Amazing amount of work we all put in, looking back on it... large or small, new or old...
Gardening is meant to be a healthy option, but it's done my back in a few times,.. my mother was the same, and expect you've all had your share of issues here and there.. these days I worry about infections from cuts but I hate wearing gloves... still, what with everything else right now,..
Shame why you can't grow Delphinium @Marlorena ? I am on loam / clay with more than enough rain . Either way I always recommend Aconitum when you can't grow delphiniums very easy to grow and more tolerant of various conditions and most importantly slugs, they lack the elegance of a delphinium but still not far off and you can pick which time of the year summer or autumn flowering varieties. Baptisa an ideal replacement for Lupin.
This is my Acontium Stainless Steel its only in its 2nd year, date 14th June
2nd July think I got around 6 -7 week of flowers. Acontium .N . newry is a nice blue variety for summer . A.Royal flush blue / white short variety autumn flowering with red spring leaves . Quite a lot of varieties just try not to handle them to much, they say are even poisonous to touch but I am still here .
@Fire its a Phlox - White Admiral - very easy and reliable .
Very nice @Nollie your garden come on a lot over the past couple of years, I really like your rocks with the added structure of the shrubs . You did recommend a plant to me ( or I ask about it ) but I can't for the life of me remember what its name is ? Sure it was orange / apricot with spike like flower similar to a Agastache
I only have a quarter acre @newbie77 and @Lizzie27 but that is three times what I had. It sounds small, but in it I have room for a 12 foot deep area that houses shed, summer house, greenhouse and veg bed. The next area has beds and lawn about 18×18 foot , and lastly a patio (with a raised bed) and conservatory 18×14 foot . I said to hubby I could give him 15 years of keeping up with it, now 5 years in we will see.😆
I can grow Delphiniums but they don't last longer than a year, never to be seen again.. so it seems... Aconitums I no longer grow... difference here is the wind... I would have to stake those Aconitums otherwise they would end up in the north sea... we have no shelter belt at all unfortunately..
..here's todays gruesome picture, full of interesting wildlife 'attractions'.. taken with my new camera.. I wish they would tell you that you now need a memory card to insert otherwise it doesn't work... so I had to get one separately.. ..Munstead Wood, own root... there is a spiders web barely visible, he's catching anything that drops..
Thanks for the kind comments folks, @Perki, the only thing I can think of thats spire-like and orange, but orange foliage, not flowers, is the columnar Berberis Orange Rocket, which I think you might have asked about before. Other than that I have kind of spire-ish Agastache Aurantica Tango, short and airy, front of border plant or Urugayan Firecracker, Dicliptera suberecta, which is kind of like a salvia with silver foliage and really bright orange flowers.
Despite the prolonged chill here, many of my roses are leafing up, this is Munstead Wood:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
@Nollie ..gosh you're getting a head start as usual... we shall start a new thread sooner than I thought at this rate...
..however, for those growing 'Marie Pavie', I can say it's evergreen and is my first rose to bloom, last year from mid April, and looks to be going that way again.. ..somewhat chlorotic in my conditions at the moment, but that will improve.. [my dog cocks his leg over it - too much information, sorry]...
..several buds developing but they may not hold, we shall see..
@Littlegarden I enjoyed the video, thank you.. some lovely roses to see...and huge too !.. especially liked 'Fritz Nobis'..
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Gardening is meant to be a healthy option, but it's done my back in a few times,.. my mother was the same, and expect you've all had your share of issues here and there.. these days I worry about infections from cuts but I hate wearing gloves... still, what with everything else right now,..
This is my Acontium Stainless Steel its only in its 2nd year, date 14th June
2nd July think I got around 6 -7 week of flowers.
Acontium .N . newry is a nice blue variety for summer . A.Royal flush blue / white short variety autumn flowering with red spring leaves . Quite a lot of varieties just try not to handle them to much, they say are even poisonous to touch but I am still here .
@Fire its a Phlox - White Admiral - very easy and reliable .
..here's todays gruesome picture, full of interesting wildlife 'attractions'.. taken with my new camera.. I wish they would tell you that you now need a memory card to insert otherwise it doesn't work... so I had to get one separately..
..Munstead Wood, own root... there is a spiders web barely visible, he's catching anything that drops..
Love your garden Nollie.
Mine’s less than 1/100th of an acre 😂
although I’ve got the allotment plot too which has roses this year.
Perki, you alliums are beautiful, I have planted a few white ones this autumn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?utm_campaign=245572_14th+Jan+21&utm_medium=email&utm_source=The+National+Garden+Scheme&dm_i=6Q0Z%2C59HG%2C1UAIA1%2CM74V%2C1&v=Um2n_YmyiLg&feature=youtu.be
Despite the prolonged chill here, many of my roses are leafing up, this is Munstead Wood:
..gosh you're getting a head start as usual... we shall start a new thread sooner than I thought at this rate...
..however, for those growing 'Marie Pavie', I can say it's evergreen and is my first rose to bloom, last year from mid April, and looks to be going that way again..
..somewhat chlorotic in my conditions at the moment, but that will improve.. [my dog cocks his leg over it - too much information, sorry]...
..several buds developing but they may not hold, we shall see..
@Littlegarden
I enjoyed the video, thank you.. some lovely roses to see...and huge too !.. especially liked 'Fritz Nobis'..