I was very late planting sweet peas last year, probably mid April, and they were still flowering in November when the obalix they were on was blown over by a gale.
Re the floppy tulips. Was at the hairdressers once when another customer popped a 2p piece into a vase of tulips and said they'll be ok in an hour. And they were. Perked up beautifully.
Sowed 2 more lots of snapdragons last week and low and behold they have sprouted!.......along with some other seeds which I must have sown into the same pots?. I thought I was being careful but obviously not. Snapdragons are so tiny and difficult to see, pricking out is going to be fun.
Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
My old red Bishop babies dahlias have gone to a friends new garden, potted up and in her conservatory. I have a lot of new dahlia tubers potted up, mainly from Lidl. They currently have some giant dahlia (dinner plate dahlia) tubers. On Sunday they are expecting some coral frizzle gladioli, I think they should match the flower colour plan.
I have potted up some more dahlias today. They are in only just big enough pots. I will have to pot on into bigger ones when I rescue some from the back of mums garage. The greenhouse is already looking full. I got a load of coral frizzle gladioli in Sunday. I had to visit two Lidls to get enough. I have also put in a seed order to Chiltern, to include some stocks (vintage peach)
One from Last Christmas. I bought some amaryllis bulbs that were already sprouted, and dropped them in a large vase. One of the heads broke off so it went into an old whisky bottle. Three flower spikes on each 2.99 bulb. Not bad I thought. ryllis bulbs that were already sprouted, and dropped them in a large vase.
Sowing has started. I am waiting in for a delivery so I bought trays down from the greenhouse and messed up the kitchen. Sweet peas...Juliet, April in Paris, Champagne bubbles, Jilly, Stocks Vintage peach Larkspur white king. Delphiniums flower too early for a September wedding, so I am hoping these will do the same job. Cosmos Cupcakes white and Double dutch white. Cleome Helen Campbell (white) Limonium sinuatum (statice) Apricot beauty Limonium latifolium (sea lavender) I will plant another batch of sweet peas in a month as I hope to be able to push them into September.
I have gained another rose bowl. My friend found one in a charity shop for 99p. Not bad for Edinburgh crystal.
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I was very late planting sweet peas last year, probably mid April, and they were still flowering in November when the obalix they were on was blown over by a gale.
Re the floppy tulips. Was at the hairdressers once when another customer popped a 2p piece into a vase of tulips and said they'll be ok in an hour. And they were. Perked up beautifully.
Sowed 2 more lots of snapdragons last week and low and behold they have sprouted!.......along with some other seeds which I must have sown into the same pots?. I thought I was being careful but obviously not. Snapdragons are so tiny and difficult to see, pricking out is going to be fun.
Sweet peas...Juliet, April in Paris, Champagne bubbles, Jilly,
Stocks Vintage peach
Larkspur white king. Delphiniums flower too early for a September wedding, so I am hoping these will do the same job.
Cosmos Cupcakes white and Double dutch white.
Cleome Helen Campbell (white)
Limonium sinuatum (statice) Apricot beauty
Limonium latifolium (sea lavender)
I will plant another batch of sweet peas in a month as I hope to be able to push them into September.
I have gained another rose bowl. My friend found one in a charity shop for 99p. Not bad for Edinburgh crystal.