Mrs. Bradshaw. Past it’s best now but still flowering but with less gusto. Viewed at a distance it’s flowers are held high on wispy stems as if suspended in mid air. Constantly needing dead headed but at the height of summer the show is well worth it. As a contrast I like to grow amongst it shorter masses of flowers such as Feverfew.