Lovely to see all these beautiful pictures after spring has had such a slow start! I've had no time to do anything in my garden but have working in other people's gardens 6 days a week at the moment.
My choisya Aztec pearl is the happiest it's ever been!
That's interesting @Simone_in_Wiltshire, I didn't know that frost in December is good for tulips! Amazing that your neighbour has had tulips since 1947. If they haven't been replaced, that must be a record for being perennial!
That's interesting @Simone_in_Wiltshire, I didn't know that frost in December is good for tulips! Amazing that your neighbour has had tulips since 1947. If they haven't been replaced, that must be a record for being perennial!
Yes, tulips like it frosty in December and don’t mind if the ground is frozen where the bulbs are. You don’t need to take tulips or daffodils out. They build new bulbs and so they get more and the old ones die after a few years. Interesting is that this garden on my walking route also has clay soil as we all have. They can survive even in clay soil.
I wish that was true. Most modern Tulips die after 1 or 2 years, although the species Tulips can be much longer lived. The reason that frost is said to be good for tulips, is that it stops the spread of Tulip fire.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Maybe, we don't wait long enough, @punkdoc. When I came back yesterday morning from "my front garden", I also took pictures of my garden. The lilac type (shown two weeks ago here) in the old bed were bought in 2016 from a garden centre
and they are still alive, not all because I took them partly out. The tulips below found their way from Amsterdam in 2018 into my garden. I planted some of them in the old bed, others into the new bed. In 2019, I can see in my pictures only a yellow/orange one. In 2020, I have next to it also the darker ones and this year, both types are still there, and they get more.
There are years when they are not great because it was too warm and too wet over winter. Then the bulbs sleep in the ground, and when the weather is right for them, they appear again. A frosty winter helps to stop the tulip fire, but we might be also only to impatient and take them out if they don't flower or the leaves don't look good.
This is my garden currently. What a difference sunshine and warmer temperatures can make.
The pot on the left is OH's peach tree like the apple tree in another pot behind, and they were bought and then left with me. I wish I could change the world, but have to accept my limitation to do it
I keep seeing this from the kitchen window and thinking “I love that”; the way the fennel has grown across the bottom of the euphorbia. It looks like a new type of plant.
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Maybe when you come Sunday next or the week after you can help me gain back a bit of control in my garden … I need to sow my runner beans 🫘 😃
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I ♥ my garden.
The reason that frost is said to be good for tulips, is that it stops the spread of Tulip fire.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
The lilac type (shown two weeks ago here) in the old bed were bought in 2016 from a garden centre and they are still alive, not all because I took them partly out.
The tulips below found their way from Amsterdam in 2018 into my garden. I planted some of them in the old bed, others into the new bed.
In 2019, I can see in my pictures only a yellow/orange one. In 2020, I have next to it also the darker ones and this year, both types are still there, and they get more.
There are years when they are not great because it was too warm and too wet over winter. Then the bulbs sleep in the ground, and when the weather is right for them, they appear again. A frosty winter helps to stop the tulip fire, but we might be also only to impatient and take them out if they don't flower or the leaves don't look good.
This is my garden currently. What a difference sunshine and warmer temperatures can make.
The pot on the left is OH's peach tree like the apple tree in another pot behind, and they were bought and then left with me. I wish I could change the world, but have to accept my limitation to do it
I ♥ my garden.