Hi @Guernsey Donkey2 thanks for your kind words. I planted it not long after moving here, so it's at least 30 years. I recall it cost £60 which was a lot of money back then for something in a 5L pot! I intended to grow it in a pot, but it didn't look right so I planted it where it is now as I couldn't think of anywhere else to plant it - and I'm very glad I did.
Your garden is way ahead of anything I've seen around here GD - my lupin leaves are about 10" tall but no sign of flower spikes yet and roses just have the buds forming. Your echiums look fantastic and very exotic.
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Everyone's flowers seem a lot further along than mine! Amazing echiums, I'm jealous. One of my neighbor's has one so I think it would be hardy here, but it would look a bit out of scale. Although maybe I can think of a spot for one...
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour".
All your spring gardens are looking lovely. I posted the snowdrops in my French garden early on in this thread, February. Then I went to England to join my partner in our Norfolk cottage. I haven't seen my French garden since because our flight to France was cancelled and the lockdown for Covid 19 started. My French house is for sale.
This is our 2nd spring in this cottage. I have been re-planting the beds and adding a new one when we've been here in the last year. There were no daffodils and hardly any flowers. So here are some before and after photos.
Long border in Spring 2019, summer and now, but in the wrong order!
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
New Laurel bed where the laurel was cut down by a tree surgeon, it was huge. Then I dug the bed, added lots of compost and added violas. Recently I bought perennials on line and have planted them and 3 clematis.
I had to re-sow grass as the laurel had shaded the lawn so much the grass died. Hoping the bed will look better next year when the perennials have filled out more.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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I planted it not long after moving here, so it's at least 30 years.
I recall it cost £60 which was a lot of money back then for something in a 5L pot!
I intended to grow it in a pot, but it didn't look right so I planted it where it is now as I couldn't think of anywhere else to plant it - and I'm very glad I did.
Your garden is way ahead of anything I've seen around here GD - my lupin leaves are about 10" tall but no sign of flower spikes yet and roses just have the buds forming.
Your echiums look fantastic and very exotic.
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Lovely colour and very envious
What is the name of the blue geranium?
I just love perennials geranium
This is our 2nd spring in this cottage. I have been re-planting the beds and adding a new one when we've been here in the last year. There were no daffodils and hardly any flowers. So here are some before and after photos.
Long border in Spring 2019, summer and now, but in the wrong order!
Last autumn
I had to re-sow grass as the laurel had shaded the lawn so much the grass died. Hoping the bed will look better next year when the perennials have filled out more.