Pictures of the garden in June

The kolkwitzia amabilis 'Pink Cloud', the ideal shrub : graceful port without spreading too much out, plentiful bloom faithful to the meeting every year, no cutting, no fertilizer. It name suits it.

This rosebush of Damascus 'Rose de Rescht' has a history. It arises from a rosebush planted by my great-grandmother, 80 years ago.
We make with its extremely perfumed flowers a delicious jam.

Rosebush Portland 'Yolande d'Aragon'. It too very fragrant and reflowering. One can blame him for a very steep port.

The rosebush 'Manou Meilland' is very reflowering and very sturdy. I had read that it liked a heavy ground, but here it soaks downright in the water during all winter and it blossoms again every summer for ten years.

This year, I did not cut back the spiraea ' Goldflame '. She took a lot of presence with her orange-coloured young foliage. From now on, I shall cut back her in spring only every other year.

Sisyrinchium striatum on background of purple cotinus. This hardy plant which does not like the wet grounds in winter resow it-self abundantly.

This hybrid lupin of Russel seems to appreciate a clay soil. Came from an only small foot two years ago, it produced 32 floral heads this year.

This Russel's lupin 'The Gentleman' has not his well fixed characteristics : the same clump produced flowers blue and white and others all white.

Lupin 'The Chatelaine'

The geranium oxonianum likes the sun. It offers disputes complexion of pink according to the maturity of flowers.

I do not know the cultivar of this rhododendron. Rather late, his flowers reach their full blooming at the beginning of June.

This clematis 'Nelly Moser' which was pink before, takes a more and more bluish colour in the course of the years.

The clematis 'Syrena' is one of the most red. It climbs here a laurel-tin.

Inevitable 'Jackmanii'. But a sure value.

Paeonia officinalis 'Rosa Plena'. This peony which one was already able to admire in the gardens of our grandmothers is very fragrant and remains a sure value.

During the division of a clump in August, a small fragment fell on the ground in cement of the descent of garage. There was stay here during all winter, untill a day o March when I discovered it. Recognizing a root of peony, I decided to plant it just in case. Two months later a small leafy stalk went out of ground. The next year, several stalks went out carrying each a flower which you see on the photo.

The bloom of the peony 'Gay Paree' lasts about three weeks because two series of buttons succeed one another.

The hardy geranium 'Johnson's Blue' is one of more flower-bearing.

Grasses give a lot of nature to the garden. This hanging sedge develops very quickly and keeps its foliage in winter.

English rosebush 'Graham Thomas'. This rosebush which all the catalogs and the reviews give to be very fragrant smells absolutely nothing in my place. It gets involved here in lysimachia punctata.

Rosebush 'Westerland'. It's the ideal rosebush : very fragrant plentiful and very fortifying bloom, insensible foliage in the diseases and fast shoot.

The English rosebush 'Heritage' is charmingly perfumed.

The climbing rosebush 'Ghislaine de Féligonde' embalms the descent of the garage.

Yellow chamoised in buttons, the flowers become white ivory by blooming.

The short-lived of Virginia 'Osprey' is very charming with its blue hairy stamens on white background.

The sort-lived of Virginia blooms well at the middle-shadow and forms rather quickly beautiful clumps.

Another cultivar of short-lived of Virginia, mauve.

The port structured well of the phlomis russeliana confers him a strong presence. He needs a ground really drained well to spend the winter without damage.

A new purchase, a lychnis x arkwrightii 'Vesuvius'.

This delphinium ' Blue Jays ' has a great presence.

Springing from the shadow, the variegated dogwood 'Elegantissima' deserves well its name.

The pink colour of eyelets is deepened by the leaves of crocosmias enlightened by the sun.

The goatee beards illuminate a garden by their strong presence. Always faithfull to the post, they demand no particular care.

The saxifraga stolonifera, here at foot of a hosta, as its name indicates it propagate by stolon, but it is far from being intrusive. The flowers are charming; to admire closely.

The gunnera took advantage well of a very rainy spring. Certain leaves peak as high as 2,30 meters. The biggest made 1,70 meter wide.

This carex pendula 'Bowles Golden' countered all the more brillant in front of the dark green background of the spruce.

This bellflower of walls arrived alone at foot of this spruce which is of use to her as support.

Peony among anthemis tinctoria 'Sauce hollandaise'.

This shrubby Veronica or hebe ' Green Globe ' blooms for the first time at the end of four years.

The helianthemums seem more resistant that one says it. This one resisted for three years to the wet winters of Normandy.

Helianthemum 'Rodanthe Carneum'