@iaincd...mine will be grown in a pot for the first year or two to see if it's healthy and is able to stand up to our increasingly wet northern summers...if not, it will be whizzed.
This is Sweet Honey, picked on Sunday This is Sweet Honey today, the pink ones (first was GJ, second is unknown climber) have been replaced as they didn't last long in the vase but SH is still holding on to her petals. This is the first time she has flowered since she was planted, I love the way the colour has faded.
@newbie77 lovely Ebb Tide! I keep trying to get my hands on some Parahebe as an evergreen edging for my rose bed, but it always seems to be out of stock. The other plant I like is the compact, evergreen Euphorbia Blackbird. I have lots of evergreen shrubs for winter interest but finding little evergreen plants for in front of the roses is tricky. I guess that’s the appeal of a short evergreen hedge like box (or more likely Ilex Crenata now) but that’s a bit formal for me. Osteospermums are still in full leaf and flower here.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
@newbie77 I keep trying to get my hands on some Parahebe as an evergreen edging for my rose bed, but it always seems to be out of stock.
Exactly! At least I got helianthemum (The Bride, I also wanted Golden Queen but was out of stock) and iberis (I guess I am not the only one returning back again and again to Marlorena's threads for inspiration). Other small evergreens I have bought for edging are arabis caucasica, arenaria montana and dianthus cruentus. I also like evergreen grasses.
This is French nurseries I keep trying, @edhelka, so the whole of France must be reading Marlorena’s posts too 😆 One nursery says it will be back in stock next April, at €19 a plant - ouch!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
@Nollie Crocus wants £17 for a 2l plant + postage... no thanks. And it seems to be sold out in all cheaper decent nurseries, at least every time I check. BTW I just found out Rosaplant in Poland has one rose I really wanted that so far has been sold out in all European nurseries... 35 PLN for the rose and 120 PLN postage (that's approx. £7 + £24) It could be worth it if I buy 2 or 3 rose... I could accommodate the one, but another one or two? And after already being swamped with too much garden work?
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This is Sweet Honey today, the pink ones (first was GJ, second is unknown climber) have been replaced as they didn't last long in the vase but SH is still holding on to her petals. This is the first time she has flowered since she was planted, I love the way the colour has faded.
It is the small evergreens or any small plants that i struggle. After planting, they get lost in soil, usually growing backwards and eventually gone.
BTW I just found out Rosaplant in Poland has one rose I really wanted that so far has been sold out in all European nurseries... 35 PLN for the rose and 120 PLN postage (that's approx. £7 + £24)
https://www.farmyardnurseries.co.uk/shop/Parahebe-Snow-Clouds-M13541