Some photos from the garden. I’ve taken a lot of cuttings recently and hopefully they will take and survive the winter. The allium seedheads look like oversized mushrooms now.
Which types are the two pelargoniums in your second photo please? Lovely garden!
@rachelQrtJHBjb It is a sanguisorba but Lilac squirrel , its been flowering for months with new buds still coming , the growth is lax so tend to fall over anyway . I grow 3 other variety's of snaguisorba and all are good plants with interesting foliage with autumn colour.
Do you grow any of the 'red bobble' types? I tried S. 'Tanna' this year, and the bobbles were red for just a few weeks, quickly turning brown. Bit disappointed tbh. Maybe my soil is too dry?
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour".
@Devonian They are three types of angel pelargonium: the top one, which I wholeheartedly recommend is Jer’rey, bottom right is Quantock Perfection. The other pelargonium is my own unnamed hybrid.
@rachelQrtJHBjb It is a sanguisorba but Lilac squirrel , its been flowering for months with new buds still coming , the growth is lax so tend to fall over anyway . I grow 3 other variety's of snaguisorba and all are good plants with interesting foliage with autumn colour.
Do you grow any of the 'red bobble' types? I tried S. 'Tanna' this year, and the bobbles were red for just a few weeks, quickly turning brown. Bit disappointed tbh. Maybe my soil is too dry?
I do grow one called martins mulberry, thinking about it my MM didn't flower to long but but kept sending new buds up after deadheading, the individual flower probably only lasted 3 week if that , I haven't deadheaded it for a while due to other plants falling on it .
@Yviestevie Lovely planting. Lucky you living so close to Ashwood Nurseries, too. Fantastic garden centre and John Massey's private garden is a must-see.
Ah, sneaky anemones. I'm giving them away. I'm not frothingly, seethingly anti-pink. There are some heart rending pinks out there. I have a slightly coy diascia that has a gorgeous point somewhere between blackcurrrent, magenta, rapsberry and blood. I like it because the colour is so unusual and complicated to my eye. It earns it space in spades.
The inherited golden privet also really has to go. It just doesn't fit. It might free up enough space to put in a small-decent pond; at least space to hold more than one frog at a time.
This summer the garden has been unendingly frustrating - beginning to end - but I have learnt a lot - more than most years. I do find that it's nearly always true that I learn a lot more from faillures than successes. I have had to confront my misapprehensions, denseness, short cuts that don't work and bad habits.
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