I have a honeysuckle supposedly planted in ideal conditions. It persists in sneaking round the corner into full baking south facing sun and going crispy. You've got a deathwish, honeysuckle. Indulge it and see if I care😡
I find plants with a deathwish very interesting. One is borage, which in my garden seeds into gravel. It's very dry and gets totally mildewed and scraggy by August. So one would ask - why on earth would you seed where you cannot live?
My fgmns have self-seeded and look like a lawn at the moment - wall to wall sprouts. By next year these plants look so scraggy, battered and miserable. I'm pretty sure that seed germinating next year will flower next year. Why bother with so many months of scrag?
@micearguers Lady of Shalott is gorgeous, lots of flowers and a lovely contrast between the orange/red buds and the flowers which pale slightly as they fade. She’s still quite young as only went in as a bare root late Spring 2020 and a few flowers last year.
Our soil stays reasonably damp (structure and due to the level of cover) but I never water my roses (anything) once established so she has coped well with the dry periods we have had. We had no rain at all in April. I do give all the roses a mulch of our own compost in winter and a Spring handful of chicken pellets but I don’t feed them anything in between.
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
Just geraniums... Although I inherited these thugs, along with Crocosmia and Spanish Bluebells (or hyancinths or a hybrid...whatever. I can't get rid of them.) Is corncockle likely to be a problem, does anyone know? It's self seeded from a pot of wildflowers I grew last year. Scabiosa purpurea is all over the place, which I don't mind except where it self seeded at the front of one of the borders. It seems all too easy to break stems off so I don't want to move it, as it's giving me such a lovely display. I'll take it out and sow seeds further back for next year and keep an eye on it coming up near the front.
re Borage, mine is already scraggy. It's full of buds though and I am loathe to deprive the bees.
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East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
Is corncockle likely to be a problem, does anyone know? It's self seeded from a pot of wildflowers I grew last year.
Scabiosa purpurea is all over the place, which I don't mind except where it self seeded at the front of one of the borders. It seems all too easy to break stems off so I don't want to move it, as it's giving me such a lovely display. I'll take it out and sow seeds further back for next year and keep an eye on it coming up near the front.
re Borage, mine is already scraggy. It's full of buds though and I am loathe to deprive the bees.