Ooh, thanks @floralies, actually it was the red I wanted, the most, there being quite a few others similar to mandarin and coral I can get, but that site does sell a few orange echinaceas so I may order some of those!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
.... I think this is more to do with there being no market for them here though so it's not worth paying the shipping costs and dealing with customs and regulations to bring them over.
You're right about the need for demand before garden centers consider carrying an item. I enjoy the pleasure of discovering something new for my garden, but many of the people in my area are happy to buy easy things at big box DIY stores. Since marigolds and impatiens are just fine with these customers, the centers aren't motivated to take a chance on plants that customers don't see as tried and true.
@mnist . Have you tried looking for Lysimachia Innlyscand.
On the RHS site it says Lysimachia Candela='Innlyscand'
Name status: preferred selling name.
Sorry if you tried already. Was just a thought as in the U.K. Clematis Hagley hybrid is known as Pink Chiffon across the pond.
Thank you for that information! As soon as I saw your post I started a new search - still with no results. Thank goodness the Internet makes searching across the country possible. I emailed several plant wholesalers as well as the few good garden centers in the area. With so many growers on vacation during the winter, sending those messages felt a bit like sending messages in a bottle! We'll see where it goes.
I find it very frustrating that the majority of seed companies in the UK offer free plants for the cost cost of postage or free plants with an order, etc............but won't send to Ireland
The nearest I normally get to the want but can't get scenario is at Garden Shows where I see a wonderful plant only to be told it's still in development and not available for sale yet. Drives me nuts!
I suffer plant-envy on a smaller scale. If I see something in a garden wherever I travel, I try to find out what it is and then spend ages trying to find a source. If I’m lucky, the garden’s owner is on hand to give me some info, and very occasionally to give me a cutting.
I think we can all relate to plant-envy to some degree. That's when my cell phone camera comes in: take a photo. The owner of an excellent garden center near me loves a challenge. When I showed him an image I took at an open garden last year, a extensive web search by him finally revealed Actinidia kolomikta 'Arctic Beauty' as a plant we both might like to try.
A cutting?? Best thing ever; doesn't happen often enough in my experience.
Phones cameras are really useful for making notes of odd plants. I saw a ground-cover plant I really liked at a caravan park growing among some stachys and snapped a pic on my phone. After showing it to several garden centres someone finally worked out it was some kind of Lamium but nowhere had it in stock or could get it for me. I've found similar ones on-line but don't fancy paying the postage costs as the main suppliers don't have them. I ended up buying a few varieties from garden centres though and using them in wall planters which worked really well. I'm still keeping my eye open for this one though so I can replicate this planting scheme.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
@wild edges - I think that's Lamium maculatum, or spotted henbit. It grows wild in New England or somewhere. I found something very like it growing on a roadside verge near where I lived in Northumberland, so I liberated some... then transported some of it to my present garden, where it quickly faded away. Soil too acid or damp, perhaps.
My reason for wanting it was to replicate a planting scheme I'd seen in someone else's garden, too. This was way before mobile phones had cameras in... but I still remember it as being stunningly attractive; Rosa glauca above, with grey-green leaves and pink flowers, with a carpet below of Lamium maculatum and Ajuga reptans 'Burgundy Glow'. Same colour pink in the leaves of the Ajuga as in the Lamium and rose flowers, tying everything together.
I like your combo too...
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A cutting?? Best thing ever; doesn't happen often enough in my experience.
My reason for wanting it was to replicate a planting scheme I'd seen in someone else's garden, too. This was way before mobile phones had cameras in... but I still remember it as being stunningly attractive; Rosa glauca above, with grey-green leaves and pink flowers, with a carpet below of Lamium maculatum and Ajuga reptans 'Burgundy Glow'. Same colour pink in the leaves of the Ajuga as in the Lamium and rose flowers, tying everything together.
I like your combo too...