I did pay £35 for an intersectional double yellow , three years back. It was only a small plant then, but last year it had six gorgeous flowers. I think it is Bartzella. Although a double, it still attracts insects.
That is lovely, FB. Fabulous daffodils too. 'Carlton' spoke to me too, Chicky, though my favourite daff is Narcissus pseudonarcissus - to me it's the perfect combination of size, delicacy, colour and shape.
Sorting pallets and random bits of wood today, into keep and use, break up to use wood and get rid. I told you I'm a hoarder. Fun!
Onwards and upwards Pat. It does sound like it's really knocked you for six .
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
I remember when I was still living 'at home' Ma planting Carlton daffs down the driveway to the farmhouse where we lived ... they naturalised and spread beautifully ...apart from the year when we came home from a shopping trip and found a car parked in the drive and a family picking the whole damn lot of them
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Love peonies of any shape and form but especially the big bowl flowers. Never managed to get a tree peony to survive a winter in my Belgian garden but have inherited one here that is simply luscious, so much so I've ordered seeds for lutea from the RHS seed scheme.
When he planted his, Monty did not tease out the roots and, after Mrs Peony had just said put them 2cms below the surface he planted at soil level or even a bit proud so my poor under-gardener was confused "Don't we tease out roots anymore?" As if I'd let him plant anything anyway. He has black thumbs. Good for labouring and strimming and cutting grass and turning compost and, at last, weeding between straight lines of recognisable veggies but things die when he plants them.
I also love creamy and white daffs such as Ice Follies which did very well in the Belgian garden and stood up to strong March and April winds and rain.
There was a nursery that brought fancy hemerocallis to the plant fair at Aywiers. Some so fancy they were on sale for 150 to 250€ a pot. I wasn't tempted.
OK - time to get on after a sleepy lie-in cos I kept waking up with full leg cramps every time I turned in my sleep last night.
Have fun with the GHs Chicky and you with your wood puzzles LG.
Dove - I once went outside to the car to find a woman and her 2 granddaughters filling their riding hats with our raspberries growing in the patch across the road. In deeply ironic ones I said I was pleased she liked our English raspberries but would she be so kind as to leave some for us. She claimed not to have seen the fencing round my fruit plot.
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)."
To be fair, the peony woman said "No deeper than 2cm", rather than "must be 2cm" below the surface. I think Monty was correct and not in conflict - I imagine the 'up to 2cm' would apply to tubers mainly, and he was planting plants, so retaining the same depth as in the pot and going no deeper makes sense.
The pallets and odd bits of wood are now in unsightly piles on the patio - to make sure I get round to doing something with it all!
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Fabulous daffodils too. 'Carlton' spoke to me too, Chicky, though my favourite daff is Narcissus pseudonarcissus - to me it's the perfect combination of size, delicacy, colour and shape.
Sorting pallets and random bits of wood today, into keep and use, break up to use wood and get rid. I told you I'm a hoarder. Fun!
Onwards and upwards Pat. It does sound like it's really knocked you for six
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
When he planted his, Monty did not tease out the roots and, after Mrs Peony had just said put them 2cms below the surface he planted at soil level or even a bit proud so my poor under-gardener was confused "Don't we tease out roots anymore?" As if I'd let him plant anything anyway. He has black thumbs. Good for labouring and strimming and cutting grass and turning compost and, at last, weeding between straight lines of recognisable veggies but things die when he plants them.
I also love creamy and white daffs such as Ice Follies which did very well in the Belgian garden and stood up to strong March and April winds and rain.
There was a nursery that brought fancy hemerocallis to the plant fair at Aywiers. Some so fancy they were on sale for 150 to 250€ a pot. I wasn't tempted.
OK - time to get on after a sleepy lie-in cos I kept waking up with full leg cramps every time I turned in my sleep last night.
Have fun with the GHs Chicky and you with your wood puzzles LG.
Dove - I once went outside to the car to find a woman and her 2 granddaughters filling their riding hats with our raspberries growing in the patch across the road. In deeply ironic ones I said I was pleased she liked our English raspberries but would she be so kind as to leave some for us. She claimed not to have seen the fencing round my fruit plot.
A A Milne
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The pallets and odd bits of wood are now in unsightly piles on the patio - to make sure I get round to doing something with it all!