Here are my Thalia-nots. I was worried as the buds looked distinctly double, which they are. But luckily a very soft yellow (not as white as the picture) which I like and which works in the space. They have some Thalia-like genes, but are categorically not Thalia. Could be worse though. They can stay.
I am much more curmudgeonly about finding a lily beetle on a fritillary yesterday. In a bed with new Martagon lilies just breaking ground
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
One clump really are Thalia. Now that was a surprise but only goes to remind me what I'm missing. I have one clump of nots that are ok. Someone said they're probably minnows. Another clump is gross squashed toilet paper. They're going. I suspect someone made a heap of random bulbs and packed them up as Thalia. There is quite a variety of nots from a variety of sources this year. I can't imagine many of us keep the packet and the receipt so there's no way to complain. A neat little scam perhaps.
Update: There's an ice follies too. Not a favourite either.
I had a yellow one with variegated leaves. I gave it away to someone who liked it. Now if there was a deep blue or red one .........
There are red ones - Vulcan, Blood Red and Blood Red Covent Garden. Chiltern seeds sell them
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
What are the chances of being able to brew up some nettle fertiliser without it ending up all over a small child? I can't shift the smell if I splash some diluted stuff on my hand so I doubt I'd be terribly popular if when a bucket full of the stuff ends up all over one of them.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
B3 said: I have one clump of nots that are ok. Someone said they're probably minnows. Another clump is gross squashed toilet paper. They're going.
I suspect someone made a heap of random bulbs and packed them up as Thalia. There is quite a variety of nots from a variety of sources this year.
I'm more annoyed by my many Sweetness-which-are-not. There are two Sweetness out of about 40, which like your Thalia just highlight why I chose them, not others. The others have 1. No scent and 2. An orange trumpet. I have no problem with a bit of orange, but not where I'd planted these. And they were planted specifically for scent. Grrr.
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
I have to admit, some of the bulbs looked a bit large but I foolishly trusted what it said on the package. I got some from Polhill and some from Shannons. None from supermarket. It's obviously an issue with the supplier. @LG_
I must have been lucky last year - my new thalia are mostly thalia .
Out of a hundred bulbs, there's just one definite impostor which is actually not too bad (it's tiny, much more dainty than it looks in my too-close pic), and a second possible impostor which hasn't produced any buds (yet), just leaves, but the leaves don't look right - they look like the leaves of my Minnow so I might pop it in with them.
Reason for grumpiness? I wish I'd ordered two or three times as many.
Please excuse the ropy-looking convolvulus - the winter's been hard on the poor thing.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
You should definitely contact them to complain / alert them, as you won't be the only one. Even if just to make sure they know their supply is dodgy. Mine were from Wilko, so cheap, but still labelled with the name. If I'd bought random I wouldn't mind, but was surprised to find those cultivars... and now wish I hadn't. Oh well.
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
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Here are my Thalia-nots. I was worried as the buds looked distinctly double, which they are. But luckily a very soft yellow (not as white as the picture) which I like and which works in the space. They have some Thalia-like genes, but are categorically not Thalia. Could be worse though. They can stay.
I am much more curmudgeonly about finding a lily beetle on a fritillary yesterday. In a bed with new Martagon lilies just breaking ground
I suspect someone made a heap of random bulbs and packed them up as Thalia. There is quite a variety of nots from a variety of sources this year. I can't imagine many of us keep the packet and the receipt so there's no way to complain. A neat little scam perhaps.
Update: There's an ice follies too. Not a favourite either.
East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham