Thank you all for saying you like my new patch, I love starting new bits, should concentrate on the old bits really, much more fun starting from scratch though😀
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
I took my monstrous Rozanne out of the border and divided it. I got 15 flowering splits out of one plant and I've put the biggest 8 of those into long grass in a wild border I'm making. They are all flowering away and much better for being in amongst the weeds and having to fight for survival. IME it starts flowering late - June or July - and keeps flowering, even without cutting back, right into November. So it's a good plant, I just don't think it's a border plant.
PS - the Summer King foxgloves have germinated. I've started some 'alba' ones to plant with them in a new border of my own that I'm planning
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
G. Anne Folkard and Anne Thompson do a similar thing, they have flowering stalks that keep extending and flowering exponentially until the frosts. If they're growing in between other stuff that's fine but if they're at the front of a border they can end up looking a strawy mess if you don't keep them in check.
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour".
I’m pleased your summer kings have germinated, Raisingirl I can’t understand how Rozanne won that RHS award, it’s nothing special, although people went mad to buy it after the show.
Ive cut down all the geraniums in my other borders now, looks very bare for a while. I know the pink ones will flower again, not sure about the blue ones, I don’t think they do. Nice fresh green though🙂
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Your new border looks wonderful Lyn. I really admire your propagating skills. I have lots of the blue coloured hardy geranium Brookside, I've just cut them down to the ground. If you want I could send you down some bareroots, they'll soon put on leaves once back in the soil. PM me if you would like some. Brookside always reblooms after being chopped back btw.
Rozanne is sterile, Lyn, so it just keeps on flowering nonstop, that’s the appeal I guess. I have it planted at the front of raised, rocky beds where it cascades down the front and it does that job well. I lop huge bits off when it gets out of control. It crisped badly in the last heatwave so I chopped it right back and it’s off again. It needs something behind it to hide the straggly back though.
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I took my monstrous Rozanne out of the border and divided it. I got 15 flowering splits out of one plant and I've put the biggest 8 of those into long grass in a wild border I'm making. They are all flowering away and much better for being in amongst the weeds and having to fight for survival. IME it starts flowering late - June or July - and keeps flowering, even without cutting back, right into November. So it's a good plant, I just don't think it's a border plant.
PS - the Summer King foxgloves have germinated. I've started some 'alba' ones to plant with them in a new border of my own that I'm planning
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I can’t understand how Rozanne won that RHS award, it’s nothing special, although people went mad to buy it after the show.
Ive cut down all the geraniums in my other borders now, looks very bare for a while. I know the pink ones will flower again, not sure about the blue ones, I don’t think they do. Nice fresh green though🙂
I have lots of the blue coloured hardy geranium Brookside, I've just cut them down to the ground. If you want I could send you down some bareroots, they'll soon put on leaves once back in the soil. PM me if you would like some. Brookside always reblooms after being chopped back btw.