I once chucked some iris (tubers?) In a corner with cracked paving slabs ready to dump when I got round to it. They dug in and made themselves comfortable, so I left them there to get on with it. They're still going strong.
Dove, I'm rubbish with flowers and you are undeniably the expert. My flowers survive because they want to so chop it back! If the clematis has any spunk it will recover and grow - that's just my way of flower gardening......
As for tarragon, my daughter asked me how to grow this and I told her I couldn't grow it myself and was about to give it up as a bad job. Last year hers prospered, this year mine has come back fiercely and hers has succumbed to something that eats shoots to the ground.
I just love gardening
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
That hop plant B3, my daughter (who has little or no patience) wants something to cover an arch quickly in a part shaded corner, I suggested a Virginia Creeper because I heard they go mad do you think the hop plant would work? It sounds so much nicer.
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
My clematis Marjorie has suffered big time and 99% of the plant is dead. It used to cover the wall behind my greenhouse for about 25 feet. I will take cuttings this month then cut the whole lot back to the stump. It is over 20 years old and was one of the few plants here when I came. My aquilegia viridiflora survived (tiny aquilegia with black/petals and yellow stamens) the winter in its first year and has flowered profusely last month. Lots of heleniums planted last year have gone forever as has my erigeron karv? also planted last year. Geranium Rozanne, planted in the autumn is touch and go.
'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
Right. Before we start, this is not about my housekeeping skills or lack thereof. Anyway, I looked behind a curtain which obscured a corner of the bay in the front room. (How working class to have a front room!) Around about Christmas,I had shoved a few spent amaryllis and one that didn't flower - in fact it did xxxxx all apart from produce a couple of leaves. Well, on emptying a partially used non-pc bottle of water onto a trough of succulents, I chanced to look behind the curtain. There is a bud on the amaryllis - nothing to see here folks -but I will post a pic if anything develops
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As for tarragon, my daughter asked me how to grow this and I told her I couldn't grow it myself and was about to give it up as a bad job. Last year hers prospered, this year mine has come back fiercely and hers has succumbed to something that eats shoots to the ground.
I just love gardening
It's left a big empty space though so I might get a hop plant because they're quick and rampant.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Anyway, I looked behind a curtain which obscured a corner of the bay in the front room. (How working class to have a front room!)
Around about Christmas,I had shoved a few spent amaryllis and one that didn't flower - in fact it did xxxxx all apart from produce a couple of leaves.
Well, on emptying a partially used non-pc bottle of water onto a trough of succulents, I chanced to look behind the curtain. There is a bud on the amaryllis - nothing to see here folks -but I will post a pic if anything develops