June in my garden

The malvas are short-lived perennials.  I allow them to self seed all around the garden.  This is a malva moschata, a cousin of hollyhocks.  Good in the cutting garde, butterflies and humming birds like them.  Can grow to 2 to 3 feet high.

 This Scabiosa, pin cushion flower, is in a pot.  These are very lovely plants and I need to get more of them in my garden.  Can grow 12 - 18 inches high.  Well liked by butterflies and bees.

 This Campanula Glomerata came from Sandy and Ralph's cottage at the lake.  It is a fine plant for my garden, now.  It can be invasive, but I need good strong plants to populate my garden that is becoming more and more low maintenance with pockets of special plants here and there.  It is a good cut flower, can grow to 28 inches with a 2 - 3 foot spread.  So, should be divided every 2 years or so.  I can see some of this plant growing with the Lychnis (magenta flowers) in the boulevard garden room. Hummingbirds, butterflies and bees like it.

 The Achillea, Moonshine Yarrow, grows in the strip in front of the peonies, on our driveway side of the boulevard garden, with verbenas (purple flowers) French lavender, lupines, decorative blue grass, and thyme as the carpet.  Needless to say the bees and butterflies love this garden room.  The yarrow is spreading around a bit.  There are other yarrows, some pink and others a buff color. 

 Lychnis chalcedonica, Maltese Cross, grows in the inner garden room at the front, with the above mentioned campanula.  It is an old garden favourite.  My mom grew it in her garden years ago.  It grows a 3 - 4 feet high and can be quite floppy, so usually needs support.  Tomatoe cages work well for this.  There is a silver/red sedeum as the carpet in this garden room, and the burgundy colored smoke bush, along with a few smaller blue perennials, a hebe, a Mrs. Bradshaw geum, some alliums. I have other Maltese Cross plants in the cutting garden and in the area around the fig tree at the back.

These are pine siskins relaxing on the deck railing, just above the bird bath.  They are nice to have around the garden.

I have found an excellent list of some of the more common garden plants here:  An excellent list of perennials with good descriptions