@Marlorena will it be ok to plant Lavender 'Anouk' with roses on the border? Will it flower until September?! I have seen it in Lidl.. I liked the bright purple colour but I thought it'll be difficult to grow and care lavender so did not get it. Thank you in advance.
@ElbFee - It's my garden office. We just had it finished a month or go - when it was -15 in the Peak! We definitely need some blinds as it can get very hot in there (south west facing). But it's a lovely aspect and I really hope my rose arch starts to put out shoots as it'll be lovely to look at it while I'm working.
@Rojas I think September is pushing it, I don't have any photos of it in September so it couldn't have been flowering then.. it's a May-July Lavender with some later flowers in August if deadheaded.. it goes well with the main flush of roses.. I have also found it to be hardy this winter, outside in pots unprotected .. I absolutely love this 'Anouk' lavender.. I just bought another one, so I have 3 now..
@Rojas I ordered a set of plants , year before last, and one was out of stock, so they sent me a Munstead Lavender instead. I don't like Lavender, don't like the smell , so it was planted in the front garden, near the path, in the worse bit of dry stoney soil, under a silver birch. Never watered, ignored all that hot summer, and it loved it! Took off the top with shears in the Autumn, thought it would die with the intensely cold dry winter, but no its still there growing away. So don't worry about looking after Lavender, it can look after itself! 😆
@Marlorena - I had a really good french lavender which lasted a few years but obviously wasn’t fully hardy. Might get an Anouk. I did like the flowering although didn’t particularly like the scent. I find french lavender to be far stronger than types like Munstead and Hidcote and not especially pleasant.
At the allotment I sowed a pack of Johnson’s Hidcote lavender seeds, and every single one grew as an unknown French lavender!
yes there are spiders that live under the logs around the pond. They perch waiting at the water’s edge and then quickly snatch things out of the water from the edge, or sometimes run across the water itself.
I can join you @Eustace, except my daughter has now decided they are her favourite thing and has created a snail ‘home’ in the garden!!
Same here with my daughter. I have stopped planting anything that is liked by slugs snails. They are now living on whatever green they can find. This one is eating sedum.
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Oh thanks, it does look a match doesn't it.. although it was a very tiny insect..
Do you see spiders in your pond?..
..the magnificent Lavender x intermedia 'Gros Bleu'...
..at Mottisfont rose gardens, the beds are edged with 'Munstead' lavender..
I think September is pushing it, I don't have any photos of it in September so it couldn't have been flowering then.. it's a May-July Lavender with some later flowers in August if deadheaded.. it goes well with the main flush of roses.. I have also found it to be hardy this winter, outside in pots unprotected ..
I absolutely love this 'Anouk' lavender.. I just bought another one, so I have 3 now..
I ordered a set of plants , year before last, and one was out of stock, so they sent me a Munstead Lavender instead. I don't like Lavender, don't like the smell , so it was planted in the front garden, near the path, in the worse bit of dry stoney soil, under a silver birch. Never watered, ignored all that hot summer, and it loved it! Took off the top with shears in the Autumn, thought it would die with the intensely cold dry winter, but no its still there growing away. So don't worry about looking after Lavender, it can look after itself! 😆
At the allotment I sowed a pack of Johnson’s Hidcote lavender seeds, and every single one grew as an unknown French lavender!
yes there are spiders that live under the logs around the pond. They perch waiting at the water’s edge and then quickly snatch things out of the water from the edge, or sometimes run across the water itself.