Firecracker

Thats lovely..........

It doesn't look so happy now...the rain has beaten it down but I'll tie it up tomorrow!

It's the wind that keeps smashing my plants down. I am getting very disheartend this year. We have had strong wind virtually every day this month but very little rain until the end of last week!

This is a fantastic looking plant . I love the contrast of leaf and flower colour. i can't say i've ever seen it before!

Paul you can have some of our rain if you wont, mind you to say it keeps raining the winds are drying everything as quick as they get wet, so still have to water everything.

Same here Clarice. My front lawn is brown as the wind scorches it !

They reckoned we where suppose to have a good summer, did'nt they, so i suppose that week we had that lovely weather, was our summer thats been and gone.

That's why I bought this plant...for the leaf colour...I love the red & purple colours of things to break up the green.
Someone said we are due the hot weather back in a couple of weeks....here's hoping!

Thats all we can do is keep hoping.

I don't mind a drop of rain and I'm not too keen on very hot weather but my main bugbear is the strong winds! They're battering my garden again today. I'm virtually giving up because I'm so fed up keep tying and resatking plants.

I really agree Paul...it's the wind that causes most damage...sometimes irreperable if the stems get snapped or uprooted. One half of our garden is calm & totally windfree while down by the back door it's like a tornado whipping round the side of the house & things get ruined.

Keep up with the damage limitation...it'll be worth it if we get some nice weather again! :0)

We have had some rain here like you wouldnt believe....It was falling so hard it snapped all the large flower heads off some of my roses...i was so annoyed...has eased now though....:>)...I think i have this plant Fluff, i think its called Lysimachia and the variety you and i have is 'firecracker'....someone here on GOY said its a bit of a spreader, what do you think?...this is the first year for mine...:>)

A it of a spreader is putting it mildly Motinot...the little runners pop up everywhere near the main plant. Like the zebra grass tho' it's extremely easy to pull up. Lysimachia rings a bell...I'm so hopeless at remembering the names of my plants!

I walked round the garden this evening...didn't take long!...& it was heartbreaking to see the rain damage. All the petals on things are slimy & stuck together & I swear the rain has washed the colour out of some flowers like the violas & surfinas. ;0(

Thats beautiful Fluff

Thank you Deida...it's looking very weather beaten now tho'. ;0(

like the flowers in my garden.it is heartbreaking

I planted one of these this year I hope it's as good as yours

I have this in a corner under the apple tree and some Deutzia .

A friend gave it to me and warned me that it is "very rampant". Anyway I am going to move some of it a different area this autumn. So we'll see what happens!