@JessicaS, great to know about them surviving and flowering again.
@Nanny Beach, I will try in my local Lidl. Nice to hear about your plants surviving. I really like the idea of giving a chance to anything that can survive. I have a side access along house and I line up whatever is marginally hardy there by wall.
@Jac19, yes they are great for autumn colours. I have tried nerine too but these do better for me.
Schizostylus was the correct botanical name, until they changed it recently @Nanny Beach although I believe there are subtle differences. It has lots of common names, which is also something that leads to lots of confusion when people ask for help too.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Great for autumn/winter indeed @Lyn. They get a bit too big and floppy here in our soil and climate, so they need to be in among other plants to avoid being flattened. I don't like the salmon-y coloured one though, which we inherited at a previous house, so I'd only ever have the white one, but they [the whites] sometimes revert so I haven't bothered with it here. It's a pity there isn't a really good , dark pink variety. I'd definitely have that
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I tried lots of winter containers/plants last year.
- The Heucheras are looking not so great now, they did look good all summer though. they were in pots and staying in pots. - Heathers were lovely in the beginning then the flowers browned and whole thing was not looking great. When I chopped the flowers up, the plant also had browned inside so chucked those in compost heap. - Variegated ivy and Skimmias are looking good. Will plant a few things around them later. - Primulas looked good in beginning then got mouldy. I had cleaned and planted those to beds. Some are surviving, some are lost. - Bellies, I think I didnt make a good choice on variety. Flowers were tiny and looked like weeds. This autumn I will buy in flower so I can choose nice big flowering ones. - Pansies , large flowered ones dwindled earlier than smaller ones. They flowered where they were in sun and got all leggy and messy in shade. Eventually I pulled them out. - Evergreen Nandina lemon and lime, enjoyed all care and sun and have grown so much that there is no space left around them to plant bedding this year. - dianthus/sweet williams sort of plants, I bought those from reduced section of B&Q, they were doing nothing in autumn/winter but looked great in spring early summer. I think they are nice for underplanting pink/purple/white roses.
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@Nanny Beach, I will try in my local Lidl. Nice to hear about your plants surviving. I really like the idea of giving a chance to anything that can survive. I have a side access along house and I line up whatever is marginally hardy there by wall.
@Jac19, yes they are great for autumn colours. I have tried nerine too but these do better for me.
It has lots of common names, which is also something that leads to lots of confusion when people ask for help too.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I don't like the salmon-y coloured one though, which we inherited at a previous house, so I'd only ever have the white one, but they [the whites] sometimes revert so I haven't bothered with it here. It's a pity there isn't a really good , dark pink variety. I'd definitely have that
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I tried lots of winter containers/plants last year.
- The Heucheras are looking not so great now, they did look good all summer though. they were in pots and staying in pots.
- Heathers were lovely in the beginning then the flowers browned and whole thing was not looking great. When I chopped the flowers up, the plant also had browned inside so chucked those in compost heap.
- Variegated ivy and Skimmias are looking good. Will plant a few things around them later.
- Primulas looked good in beginning then got mouldy. I had cleaned and planted those to beds. Some are surviving, some are lost.
- Bellies, I think I didnt make a good choice on variety. Flowers were tiny and looked like weeds. This autumn I will buy in flower so I can choose nice big flowering ones.
- Pansies , large flowered ones dwindled earlier than smaller ones. They flowered where they were in sun and got all leggy and messy in shade. Eventually I pulled them out.
- Evergreen Nandina lemon and lime, enjoyed all care and sun and have grown so much that there is no space left around them to plant bedding this year.
- dianthus/sweet williams sort of plants, I bought those from reduced section of B&Q, they were doing nothing in autumn/winter but looked great in spring early summer. I think they are nice for underplanting pink/purple/white roses.