My primroses seem to like wet and dry soil. The biggest clumps are right below an old apple tree in a bed which is very dry
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
Hard to tell from those photos. True Oxlips grow from one side of the stem and all face much the same way, whereas False Oxlips are more like polyanthus and grow in a multi-directional ‘tuft’.
There were a lot in a poplar plantation just outside my garden in Belgium. What on earth do they grow poplars poplars for? Clogs, yes, but more surely?
The direction mine are facing is confused by the shade behind.
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."
Hard to tell from those photos. True Oxlips grow from one side of the stem and all face much the same way, whereas False Oxlips are more like polyanthus and grow in a multi-directional ‘tuft’.
Is that why mine on the previous page are facing one direction? I thought it was like several other plants and trees, they all face the same way because of the wind. I have these, going to seed there so I can harvest and grow more.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
A pity all my old candelabra pics are on 35mm transparencies. The projector went bang, and now I can't view them. Technolgy obsolescence.
Can anyone recommend a digitiser that would allow me to slowly work through my 100's of trannies? Therre are lots on Amazon, but I don't have any photographer friends who could give me a recommendation.
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."
Lyn, thank you. I had an Epson flatbed scanner/copier/printer that could, slowly and with fiddling, scan transparencies. It survived 2 computer changes but not my last software update. I now have a new device that can ony print and copy.
I have found a thread for photographers on " the potting shed". I will reask my question there.
PS. Well, I though I had found a suitable thread. But I went to do a copy-&-paste and now I have lost it.
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."
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East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The direction mine are facing is confused by the shade behind.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Dappled shade and damp - Devon damp - is the secret.
In Surrey, they seem to have more than survived the 2022 drought.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
I have these, going to seed there so I can harvest and grow more.
Can anyone recommend a digitiser that would allow me to slowly work through my 100's of trannies? Therre are lots on Amazon, but I don't have any photographer friends who could give me a recommendation.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Epson-Perfection-V600-Photo-Scanner/dp/B002TAA3MY/ref=dp_prsubs_1?pd_rd_w=8BdX5&content-id=amzn1.sym.d7eefb39-b21e-4c2c-9e42-14db94912ddb&pf_rd_p=d7eefb39-b21e-4c2c-9e42-14db94912ddb&pf_rd_r=S8BZXX4CJH9MW84BDW4R&pd_rd_wg=zXZZy&pd_rd_r=294d7956-368b-4711-ba71-10cbb0e55a57&pd_rd_i=B002TAA3MY&psc=1
I have found a thread for photographers on " the potting shed". I will reask my question there.
PS. Well, I though I had found a suitable thread. But I went to do a copy-&-paste and now I have lost it.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."