This Globe thistle (Echinops ritro) should be well and truly dormant during the winter months, not trying to flower! Maybe it will have second thoughts after today’s frost!
Tag: summer flowering
Shrubs and plants that flower during the summer – they flower during the months of June, July or August.
Rosa ‘High Hopes’
Rosa: High Hopes (Pink climbing rose)
Fuchsia, Hardy
Clematis tangutica
Both the yellow lantern-like flowers and the fluffy seed heads of this clematis make it well worth growing. It is very easy to grow and a vigorous climber – useful for climbing up trees and large shrubs. The seed heads will remain on the plant throughout the winter and I will cut the whole plant down to the ground in the spring.
Rudbeckia Goldsturm (Black-eyed Susan)
Oenothera lindheimeri (Gaura lindheimeri)
Geum ‘Mrs J Bradshaw’ (Avens)
This lovely little geum has been in flower since Spring (see here flowering in April) and is still going strong – even the seed heads are pretty. I was particularly pleased with the planting combo against the thalictrum.
Sedum
Sedum flowers are the bees must-have food at the moment! The flowers are not even fully out and the bees are crawling all over them. Sedums are a wonderful plant to have in the garden, as they have so much to offer for three quarters of the year. The young lush shoots in the spring, the beautiful flowers, followed by the seed heads which look superb covered in frost.