Now I have a new laptop I have access to photos again, but I can't find photos of my Coreopsis or Catmints! I like Crocosmia Emily McKenzie but it didn't like my old garden and I haven't planted any here. But does it count? Not really a hardy perennial, it's a corm. If it counts then I can post Cyclamen Coum in my Norfolk garden. I'll post Achillea from Norfolk too, a bit late. My French garden is under a year old, but I've been busy digging beds from a large rectangle of grass. To explain, my 2nd OH lives in Norfolk, I live in France, we met in France though. We now live in both but Covid messed it up quite a bit. His family in UK, mine in France.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Tall Delphiniums don't last long here as I'm not one to keep staking them, and they get demolished, not only by slugs, but this one has been self supporting, and surprisingly left alone, so I only grow this..
DELPHINIUM belladonna 'Casablanca'
I was so excited to plant this, only to find it wasn't reliably hardy. I think it's now been superseded, including the name..
DIGIPLEXIS illumination 'Raspberry Improved'..
Digitalis are indispensable for most people I should think. My favourite strains are.. Camelot, Excelsior, Dalmatian and Giant Spotted, but I reserve the best for .. DIGITALIS purpurea 'Alba'... it just goes with anything, especially roses though.
those with Illumination varieties.. I know they are perennials.. incidentally I placed an order earlier today... came back and found more pics here.. question is, do they flower in their first year? supposed to come in 9cm pots... and do they do well in pots? Hate losing most of my perennials when I move...
@cooldoc Last year was my first for the Digiplex and they flowered well. I cut them back and they flowered again, though the flush was much smaller. Feeding may well have helped boost later flushes. I grow my foxgloves in pots to reduce snail and slug damage, which seems to work. I got mine from a GC in three litre pots and they flowered right off the bat. The range mixes well together - apricots, rusts and pinks. There is quite a large range, but you might have to hunt about online to find people who stock all of them.
Two of mine died right back and I will be mighty peeved if they don't return as they were expensive. Prodding about in the roots, they seem firm, so I currently prefer to think of them as snoozing. M says she has lost some over winter before now in East Anglian.
I enjoyed them very much with thalictrum, borage and hollyhocks. I don't usually do much apricot or pink as one of the main colours of my garden is red. They can be hard to match. A Year of Living Danergously. Lol.
I don’t have any digitalis but have just got got a few ‘Goldcrest’ to try in a shady border. I really wanted a digiplexis - that’s a lovely one @Fire and would’ve been perfect, but couldn’t find any over here. They would doubtless succumb to my severe winter frosts anyway, I tell myself.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
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Encouraged by a lack of local cat interest, I also recently got ‘Kit Kat’
No problem with out of sequence or not totally applicable - all good..
DELPHINIUM belladonna 'Casablanca'
I was so excited to plant this, only to find it wasn't reliably hardy. I think it's now been superseded, including the name..
DIGIPLEXIS illumination 'Raspberry Improved'..
Digitalis are indispensable for most people I should think. My favourite strains are.. Camelot, Excelsior, Dalmatian and Giant Spotted, but I reserve the best for ..
DIGITALIS purpurea 'Alba'... it just goes with anything, especially roses though.