I too used to buy a lot of bedding plants.....now I prefer to try to grow from seed. I love open daisy type flowers. These days I grow/plant with pollinators in mind. One of the few flowers I have never bought are begonia, no plans to purchase in the future......
@Fire, I totally agree with you about trying to recreate something exotic when living in the suburbs. It just jars, in my view.
Exactly the same here, equally jars in my rural setting. The first thing I did when I bought my house was take the chainsaw to the palm trees - leave them on the beach please. It is not a Mediterranean climate here, but everyone, including the locals, think it is for some reason.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I never liked gardening when I was growing up or indeed when raising the two kids. However once the kids were of an age my thoughts did turn to gardening. At first my garden was north facing so would only grow shade loving plants but I finally inherited my parents house and my mum was a keen garden. I just regret that I was never interested in it when she was alive. I used to just want white and green and positively loathed pink, now half my garden is a pink border. Just a normal sized urban garden, but I love plants and can’t get enough different ones. I have a pink border, a blue, white and yellow one, a yellow and purple one and last year went to town on all shades of orange. I also had a spectacular display of begonias (sorry guys) again mainly orange
Thank you @BenCotto ... that's an old photo on my phone and I was still in bed having my first coffee when I posted that ... totally forgot that it needed 'revolving'. You're a gent
It's also a photo of that plant very late in the season ... now I'm on my laptop I might be able to find a better one ...
Edited to say ... searched and searched ... no luck ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I’ve been gardening for 3 years.. I started off with fragrant roses and that only.. at the time I did not even wish to consider any other plants that do not have w scent to match that of my roses..
3 years down to line I’ve ventured out to try a lot more plants - including the non or only mildly scented ones such as spring bulbs.. and I’m very pleased I’ve done so. It extends the period of interests in my garden massively and it was the right decision.
Fragrant roses still occupies the prime spot in my heart 3 years down the line but I’ve opened up to more varieties of flowers - and I’ve even started growing some crops since I got my key to an allotment plot..!
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It's also a photo of that plant very late in the season ... now I'm on my laptop I might be able to find a better one ...
Edited to say ... searched and searched ... no luck ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
3 years down to line I’ve ventured out to try a lot more plants - including the non or only mildly scented ones such as spring bulbs.. and I’m very pleased I’ve done so. It extends the period of interests in my garden massively and it was the right decision.