Ursinia anethoides -Â an impulse buy some 30 years ago when I liked the look of the seed packet, and we've grown it every year since. We love the profusion of 2.5" orange daisies atop wiry stems and ferny foliage. Amazingly you're unlikely to see it on the seed racks nowadays but we collect our own seed each year, enough to plant up several containers and give loads away.
Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
Do you start that undercover as a half hardy plant @VictorMeldrew? The RHS states it isn't very hardy [1 - 5 degrees] so they'd need a fair bit of protection here. I like the look if it though - I like a good blast of orange!
I think I've looked up U. anthemoides instead - apologies.Â
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
We just grow it as an annual bedding plant @Fairygirl. No it's not hardy here at all but it produces lots of easily harvested seeds and the odd one usually finds its way into a little cranny somewhere and comes up unaided the following spring.
It is sometimes listed as 'anthemoides' so I think you got the correct one. I've seen it referred to as 'Star of the Veldt' which gives a clue to its origins.
Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
Cheers @VictorMeldrew. Collecting seed is always the tricky thing here. By the time many plants are about to set seed, the weather is unfavourable for them. I'll keep a look out for that thoughÂ
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
My suggestion would be Aronia melanocarpa as a good choice for a deciduous garden shrub that I have found does well with very little maintenance. Nice white flowers in spring followed by fruit that I leave for the birds but I have read can be used in cooking and is a very healthy food and then towards the end of summer/start of autumn the leaves take on a very nice bright red colour.
Cheers @VictorMeldrew. Collecting seed is always the tricky thing here. By the time many plants are about to set seed, the weather is unfavourable for them. I'll keep a look out for that thoughÂ
We harvest most of our seeds in July so you should be ok.
Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
Any Panicum (Switch grass) particularly Northwind which has a very upright habit and looks like a torch during winter months with its fiery copper tones:
Any Panicum (Switch grass) particularly Northwind which has a very upright habit and looks like a torch during winter months with its fiery copper tones:
Interesting. I bought Panicum 'Prairie Skies' on impulse from my local GC last year and was really hoping to be wowed but alas I was a rather disappointed with both the impact of the flowers and the lack of any autumn colour. I'm considering digging it out and replacing it with something else. Am I being too impatient do you think? Will it come good if I give it another season?
Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
Posts
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
The RHS states it isn't very hardy [1 - 5 degrees] so they'd need a fair bit of protection here.Â
I like the look if it though - I like a good blast of orange!
I think I've looked up U. anthemoides instead - apologies.Â
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
It is sometimes listed as 'anthemoides' so I think you got the correct one. I've seen it referred to as 'Star of the Veldt' which gives a clue to its origins.
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
I'll keep a look out for that thoughÂ
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
We harvest most of our seeds in July so you should be ok.
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
https://www.hopesgrovenurseries.co.uk/shop/grasses/panicum-grasses/
Interesting. I bought Panicum 'Prairie Skies' on impulse from my local GC last year and was really hoping to be wowed but alas I was a rather disappointed with both the impact of the flowers and the lack of any autumn colour. I'm considering digging it out and replacing it with something else. Am I being too impatient do you think? Will it come good if I give it another season?
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful