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Curmudgeon' s Corner. I blame it on the heat. (2)

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  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    Probably because they've read all the posts saying, "Can you show us the whole plant, a close up of the leaves, the graft, put something beside it for scale, sharper focus .......
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Jo........😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Some shrubs should be carefully pruned about 6" below soil level.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Especially the ones that need 5 or 6 ID pictures. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    It does seem that there might be a serious problem if that many photos are necessary.
    I find ceanothus sinister-looking. Those dull green leaves and blossom that doesn't match. More Halloween than pumpkins in my opinion. Ditto that black grass and forsythia lacks the subtlety that I want in spring. I wouldn't mind it in the summer, but a splash of bright yellow in the spring jars .
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Have to agree about forsythia in spring but wouldn't want it in summer or autumn either.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Yes @Obelixx. But I was trying to be positive. Actually, I hate them.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    edited September 2018
    Ceanothus, I thought it was just me.  So sombre, it reminds me of a police station.  Forsythia, now there's a marmite plant.  I love it, who wants subtlety in spring?  There's a reason why it's called Spring and not Creep Stealthily.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited September 2018
    Spring lightly like a young gazelle -  not gallumph like an elephant stamping out a fire.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    B3 said:
    Spring lightly like a young gazelle -  not gallumph like an elephant stamping out a fire.
    That’s why the elegant, old fashioned and rarely seen Forsythia suspensa works and the more modern yellow shaving brushes just don’t. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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