Quick query about your fab glads... were they in the ground? I have some in pots that look very healthy, but no sign of any flowers! Do you know if they are likely to flower if left in pots?
Pitter-patter, how to you stop your gyp getting slugged? Mine was reduced to dusty earth over night.
Mask flower? I'm not that impressed. I haven't given them ideal conditions as I was planning to plant them out in June but it's so dry I have kept them in a too-small pot. The red is quite washed out - not like the zingy pictures. I was hoping for good height, which hasn't happened. Sarah Raven raves about them as cut flowers, and they are useful for that. They last well - a bit like red gyp. - airy, light. I've not seen any insects on them. A bif of a damp squib. They are tender, so you could take pot in or hope for a mild winter. I might collect seed, but after all the gut-busting effort to get them going, I'd rather go with a perennial daisy form like coreopsis or a wild flower like linaria, which is a bit similar in its tall spike.
The slugs weren’t really interested in the gypsophila; they preferred the nearby Coreopsis. I have to say that I didn’t have that many slugs this year. I did pick a lot of them up in the night and took them to the woods.
Thank you for the information about the mask flower. I’ve seen the pictures on SR’s website and I liked, as you say, their airy look. Maybe not a good year for them.
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Gorgeous. Thanks everybody.
Quick query about your fab glads... were they in the ground? I have some in pots that look very healthy, but no sign of any flowers! Do you know if they are likely to flower if left in pots?
Thank you for the information about the mask flower. I’ve seen the pictures on SR’s website and I liked, as you say, their airy look. Maybe not a good year for them.