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Sometimes nature does it better without us.

josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
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Derelict railway land in the middle of Llandudno's industrial quarter.

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  • FlinsterFlinster Posts: 883
    Beautiful!
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    That's lovely @josusa47 . I'm trying to persuade our local council not to cut the grass on the large verge outside our house, it's a mass of daisies and buttercups
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    Those in the know come here in August to pick blackberries.
  • Xander RanderXander Rander Posts: 70
    @josusa47 it has indeed done it better than us for the past billion or so years ;)

    what is the name name of the pink and white flower? I salvaged some from the front of my garden to grow elsewhere and I love it (as do the bees). I only have pink and was hoping to find it or buy it in different colours but have no clue what it is called.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited May 2019
    Xander Rander said:
    @josusa47 it has indeed done it better than us for the past billion or so years ;)

    what is the name name of the pink and white flower? I salvaged some from the front of my garden to grow elsewhere and I love it (as do the bees). I only have pink and was hoping to find it or buy it in different colours but have no clue what it is called.
    Centranthus ruber ‘alba’ 

    There is also a red as well as the pink version. 

    The local authority here grew a mix very similar to that on some roundabouts and roadside beds and they self-seeded for several years.  😊 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Xander RanderXander Rander Posts: 70
    @Dovefromabove thank you so much! I’ve noticed it never takes you long to identify plants! There needs to be a forum sticky dedicated to you and your plant identification :smiley:
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    You’re very kind @Xander Rander 🙏.... there’s lots of folk with good plant knowledge on here ... sometimes I get it right, sometimes I don’t 😆 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    That picture illustrates beautifully why I encourage plants to self seed, some of the combinations that it creates, are far better than I would come up with.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    There is no doubt that nature would do best of all if we buggered off entirely.
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    My verges coordinate their ribbons of colour and form beautifully... whether thats setting off the purple aquilegias against vivid green euphorbias, pairing yellow helianthemums with white flowering thyme and a taller white airy one I don't know, or just the most enormous swathe of red poppies...

    Nature gets succession planting so right too, just as one thing fades...
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
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