@Johnny canoe your ecinops looks really healthy, what month was that? mine went all brown and looked bad, but still had flowers. I've chopped most back now as they were looking too ugly, once the flowering had finished.
Hello RoddersUK, That picture was taken 2 days ago, we had a very slow start this spring (cold early June) and all my perennials seem behind. I have two ecinops and the other is just now about to bloom. And being in Alberta in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains our last frost date is actually June 1st.
Never had mine go brown, but there is a big green worn that builds nests in them and my sea holly, I have to keep an eye out for them in early spring.
Much better, I'm extremely pleased with it. I trimmed most of the fading blooms about a month ago. I cut one plant in the middle down to the ground, and that is also about to reflower.
I've seen it in autumn, and it also has nice seed heads.
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour".
Gorgeous gardens everyone, mine is looking a bit tatty by comparison. It has had to cope with temperatures up to 40° alternating with thunderstorms and drought before that, SW France.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I’ve been out this morning in my dressing gown as the sun rose ... the garden looks a bit windswept after yesterday’s gales, but there’s not too much damage. OH dashed out there yesterday with a ball of twine and did some emergency tying in 👍
Some autumnal colours are appearing ... the Rosa glauca hips are colouring up nicely. The echinops succumbed to the wind but still looks ok ... but I shall have to lift it off the sedum or whatever it’s called nowadays. The Wilderness is looking a bit dishevelled, but that’s in the nature of a wilderness and the hedgehogs seem to like it 😊 so it’s doing its job.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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I've seen it in autumn, and it also has nice seed heads.
Gorgeous gardens everyone, mine is looking a bit tatty by comparison. It has had to cope with temperatures up to 40° alternating with thunderstorms and drought before that, SW France.
Some autumnal colours are appearing ... the Rosa glauca hips are colouring up nicely. The echinops succumbed to the wind but still looks ok ... but I shall have to lift it off the sedum or whatever it’s called nowadays.
The Wilderness is looking a bit dishevelled, but that’s in the nature of a wilderness and the hedgehogs seem to like it 😊 so it’s doing its job.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
And OHs efforts yesterday saved the sunflowers
That nicotiana sylvestris has been selfseeding in the veg patch for three years now ... I haven’t the heart to tell it that it’s in the wrong place 😂
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thank you, makes it all worthwhile