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  • Surely my Castor Oil plant has stopped growing now, 7 foot tall and countingI love these gallardia as much as the bees do, although none visitingBishop out there todayBishop's Children Dahlias still producing beautiful blooms
  • PerkiPerki Posts: 2,527
    It wonderful @Victoria Sponge that sanguisorba .C has been flowering for quite a while it seems. How long that persicaria been flowering in the background ? I am still on the fence about persicaria but I like the flowers .
  • Thanks Perki😊 

    The sanguisorba started mid Aug but has about finished now, the bees have lost interest anyway. It's a bit of a beast. I love persicaria but they do have a crazy weed look to them. The one near the house is Firedance and started flowering at the end of July and isn't finished yet. I suspect it gets some protection from the house wall, not that it needs it, but it is the biggest of all my persicaria (so far).
    Wearside, England.
  • PerkiPerki Posts: 2,527
    The weed look puts me off Persicaria but I have a thing for spike flowers 
  • Janie BJanie B Posts: 963
    I love my persicaria blackfield! Not sure what gives it (or indeed your lovely one) a "crazy weed look"! #justwondering!
    Lincolnshire
  • Janie B said:
    I love my persicaria blackfield! Not sure what gives it (or indeed your lovely one) a "crazy weed look"! #justwondering!
    If the growing conditions are not ideal they can look a bit ragged I think? Like the one near the front of my second photo...They also have the knotweed connection and they remind me sometimes of dock😀 I love them though and have many varieties and have also kept some pretty seedlings (I find they seed a lot). 
    Wearside, England.
  • All your garden look so fresh & alive, mine is in deep decline of faded flowers & leaves.
    AB Still learning

  • cornellycornelly Posts: 970
    We are both full of cold's but can enjoy the view from the dining room window
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