Oh bless you @GardenerSuze that’s kind of you … but it works both ways .., I’ve received so much help, advice and friendship from posters here … what comes around goes around 😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
still here @philippasmith2, glad the plants are doing well. So much time. i looked at my profile to see when I joined, it says November -1. Unfortunately it doesn't say which year But it's a lot
I was out of the UK until 2012 so I think I joined the forum in 2013. I reckon you sent me the seeds in 2016 - just a couple of years before the FB's finally drove us out of that house. One part of my present garden ( leaving aside the brambles and vinca ) is known as Nut's Corner - your plants but probably just as much to do with my state of mind these days
@Heather Reed I was just returning to your comments on gardening books being confusing. Like you I have read many different ones over the years.
I have read and reread just one sentence in some of Christopher Lloyds older books which have very few photos. Rather than a book to read and enjoy it can be puzzling, the latin names of a plant that you cannot visualise doesn't help. The positive side is it becomes a reference book, that you can return to in the future.
365 Days Of Colour by Nick Bailey is an interesting book for colour all year round. I have borrowed it from the library.
There are so many plants to choose from, it can be overwhelming. I try to remember that we are very lucky in the UK to be able to grow a diverse of variety plants.
One book I return to is Dan Pearson's Natural Selection no photos but I do feel I have got so much from it. A differnt way to garden. Suze
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
@GardenerSuze than you for the recommends, we are fortunate as you say but my tastes are more driven to the tropicals which the U.K. climate isn’t the best suited place to try and grow a great deal of them, I have a musa, Tetrapanax papyrifer, lots of bamboos - an Indian bean tree, a brown turkey fig, fatsias … a couple of gunnera which never seem to improve on size despite being in bog conditions…I grow lots of four o clock flower, dahlia and ginger (densiflorum) rudbeckias, giant Mexican hyssop (bees love them) lots of innulas and now I have alot of gaps to fill when I have finished dug the bodies out of the 7 fatalities I had… I’ve now got no phormiums or PALMS or fan palm … might put a giant green house over the whole garden then I can grow everything ha!
@Heather Reed My knowledge of tropicals is very limited. I do love Catalpa bignonioides, there is one growing nearby the flowers are stunning. Last summer it really suffered due to drought as did many other trees. Mexican hyssop is a plant I rarely see growing locally it is short lived which may be why.
Have you considered Miscanthus Kliene fontane it is hardy, it's height might give a tropical feel. Photo loaded sideways[ sorry that is me] Phormium tricolour behind.
I have a south west corner in my garden where I grow Melianthus major very sheltered by a wall. It has been hit by the weather but I think it will survive. I do cover with a cloche in cold winters.It is the only place in the garden that it will grow, micro climate is the key.
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
Maybe a rheum would work. They look tropical but are very hardy and you can get some really nice coloured ones with amazing leaf shape. I think they look like a more refined, less monstrous, gunnera. Rodgersia are fairly similar and you can get a nice bronze version. The only thing they won't like is really dry ground but they both do fine on our free draining, poor, sandy soil here al though they suffered a bit last summer.
Palms, schmalms ... Whatever happened to the thread?
Apart from the friendly, welcoming, helpful, polite chatter. you've lost your way. And I see the "R" word used again too hastily. I'm glad it wasn't aimed at me this time.
btw: It was the weather that killed the cordyiine palm. Or at least severely maimed it, time will tell.
location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand. "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
@GardenerSuze ahh my poor bicolour I ‘had’ one of those 😔 too I have a melainthus major also but it’s babied in a large pot and brought in the greenhouse for protection each year… the miscanthus though I have one but I know it’s not that one you picture, it was already in situ when we got here, it has zebra leaves and Around September time it tired to flower little purple sprays … my Indian bran tree has flowered a couple of times for me but it’s not guaranteed so it’s a nice surprise when it does 😃
I always tried to get the echium pininana to grow for me, it’s just not the place for them here, leaves it all I kept achieving but down south they grow like weeds! I used to live in cornwall so have had the best of both worlds …
have have a huge clump of voodoo lily in the greenhouse which absolutely stinks the surrounding gardens and my own out for each subsequent flower that opens it adds a day on 😂 beautiful to see but truely disgusting
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I have read and reread just one sentence in some of Christopher Lloyds older books which have very few photos. Rather than a book to read and enjoy it can be puzzling, the latin names of a plant that you cannot visualise doesn't help. The positive side is it becomes a reference book, that you can return to in the future.
365 Days Of Colour by Nick Bailey is an interesting book for colour all year round. I have borrowed it from the library.
There are so many plants to choose from, it can be overwhelming. I try to remember that we are very lucky in the UK to be able to grow a diverse of variety plants.
One book I return to is Dan Pearson's Natural Selection no photos but I do feel I have got so much from it. A differnt way to garden. Suze
and now I have alot of gaps to fill when I have finished dug the bodies out of the 7 fatalities I had… I’ve now got no phormiums or PALMS or fan palm …
might put a giant green house over the whole garden then I can grow everything ha!
I ♥ my garden.
Mexican hyssop is a plant I rarely see growing locally it is short lived which may be why.
Have you considered Miscanthus Kliene fontane it is hardy, it's height might give a tropical feel. Photo loaded sideways[ sorry that is me] Phormium tricolour behind.
I have a south west corner in my garden where I grow Melianthus major very sheltered by a wall. It has been hit by the weather but I think it will survive. I do cover with a cloche in cold winters.It is the only place in the garden that it will grow, micro climate is the key.
Apart from the friendly, welcoming, helpful, polite chatter. you've lost your way. And I see the "R" word used again too hastily. I'm glad it wasn't aimed at me this time.
btw: It was the weather that killed the cordyiine palm. Or at least severely maimed it, time will tell.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
my Indian bran tree has flowered a couple of times for me but it’s not guaranteed so it’s a nice surprise when it does 😃
I always tried to get the echium pininana to grow for me, it’s just not the place for them here, leaves it all I kept achieving but down south they grow like weeds! I used to live in cornwall so have had the best of both worlds …
have have a huge clump of voodoo lily in the greenhouse which absolutely stinks the surrounding gardens and my own out for each subsequent flower that opens it adds a day on 😂 beautiful to see but truely disgusting