Ive been experimenting with patches of long lawn grass the past couple of years, I definitely like grasses.
Im think stipa gigantea could be useful partially obscuring the garden from the kitchen and providing some morning shade from the sun as we get a bit blinded making coffee 😉
@BenCotto lovely garden and wow! my idea of the perfect greenhouse x Could I ask what the magenta geranium is .... psilostemon/Anne Folkard? Anne F is to rampant for my garden I'm afraid.
Also do you find echinops easy to grow and what type of soil and growing conditions do you think they need. I have tried them once but failed.
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Indeed it is Anne Folkard, I think, and not Ann Thompson. We have both and I can’t remember which is which but I am reasonably sure we’re looking at Ms Folkard in the photo. She’s a more strapping lass than Ms T.
Those echinops grew rather too well there and the neighbours complained so I evicted them to a neighbouring bed. The soil in our garden - and apologies to those who have challenging conditions - is a deep, fertile, largely stone free loam.The echinops also self seeded so I would recommend giving them another go.
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I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
May 2017, just a couple of weeks after planting
There are three stipa in the bottom right corner in the patch of shade.
When I find and resize them I’ll post pictures from 2018, 2019 and 2020 so you can see the progression
August 2017, flowering well in the first year
This one is April 2018, obviously taken from the opposite direction from picture 1
I’ll post 2019 and 2020 separately.
Ive been experimenting with patches of long lawn grass the past couple of years, I definitely like grasses.
Im think stipa gigantea could be useful partially obscuring the garden from the kitchen and providing some morning shade from the sun as we get a bit blinded making coffee 😉
Here’s August 2019
And this final one is August 2020 with added greenhouse
Also do you find echinops easy to grow and what type of soil and growing conditions do you think they need. I have tried them once but failed.
The older you get, the more you realise that it is OK to live a life others don't understand.
Indeed it is Anne Folkard, I think, and not Ann Thompson. We have both and I can’t remember which is which but I am reasonably sure we’re looking at Ms Folkard in the photo. She’s a more strapping lass than Ms T.
Those echinops grew rather too well there and the neighbours complained so I evicted them to a neighbouring bed. The soil in our garden - and apologies to those who have challenging conditions - is a deep, fertile, largely stone free loam.The echinops also self seeded so I would recommend giving them another go.
The greenhouse maker, incidentally, is Cultivar.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I shall remember your tip: folk is like yolk.