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Editor's Journal: Stonecrop

A sunny hazy day only in the upper 70s--perhaps the rainiest summer in a decade has become more normal. In the Flower Garden the Lobelias are looking wonderfully fresh, the Cannas are getting taller, and many wonderful individual plants and combinations of plants are everywhere. Elsewhere, a surprisingly fragrant Crassula is covered with red flowers in the Cactus collection, an unusual vine is blooming in a poly house, a fuzzy leaved Oxalis is blooming in the Alpine House, and in a flashback to spring, pots of the Autumn Snowflake are blooming under glass. Continue.

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Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit plants indicated by AGM.

Lobelia 'Kompliment Deep Red' and red leaved Canna sp. star in the red section of the Rainbow Bed.
Lobelia and Canna
Sambucus canadensis 'Aurea'
The rich purplish-black berries of an Elder Berry laden with fruit in the Rainbow Bed. A member of the Caprifoliaceae family native to Canada and eastern US.
A glowing white Phlox has joined the other white bloomers in the White Garden shown on August 15.
Phlox
Salvia involucrata
A tender sub-shrub native to Mexico, this Salvia has fuzzy brilliant magenta flowers.
AGM
A truly tall Canna with green leaves edged with red--the uncurled leaves look like a barber pole.
"Barber Pole" Canna
Over the Top!
These Cannas seen from outside the Flower Garden are clearly "over the top"--towering above the six foot wooden wall.
A large planting of yellow Salvia glutinosa on the left and tall dark leaved Cannas on the right in front of the tower of the potting shed. Unlike many of the tender species of Salvia at Stonecrop which are native to Mexico, S. glutinosa is a hardy species native to Europe and central Asia
Salvia and Canna
Hypoestes and Perilla
Hypoestes phyllostachya 'Red Splash' looked great with Loropetalum chinense f. rubrum on July 28, and here another planting of 'Red Splash' is a perfect color match with Perilla frutescens 'Atropurpurea.' (AGM)
A member of the Stonecrop Cacti collection enjoying the summer outdoors in the courtyard by the garage.
Crassula falcata
Crassula
A close-up of one of the stalks of surprisingly fragrant flowers. A member of the Crassulaceae family native to South Africa.
Blooming in one of the poly houses with white flowers striped with maroon--a climbing member of the Asclepiadaceae family native to Brazil and Peru. Known as the Cruel Plant because moths visiting at night can become trapped in the flowers until the sun shines the next morning. The cross-hatched pattern on the leaves is the shadow of shade cloth above.
Araujia sericifera
Oxalis purpurea 'Ken Aslet'
Also under glass, in the Alpine House, an Oxalis with large yellow flowers and pale green leaves covered with soft hairs. The species is native to South Africa and the cultivar is named after a superintendent of the Glasshouses at the RHS Wisley Garden.
No, it is not suddenly spring--the well named Autumn Snowflake is blooming in a pot brought outside for its photo. A member of the Amaryllidaceae family native to Portugal, Morocco, and the Ionian Islands.
AGM
Leucojum autumnale
Angelonia angustifolia 'Tiger Princess'
Where will it go? Blooming in a pot while waiting to be planted, this festively colored tender perennial with no two flowers alike looks like it could have been hand painted in its homeland of Mexico. This bicolor Angel Flower is a member of the Scrophulariaceae family.
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