Bloomscrolling--what's in bloom where you are?

[AndyD]

In London for daughters birthday and it's summer here. Roses...

[AndyD]

Even the small areas around street trees are flourishing. Here self seeded poppy and malva(?)

[Steve Miller]

Your roses look fantastic!

[AndyD]

They're not mine alas, just walking the dog in London admiring some gardens near our flat.

[rustyfingers]

Lovely roses. I've given up on hybrid roses. My family in Oregon can grow them spectacularly, but my luck with them in New England has been kinda heartbreaking.

My bloomscroll today is the native blue flag iris.

[wtg]

@rustyfingers said in Bloomscrolling--what's in bloom where you are?:

Lovely roses. I've given up on hybrid roses.

I'm trying own-root roses from this outfit:

https://heirloomroses.com/blogs/about-us-ordering/about

Costco had them online last year and I bought three of them. Everybody made it through the winter, though there was a fair amount of dieback. I had planted one is what turned out to be too much of a shady area, so I moved it this year and it's rebounding nicely.

OTOH, I'm now remembering why I stopped growing roses years ago...they seem to be susceptible to every imaginable disease and insect that's out there....

[Steve Miller]

Bayer Rose and Flower systemic works very well.

[AndyD]

Iris are so beautiful, ours aren't flowering yet, while in old Londinium they're all but finished.
Except these two from my early dog walk around Woodford

[AndyD]

And some other blooms I came across (help me with names please)

Red hot poker

Judas plant?

And a stunning bottle brush(?)

[Steve Miller]

#2 I know as Agapanthus Africanus - Lily of the Nile.

[AndyD]

Noticed daughter's rose in three stages of bloom