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Post by cheerypeabrain on Feb 23, 2011 21:08:33 GMT
Lovely pics CPB some day I`ll grow a cleome like that, a beautiful flower ,I`ve seed sowed again this year, ever hopeful. Where are you gardening from? and whats your soil like ? It's strange how some years are better than others for plants and seeds isn't it. I remember one year was supposed to be 'A bad year for peas' my BiL (a farmer) knew several growers who had terrible pea crops that year. We live in Leicestershire, a few miles from the city centre so we're quite sheltered. We've been here since 1984, and the garden was just grass until the late nineties. The soil was originally quite claggy altho it's pretty good now, not too many stones, neutral pH and improved year on year with garden compost and the odd bag of well rotted farmyard manure. |
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Feb 23, 2011 21:12:44 GMT
Just?  ??.....you have a lovely garden, and I love your colour combinations ;D Thanks Lou...that means a lot. We only have a very small space, and as I haven't been gardening for that long (compared to many) it's still a case of trial and error. When planning and executing a flower border it's an intensely personal thing isn't it ? AND...of course I only show you the good bits....  |
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Post by Lou78W on Feb 23, 2011 21:21:24 GMT
Just? ??.....you have a lovely garden, and I love your colour combinations ;D Thanks Lou...that means a lot. We only have a very small space, and as I haven't been gardening for that long (compared to many) it's still a case of trial and error. When planning and executing a flower border it's an intensely personal thing isn't it ? AND...o f course I only show you the good bits.
... Don't we all....lol  ......No matter how long we have been gardening....there is always something to learn....thats what I like about it....and like minded folk sharing their experiences ;D |
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Post by Geranium on Feb 23, 2011 21:32:25 GMT
Too true, Lou - like me and the dreaded Hedychium! Why on earth did I buy it?  |
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Post by Lou78W on Feb 23, 2011 21:34:45 GMT
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Post by Geranium on Feb 23, 2011 21:38:35 GMT
Especially now I've found your thread on ginger lilies and the penny has dropped! Eeeek! |
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Post by grindle on Feb 24, 2011 6:01:14 GMT
your plants are lovely cheery, do you find the Lysimachia Beaujolis comes back each year? I've tried a couple of times and it's disappeared after the winter  |
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Post by Cherry on Feb 24, 2011 6:29:41 GMT
Excuse my ignorance, but what is the double orange flower with the black centre?
Lovely plants. ;D
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Post by grindle on Feb 24, 2011 6:36:52 GMT
Looks like a Rudbeckia Cherry (sorry for butting in)
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Post by Geranium on Feb 24, 2011 9:18:25 GMT
your plants are lovely cheery, do you find the Lysimachia Beaujolis comes back each year? I've tried a couple of times and it's disappeared after the winter I got told yesterday that they do vanish, G, and mine have every time I've tried. That's it - no more.  |
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Feb 24, 2011 9:27:21 GMT
Excuse my ignorance, but what is the double orange flower with the black centre? Lovely plants. ;D It's a Rudbeckia Cherry, Cherokee Sunset.. I really loved it, but unfortunately it was nobbled in winter 2010. (Think it's grown as an HHA anyway) |
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Feb 24, 2011 9:29:15 GMT
your plants are lovely cheery, do you find the Lysimachia Beaujolis comes back each year? I've tried a couple of times and it's disappeared after the winter I got told yesterday that they do vanish, G, and mine have every time I've tried. That's it - no more. I managed to keep mine for a couple of years, but last year there was no sign. A short lived perennial.... |
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Post by Geranium on Feb 24, 2011 9:30:11 GMT
VERY!! 
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Feb 24, 2011 18:49:03 GMT
Hohum...spent a pleasant couple of hours pottering in the garden. There are lots of mystery perennials popping up and I can't for the life of me remember what most of them are. I can recognise the agastache cos the new foliage starts off a lovely purply colour....but most of the rest are anybody's guess...
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Post by esther on Feb 24, 2011 19:01:16 GMT
Beautiful photos CPB  |
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??.....you have a lovely garden, and I love your colour combinations ;D
......No matter how long we have been gardening....there is always something to learn....thats what I like about it....and like minded folk sharing their experiences ;D
