nutcutlet - you genius! You are absolutely right. I had completely forgotten. A neighbour threw it over the fence late last year as it was a tiny poor sickly looking thing and only about 3" wide which hadn't grown at all. I put it in there thinking it would never take as I've had little campanula in the past and they've never ever grown in this garden. No matter where I had previously put them they rotted away each time. I wonder if this means it might stay the course this time. Will be interesting to see...although maybe I will have foliage and no flowers. That happens to me quite a lot with putting plants in the wrong spot sometimes. Thank you. I would never have remembered.
BUT this morning I think I have discovered one of the Astrantia Major divisions which has indeed come up. Should be in this pic.
Thanks as well franco...the previous post photo of the little mystery clump we now know were certainly not Astrantia. I have before also mistaken Astrantia shoots for geraniums. I seem to have lost the knack of recognition these days can't seem to remember where so many things are in this garden now and I'm sure in the last couple of weeks I've dug up shoots of all kinds assuming they are weeds when now I'm thinking I ought to have left things another month to be certain. Ah well. I used to write things down when I had the time to plan a bit better but last year's constant rain dampened the enthusiasm well before a couple of hot weeks set in. Excuses, excuses!
Thanks nutcutlet. In the past my efforts with campanula have only see very few flowers and then everything was either eaten or rotted away. Yes, it does look a healthy little clump at the moment so I'm hopeful...although I'm not sure if they tend to be spring only bloomers or if they will go through summer. Can't wait to see what happens next.
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@yarrow2, i dont know what your plant is, but they definitely dont like astrantia leaves to me.
It looks a bit like one of those low growing campanulas. I still can't enlarge the pic but the screen's bigger on the PC
Nothing definite, sorry
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nutcutlet - you genius! You are absolutely right. I had completely forgotten. A neighbour threw it over the fence late last year as it was a tiny poor sickly looking thing and only about 3" wide which hadn't grown at all. I put it in there thinking it would never take as I've had little campanula in the past and they've never ever grown in this garden. No matter where I had previously put them they rotted away each time. I wonder if this means it might stay the course this time. Will be interesting to see...although maybe I will have foliage and no flowers. That happens to me quite a lot with putting plants in the wrong spot sometimes. Thank you. I would never have remembered.
BUT this morning I think I have discovered one of the Astrantia Major divisions which has indeed come up. Should be in this pic.
Thanks as well franco...the previous post photo of the little mystery clump we now know were certainly not Astrantia. I have before also mistaken Astrantia shoots for geraniums. I seem to have lost the knack of recognition these days can't seem to remember where so many things are in this garden now and I'm sure in the last couple of weeks I've dug up shoots of all kinds assuming they are weeds when now I'm thinking I ought to have left things another month to be certain. Ah well. I used to write things down when I had the time to plan a bit better but last year's constant rain dampened the enthusiasm well before a couple of hot weeks set in. Excuses, excuses!
Yes, that's the astrantia.
The campanula has taken this time
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Thanks nutcutlet. In the past my efforts with campanula have only see very few flowers and then everything was either eaten or rotted away. Yes, it does look a healthy little clump at the moment so I'm hopeful...although I'm not sure if they tend to be spring only bloomers or if they will go through summer. Can't wait to see what happens next.
That sort are spring bloomers yarrow - looks like you have flower buds already
Hi Nut, I now have astrantia seedlings. Thanks
That's good to hear Gardenmaiden
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Thought I should show them in their glory!
Nice bamboogie
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