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the favourite plant in your garden
fakel19961
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Describe your favourite plant in your garden. Why do you like it? Is it because it's beatiful? Or perhaps it gives you energy or it needs much care as a child or it can relieve your feelings? Please share your thoughts with me!
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I've got deja vu.....
Think we've been here before with this.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
If I remember correctly the OP is researching the difference between gardening cultures in the UK and Russia. I know a Russian who trained recently as a garden designer ... She said that the concept was virtually unknown to many Russians but there is now a bit of a boom in leisure gardening.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Can't pick a favourite. It can change from time of year and even time of day because of the way seasons and light affect how plants grow and look. I can get really excited in spring when I see plants poking up their noses after a hard winter or a wet one which can also be fatal to some and I can get ridiculously excited when something produces flawless new leaves (bulbs, hostas, Japanese maples, loads of other shrubs and perennials) or delicious buds open into glorious or just dainty flowers. And then there are the flowers fading to make intricate seed heads and foliage changes in autumn and the stark outlines of bare branches in winter or just the combinations of form and colour in the garden as a whole as the seasons evolve.
Endless enjoyment.
I'm with you obelisk, it really does depend on time of year for example: i adored my "minnow" narcissi, so small and exquisite and bright in spring, plus my deep velvety tulips "national velvet" then the blossom on the green gage trees, the lovely tastes of home grown purple sprouting broccoli and broadbeans, the smell of my climbing roses, the beautiful allium display, pretty vanilla fraise and annabelle hydrangeas, the smell of freshly mown grass and now the autumn colour of our lovely oaks, so much to treasure ?
Erigeron karvinskianus. Lovely dainty little things that pop up around the garden in sunny spots and that have turned one of my south facing walls into a mass of delicate white and pink flowers in summer. They also flower all summer long.
My favourite plant is whichever one I'm looking at. Except the bindweed my non-gardening neighbours so generously share with me.