I'm a bit fed up with salvias. Amistad has upped and died after a not very cold winter. pineapple sage still waited till October to start flowering despite all the warmth here and then upped and died too. Hot Lips, which I don't like much (was a gift) is absolutely thriving. Who can recommend a good one?
I have a quandary about the hen run and would like opinions please. The hen house sits in a corner of the run and there is a 3.5m run of fence coming off each of its north west and south west corners and then slightly longer fences to the east and north. I decided the future hens deserve some pretties and perfumed and shade so have planted a white trachelospermum jasminoides on the short west facing side, a yellow and white honeysuckle on the north facing side, a creamy yellow Ghislaine de Féligonde rambling rose to the east and a soft yellow clematis Lambton Park on the south fence.
There will, if my cuttings take, be a lavender border to join all this up, all round the outside of the mesh so they can't peck it all to death. My query is, do I stay a pale and subtle or whack in a pop of colour with a Star of India clematis to scramble thru the rose and a Falstaff climbing rose for the clematis?
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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Hi everyone, blimey I don't log in for a couple of days & there is so much to catch up on. @Obelixx We thought our Salvia Amistad had pegged it to I even pulled it out & then noticed to tiny slug damaged shoots on it so I quickly replanted & surrounded it with "organic" slug pellets. It's growing away nicely now. All of you that have too much rain PLEASE SEND IT HERE we are desperate!
@Obelixx Pineapple is one of the late flowering salvias and doesn't get going until late summer early autumn which is fine in a hot country but not here unless you have a conservatory to move it into. Amistad in my garden is grown in a very sheltered corner with shade from afternoon sun and strong winds. I threw out Hot Lips as it wanted to take over the world. Most of the Gregii and Machrophilia types do well, hard to choose as so many different colours. African Skies is a favourite of mine at the moment but hard to strike from cuttings, it is a hybrid of S. Chamelaeagnea and S. Scabra - different leaves altogether than the others.
Evening all, long day, but happy. Weather has improved, windy earlier, but settled now. Still busy but we're on it (ha, ha, fingers crossed). Going to be on TV on Tuesday apparently, a British programme about relocation. They're filming someone who has started a business here and want to talk to someone who has been there, done that.....I'm going to hide in the kitchen. 😱😁🙄
Sleep well all, a rub for all your bruises and a warm fleece for those that don't like the cold @Hostafan1. 🤣
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I knew Pineapple was late but expected it to be earlier here than it was in Belgium when it only started flowering when it was time to hide it in the greenhouse. Amistad pretended to die in 2018 but snuck back, weakly, in 2019. No sign this year which is a shame as I love the colour. Hotlips isn't taking over the world but is a good doer and usually is either red or white but not both at once. Still not a favourite. The other problem is the availability of plants in local GCs. Nurseries can be a trek and a bit "standard" in their offerings.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
A bit of excitement here this morning. When the cloud lifted from our mountain, there was a layer of snow on the top. Sorry the photos aren’t very good, but you get the idea, I’m sure.
Sometimes I wonder how the eucalyptus survive up there.
I’m not sure how much gardening I’ll be doing today. 😃
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if only I could find the space ... but I have plans to remodel the ‘sunny’
bed this autumn ... 🤔
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I have a quandary about the hen run and would like opinions please. The hen house sits in a corner of the run and there is a 3.5m run of fence coming off each of its north west and south west corners and then slightly longer fences to the east and north. I decided the future hens deserve some pretties and perfumed and shade so have planted a white trachelospermum jasminoides on the short west facing side, a yellow and white honeysuckle on the north facing side, a creamy yellow Ghislaine de Féligonde rambling rose to the east and a soft yellow clematis Lambton Park on the south fence.
There will, if my cuttings take, be a lavender border to join all this up, all round the outside of the mesh so they can't peck it all to death. My query is, do I stay a pale and subtle or whack in a pop of colour with a Star of India clematis to scramble thru the rose and a Falstaff climbing rose for the clematis?
@Obelixx We thought our Salvia Amistad had pegged it to I even pulled it out & then noticed to tiny slug damaged shoots on it so I quickly replanted & surrounded it with "organic" slug pellets. It's growing away nicely now.
All of you that have too much rain PLEASE SEND IT HERE we are desperate!
Sleep well all, a rub for all your bruises and a warm fleece for those that don't like the cold @Hostafan1. 🤣
I’m not sure how much gardening I’ll be doing today. 😃
great pics @Pat E ... not so scenic here ... grey, damp and cool ... wrong sort of cool 😒
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.