Perki ,you've had a string of disappointments but it's good to see you had some successes too.. gardener is synonymous with optimist. Our glass will be 3/4 full next year b####r 1/2 full
A disappointment of a slightly different kind: when the seedlings appeared I thought great, maybe I'm going to succeed in growing carrots at last. But surely I only sowed one row, some of these are a long way from home. A week later and the lovely ferny foliage is growing fast, I wonder if it smells carroty yet? Pinch, sniff, no, Google. I've been cherishing a fine crop of ...... Fumitory. A pretty wild flower which I'm happy to tolerate in most parts of the garden, but in my veg beds, sorry, it's a weed, out it comes. I remember my dear old dad finding a tall handsome plant that had gatecrashed his garden. He watered it and checked its progress eagerly. When it flowered, it turned out to be rosebay willow herb.
A lady at my church caused a bit of a stir last week by including ragwort in a flower arrangement. The gardeners among us cleaned our glasses, put them back on, and went : Ragwort!? What the...!? The non-gardeners went:. Ooh, what are those lovely little yellow flowers? It's my turn to do the church flowers next week. Does anyone know how well the lovely white bells of bindweed last in water?
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Perki ,you've had a string of disappointments but it's good to see you had some successes too.. gardener is synonymous with optimist. Our glass will be 3/4 full next year b####r 1/2 full
They don't like to be planted too deep, the roots only need to be about an inch below the surface.
Perki,
I've found that a good sprinkling of wood ash tickled into the soil around hemerocallis each Spring produces loads of flowers.
Worth a try.
Bee
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Thanks I'll look into encouraging the hemerocallis to flower.
A disappointment of a slightly different kind: when the seedlings appeared I thought great, maybe I'm going to succeed in growing carrots at last. But surely I only sowed one row, some of these are a long way from home. A week later and the lovely ferny foliage is growing fast, I wonder if it smells carroty yet? Pinch, sniff, no, Google. I've been cherishing a fine crop of ...... Fumitory. A pretty wild flower which I'm happy to tolerate in most parts of the garden, but in my veg beds, sorry, it's a weed, out it comes. I remember my dear old dad finding a tall handsome plant that had gatecrashed his garden. He watered it and checked its progress eagerly. When it flowered, it turned out to be rosebay willow herb.
A lady at my church caused a bit of a stir last week by including ragwort in a flower arrangement. The gardeners among us cleaned our glasses, put them back on, and went : Ragwort!? What the...!? The non-gardeners went:. Ooh, what are those lovely little yellow flowers? It's my turn to do the church flowers next week. Does anyone know how well the lovely white bells of bindweed last in water?
Salvia 'Caradonna' was very good, but not the perpetual flowerer I had hoped for. Good enough to keep but not as one of the mainstays of the garden.
Euphorbia oblongata from seed turned out to be pretty dull. Maybe it's my soil?
Thalictrum 'Elin' was a big disappointment. Nice leaves in spring, but the tiny flowers born on the enormous flowerheads were underwhelming.
Thalictrum delavayi, grown from seed, flowered for the first time this year and has been brilliant; it's been going for months!
Miscanthus 'Malepartus' - bulked up fast for me and is producing lovely flowers.
At least that name is intentional. I was out with my mum once when she asked the lady in the garden centre if she had cistitis instead of cytisus.
Reminds me of the dad-to-be who asked the midwife if he could cut the baby's biblical cord.
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I tasted the first of my gardeners' delight tomatoes. They tasted like - well - tomatoes.
I've had better ones from the supermarket.
However, my OH, who insisted we grew some tomatoes this year, thinks they're delicious.
Mind over matter or jaded tastebuds?
Mine are fine and sweet tasting.
'You must have some bread with it me duck!'