Covent Garden (Gypsophila elegans ‘Covent Garden’) bloomed well this year. Dry weather suits it fine and there were no rain to ruin the blooms.
The only challenge with Covent Garden is that the blooming season is quite short.
The flower is popular with the florists and is used in the bouquets. Gypsophila has been cultivated for hundreds of years and is a very old garden flower.
Velouette (Cosmos bipinnatus ‘Velouette’) is a very beautiful cosmos variety.
The warm summer has suited it well and it has started to bloom earlier than usually.
For our short summers the variety is a bit problematic. If we get a cool summer, which we many times do, it has challenges to bloom early enough.
This year I planted my Red Flaxes (Linum grandiflorum) to a too dry place and it caused the flowers to grow unevenly.
Well, I still love the color of Red Flax. The stark contrast between the red blooms and green foliage somehow lures me.
Need to try to find a better spot for them next year or make a mixed flowerbed.
Corn Marigold (Glepionis segetum) is strongly self seeding. I have not planted any for two years.
Still there are some blooming after all this time.
Because it is doing so well I might buy more seeds and start mixing it in the flowerbeds with other bloomers. I can always use some reliable plants in the garden.
It has not been that good year for the Danish Flags (Papaver somniferum ‘Danish Flag’). Because of the long warm period we are having many of the plants remain small.
Last year one of the flowers had a different color scheme. The white in the flower was replaced with purple.
I liked the color combination and collected the seeds. Now half of my Danish Flag flowers are waving red purple flags.
Erfurter Orangefarbige (Calendula officinalis ‘Erfurter Orangefarbige’) is a variety of calendula bred specifically for its medicinal virtues – astringent, vulnerary and anti-inflammatory. An ancient remedy for dermal wounds and irritation.
This variety of Pot Marigold is easy to grow and blooms early. I have other varieties planted as well but those are not even close to blooming.
My plan is to use the flower pedals for meals, just to bring some color.
If I had known that petunias (Petunia) will do this well this summer, I would have bought more of them.
It seems that this hot weather suits them and leads to constant blooming.
Maybe next year I will have more but that depends on the colors that will be available. This spring the offering was quite modest.
The California Poppies (Eschscholzia californica ‘Aurantiaca Orange’) are enjoying their spot in the full sun. Their roots grow deep and in this spot reach an endless supply of water.
They started to bloom few days ago and with good luck continue to do so for the next month. The flowers are in various shades of gold.
We have been promised dry weather which suits them well.
I still have few pictures left on my phone from the summer. It was actually not that good year for the sunflowers but Sunspots (Helianthus annuus ‘Sunspot’) made it.
For a sunflower Sunspot is a short one but the blooms are big, nearly the size of a tall ones.
It is a bit shame that they bloomed late and there is no hope for harvesting any seeds for the next year.
Gardening in the North 