@VictorMeldrew your flowers are gorgeous, that's what I'm aiming for in my new jewel bed. But no grasses, just don't understand the appeal.
Thanks BL. Wouldn't it be boring if we all liked the same things though? I think my appreciation of grasses started with my first big assignment at Uni where we were tasked with putting together a collection of pressed (and correctly identified) native grasses. For years after I was a real bore when out & about ..... "Oooh look there's some Holcus lanatus just behind that patch of Dactylis glomerata" ..... But it still took many years before I wanted to cultivate the ornamental ones. Now I find many of them more interesting than herbaceous perennials.
Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
beautiful! how are things holding up with the heat
Not quite Texas weather here in Northern Ireland. 31 degrees which is considerably cooler than parts of mainland UK with a nice breeze and unlikely to get any hotter. The record temperature for here was 31.3 degrees or so and that did not get broken today.
Our wee country is still green and pleasant as we had a fairly wet end of June, early July.
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Lilies are out and now the right way up. Looking very good @Zenjeff
Thanks BL. Wouldn't it be boring if we all liked the same things though? I think my appreciation of grasses started with my first big assignment at Uni where we were tasked with putting together a collection of pressed (and correctly identified) native grasses. For years after I was a real bore when out & about ..... "Oooh look there's some Holcus lanatus just behind that patch of Dactylis glomerata" ..... But it still took many years before I wanted to cultivate the ornamental ones. Now I find many of them more interesting than herbaceous perennials.
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
Our wee country is still green and pleasant as we had a fairly wet end of June, early July.
It has been 39° here in SW France but the forecast is cooler for tomorrow thank goodness.
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I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful