@Lyn ok so can the red campions be potted and pretty much left to their own devices? Should I water them when I water my other flowers or leave them to it? 🤔
If they're in pots you’ll need to water them, personally I’d put them down the very end of the garden, let the bees have them and as soon as the flowers start to die off, bin them, they’ll come up everywhere if you don’t. They live along the road verges whatever the weather, wet or dry, so don’t need any fussing. Bit like dandelions, prolific breeders.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
I do, but not ones that take over, I’ve got Veronica, agastache, salvias, foxgloves delphiniums, buddleia,, lots of others as well, the only useless plants I have are hydrangeas, they’re no good for bees.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
That sounds lovely I've got lots of foxgloves too! I wouldn't mind some salvia! I love the look of hydrangeas but whenever I have them my dog eats them and it gives him a funny tummy! He's such a dopey bugger lol! 😀
campions are wild flowers, why would you need to pot them on.As Alan Titchmarch says a weed is just a flower in the wrong place, I have a thing with ******* dandilions and brambles spreading from next door
Never had a dog eating the hydrangeas, but when I had free range chickens they absolutely loved fuchsias and stripped the bushes for as high as the could reach.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
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You can also use old compost from last year's pots and plantings @Hanyhair. I do that for big pots too.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
They live along the road verges whatever the weather, wet or dry, so don’t need any fussing. Bit like dandelions, prolific breeders.