Yes!! Was looking at the picture I took for the magnolia thread I started, and thought, must rescue the prostrate daffs, and have I not deadheaded the daffs behind, but it is actually some orange tulips - just looks like gone over daffs. I think a 'flowers for the house' bed is a really good idea.
1 of something is fine for division later, if in a hurry then 3 or 5 being impatient.... 2 and 4 are just wrong and would irritate me...
...to distract from a bitty border, a large exuberant flowering plant will take the eye off it... from July onwards something like Lavatera olbia rosea.... no one will notice if you've got one of this, or that...
I bought a dicentra today, I didn't mean to and I even had a chat with myself on the way across the carpark," NO ACCIDENTAL PURCHASES, just looking to see how much a pot of snakeshead are". Oh and a little pitcher plant, one of the short chubby ones, although I don't think that's their latin name.
Annuals aren't necessarily gaudy, and white cosmos inserted where needed into borders will connect and unify beautifully. White or blue love in the mist is a joy, and. There is a great cream nasturtium which hides a multitude and climbs a bit too. The little trailing lobelia will fill edges and large planters and last way into the autumn the way only a few perennials do.
yes, , my flower beds do look bitty, definitely. But I think this goes deep....a bit afraid to follow too far. Avariciousness anybody? Must have one of those? What about the rest of my life? lack of discipline? Gardening tells a lot about a person.
Busy bee, I am thinking if planting some tulip bulbs on my veg patch so I can cut them next year, can't really see it for the house and at the moment nothing is growing there so would be ideal at this time of year. I agree , I couldn't bear to cut mine down and was gutted when one broke the other day I also have some gladioli left that I haven't planted in the borders so I was wondering whether to sneak them into the veg patch too and I already have some sweet peas in the veg patch around the edge
OL, my granddad always had a row each of sweet peas, gladi's and spray chrysanths in the veg garden for cut flowers for my nana, I think he was a bit of an old romantic on the sly.
I think gladioli are enjoying a bit of a renaissance at the moment. I went to see Dame Edna in Manchester years ago, and remember watching her hurling them out at the end of the show. I grew them years ago, but haven't for ages - there was a thought that they were a bit brash and showy. However, a friend bought me a huge bunch of about 10 red ones and 10 white ones last summer, on coming to lunch, and they were spectacular - really enjoyed them. Then foster daughter picked some white ones fringed with blue in the garden centre and I felt that they were actually quite subtle. So we shall give them a go!!
I love Gladioli, I planted around a dozen a couple of years ago but only two came up so am not going to do them again. They looked strange since they were in two groups and it was 1 of each group! I cut them and brought them inside.
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I'm like that with garden flowers Busy - only bring them in for vases if they are casualties of the wind !
Yes!! Was looking at the picture I took for the magnolia thread I started, and thought, must rescue the prostrate daffs, and have I not deadheaded the daffs behind, but it is actually some orange tulips - just looks like gone over daffs. I think a 'flowers for the house' bed is a really good idea.
1 of something is fine for division later, if in a hurry then 3 or 5 being impatient.... 2 and 4 are just wrong and would irritate me...
...to distract from a bitty border, a large exuberant flowering plant will take the eye off it... from July onwards something like Lavatera olbia rosea.... no one will notice if you've got one of this, or that...
I bought a dicentra today, I didn't mean to and I even had a chat with myself on the way across the carpark," NO ACCIDENTAL PURCHASES, just looking to see how much a pot of snakeshead are". Oh and a little pitcher plant, one of the short chubby ones, although I don't think that's their latin name.
No, that's 'shortus, chubbius onesimus' in Latin.
Annuals aren't necessarily gaudy, and white cosmos inserted where needed into borders will connect and unify beautifully. White or blue love in the mist is a joy, and. There is a great cream nasturtium which hides a multitude and climbs a bit too. The little trailing lobelia will fill edges and large planters and last way into the autumn the way only a few perennials do.
yes, , my flower beds do look bitty, definitely. But I think this goes deep....a bit afraid to follow too far. Avariciousness anybody? Must have one of those? What about the rest of my life? lack of discipline? Gardening tells a lot about a person.
Busy bee, I am thinking if planting some tulip bulbs on my veg patch so I can cut them next year, can't really see it for the house and at the moment nothing is growing there so would be ideal at this time of year. I agree , I couldn't bear to cut mine down and was gutted when one broke the other day
I also have some gladioli left that I haven't planted in the borders so I was wondering whether to sneak them into the veg patch too and I already have some sweet peas in the veg patch around the edge 
OL, my granddad always had a row each of sweet peas, gladi's and spray chrysanths in the veg garden for cut flowers for my nana, I think he was a bit of an old romantic on the sly.
I think gladioli are enjoying a bit of a renaissance at the moment. I went to see Dame Edna in Manchester years ago, and remember watching her hurling them out at the end of the show. I grew them years ago, but haven't for ages - there was a thought that they were a bit brash and showy. However, a friend bought me a huge bunch of about 10 red ones and 10 white ones last summer, on coming to lunch, and they were spectacular - really enjoyed them. Then foster daughter picked some white ones fringed with blue in the garden centre and I felt that they were actually quite subtle. So we shall give them a go!!
I love Gladioli, I planted around a dozen a couple of years ago but only two came up so am not going to do them again. They looked strange since they were in two groups and it was 1 of each group! I cut them and brought them inside.