Lovely companion plant lists everyone, I haven’t made my main perennial order yet, have lots of gaps to fill in every bed, so doubtless will go a bit mad. I usually order 9cm pots in early Feb, pot/grow on and plant out in April/May. Helenium Short ‘n Sassy is on my list, more penstemons, achillea, hardy geraniums, agastache beelicious purple and salvia mainacht. I’m sure a few others will slip in too...
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
It's not a term generally used like Black spot for instance but refers to the dying of the rose stems as a result of bacteria and disease. It shows as discoloration on the stems.
...basal stem rot is only a risk on heavy wet soils with poor drainage... drainage is always the key...
...this is what you call ''packing them in'' I think... Aquilegia 'Yellow Queen' at bottom of picture... I'm replacing these as they don't last forever unfortunately.. Scabious 'Perfecta Blue'... I've had Butterfly Blue before, but can't remember how it compares..
That’s the sort of style I’m aiming for, @Marlorena. I’ve had Perfecta scabious in my last garden, but the stems of mine grew very tall and floppy. Maybe the soil was too rich for them... I’ve ordered a dwarf form of knautia that I hope will do well.
I’ve got scabious ‘butterfly blue’ and ‘blue note’. Butterfly blue flowered over quite a long period - I bought it from Morrison’s.
I’ve got some aquilegia seeds which hopefully will grow into yellow ones similar to the ones in your photo Marlorena. I picked up a seed head back in autumn that had come from some like that. Will see what they turn into.
Ive also got some Giant Scabious seeds but I won’t be planting those in the garden!
..best of luck with the seeds.. it's all good fun, just I prefer named varieties these days, so I sort of splash out on that.. ... as it's winter, whilst rummaging around with some old photos, I found a few pics which might be of interest as we're talking about this sort of thing..
..this is Helenium 'Moerheim Beauty'.. long flowering, but a bit too orange/amber for my taste.. but a good do-er.. ..so I switched to Helenium 'Rubinzwerg'... ..for a super spreading Geranium, this is 'Mavis Simpson'.. just one small plant 3 years old, it dies back to a crown in winter, and takes off in summer.. obviously needs careful placing.. 'Russell Prichard' is much more compact and a deeper colour.. Pennisetum orientale is long flowering from late June.. next to Gaura 'Cherry Brandy'.. Gaura 'Pink Dwarf' as sold by Secret Garden is very similar.. 'Passionate Pink' and 'Passionate Blush' are a bit taller.. I've had both of those.. ..same Gaura with Pennisetum, rose Gertrude Jekyll, Geranium Rozanne and Anthemis.. fuzzy picture, zoomed in.. ..for a long blooming white rose, where Iceberg gets black spot, this one is totally clean, just very thorny and coarse.. 'Diamond' ['Diamant'] by Kordes roses.. constantly in flower from mid June..
My most favourite scabious is inherited, I think it is the basic species Scabious Ochroleuca (happy to be corrected if not). This only flowers in late summer (mid July - September) but with masses of flowers. It is a big plant but the stems are airy. It is absolutely loved by bees, probably the most bee-friendly plant in my garden. I would never buy it because of its cream colour but I am very happy to have it.
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...this is what you call ''packing them in'' I think...
Aquilegia 'Yellow Queen' at bottom of picture... I'm replacing these as they don't last forever unfortunately..
Scabious 'Perfecta Blue'... I've had Butterfly Blue before, but can't remember how it compares..
Ive also got some Giant Scabious seeds but I won’t be planting those in the garden!
Not planning to do any underplanting in this garden until I get control over creeping buttercup and Cinquefoil
... as it's winter, whilst rummaging around with some old photos, I found a few pics which might be of interest as we're talking about this sort of thing..
..this is Helenium 'Moerheim Beauty'.. long flowering, but a bit too orange/amber for my taste.. but a good do-er..
..so I switched to Helenium 'Rubinzwerg'...
..for a super spreading Geranium, this is 'Mavis Simpson'.. just one small plant 3 years old, it dies back to a crown in winter, and takes off in summer.. obviously needs careful placing.. 'Russell Prichard' is much more compact and a deeper colour..
Pennisetum orientale is long flowering from late June.. next to Gaura 'Cherry Brandy'.. Gaura 'Pink Dwarf' as sold by Secret Garden is very similar.. 'Passionate Pink' and 'Passionate Blush' are a bit taller.. I've had both of those..
..same Gaura with Pennisetum, rose Gertrude Jekyll, Geranium Rozanne and Anthemis.. fuzzy picture, zoomed in..
..for a long blooming white rose, where Iceberg gets black spot, this one is totally clean, just very thorny and coarse.. 'Diamond' ['Diamant'] by Kordes roses.. constantly in flower from mid June..
..well, that gave me something to do...
@edhelka, oh my, it is so calm and lovely. I could spend hours sitting there looking at it.