Flowers J - L
These pictures have all been taken in our garden over the years. Please let me know if I have labelled any of them incorrectly. Some of them will be duplicated where I know both the Latin and "common" name. Apologies for not knowing the exact details rather than the generics - a lot of the flowers were here when we arrived, some of the others were from "mixed" selections etc.
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Kerria Japonica
The Kerria Japonica Pleniflora (Japanese Rose) lives at the bottom of the garden, past the vegetable patches and before you reach the work area so provides a good backdrop for that part of the garden. If we're lucky we get a couple of flowerings each year. It has a hard winter prune each year otherwise it just takes over. As it is, it tries to send out new runners to spead itself about so needs keeping under control.
We have Lavender (Lavendula) all around the garden as I love the smell - I find it really relaxing and de-stressing. The flower harvest goes to Gilda each year to make things with (not exactly sure what she does with it!) but the bees go crazy for it and buzz around it quite happily - maybe they like the smell as much as me? Helen and Jonathon's Mum gave us some new plants (cuttings) last year and I took some myself so some will go to Yorkshire for my Mum & Dad's garden and some will get planted in our garden once they're big enough.
Lavender
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Lavetera
Unfortunately, we've now lost our Lavetera (Mallow) bush. The gales last winter were simply too much for it to cope with and it gave up the ghost. One day perhaps we'll replace it with another one as they are beautiful flowers.
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Lily
The Lilies (Lilium) are pretty majestic but plagued in the last couple of years by Scarlet Lily Beetle that just munches its way through the leaves and flowers, destroying everything in its wake. We still managed to get a few flowers this year (2005) but have to be vigilant and remove the beetles whenever we see them.
Love-in-a-Mist
It's hard to believe that these flowers are from the same family but that's what the seed packets said! The one on the left (I think) is Nigella Damascena (Love-in-a-Mist) - not sure of the one on the right. They self seed and settle wherever in the garden so unless you want a lot of them make sure you deadhead regularly.
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Lupin
I grew these Lupin (Lupinus)from seed and am pleased with the way they've performed. The problem in the early years of big fat greenfly seems to have eased off a bit with the import of a lot of ladybirds each year (I don't like using chemicals, sprays etc.). There is another lupin clump on the right hand side of the garden which can be equally spectacular.
Lysimachia (aka loosestrife as far as I know) spreads itself around its area and therefore grows wider every year. Its spikes of yellow flowers are lovely, if a little shortlived, and attract the insects very well. It sits next to the cistus so the yellow of this flower picks up the yellow of the cistus centre very nicely.
Lysimachia
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