garden is almost overwhelming-if you never hear from me again you'll know it was little shop of horrors all over again.
alliums here in reno are so free in seeding that every spring i pull out hundred and still there are hundreds.
sotongeoff-great pix
walking the dogs at the university today. a compendium of the most unfortunate architectural ideas of the past 60 years, yet the excellent landscaping somehow blends it all together into something pleasing. and if someday we need a museum of bad modern architecture, well there it is, complete.
the peonies that i hybridized and grew from seed will bloom in the next few days
My ceanothus also regularly shoots out from old wood so the experts obviously do not know it all. Mine is still covered in flowers at present. I will have to be even more drastic this year with its annual pruning because it has gone absolutely crazy. It's having a good go and climbing across next door's window. I was apologising to them this afternoon but they assured me that it is so pretty that they don't mind. Every year I hack it back, I never water it or feed it but it remains a monster (albeit a beautiful one).
We had a nice pub lunch with my dad today. The aussie visitors were most impressed that the pub dated from the 18th century.
@gardenfantic, yeah, it looks pretty alike but I must let you down gently, its a baby! Mine used to have upright spiky leaves and its dawned on me that perhaps age lengthens them? I also learnt recently that they self seed if you leave the flower spikes until autumn. I've always left them on by default, but don't recall seedlings yet...I can but hope!
@david spikes, so exciting to see how your peonies turn out! Advanced congratulations for your efforts.
@KG, haha, nice one about the Ceanothus and our old English pubs
@ inkadog - billsbergia nutans. Got bored with it, gave it to a friend who emigrated to France so the orphan returned! But happy to have her back, will divide and pot on when current psychedelic flowering session over.
Thanks, figrat, I lost the tag ages ago. Yours has inspired me to repot mine; it's suffering from neglect. I went through a bromeliad phase a few years ago! And then there was the grasses phase, and the succulent phase.........and on and on.
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beauty of worcester-opens double on old wood, single on new
garden is almost overwhelming-if you never hear from me again you'll know it was little shop of horrors all over again.
alliums here in reno are so free in seeding that every spring i pull out hundred and still there are hundreds.
sotongeoff-great pix
walking the dogs at the university today. a compendium of the most unfortunate architectural ideas of the past 60 years, yet the excellent landscaping somehow blends it all together into something pleasing. and if someday we need a museum of bad modern architecture, well there it is, complete.
the peonies that i hybridized and grew from seed will bloom in the next few days
will keep you posted
My ceanothus also regularly shoots out from old wood so the experts obviously do not know it all. Mine is still covered in flowers at present. I will have to be even more drastic this year with its annual pruning because it has gone absolutely crazy. It's having a good go and climbing across next door's window. I was apologising to them this afternoon but they assured me that it is so pretty that they don't mind. Every year I hack it back, I never water it or feed it but it remains a monster (albeit a beautiful one).
We had a nice pub lunch with my dad today. The aussie visitors were most impressed that the pub dated from the 18th century.
@gardenfantic, yeah, it looks pretty alike but I must let you down gently, its a baby! Mine used to have upright spiky leaves and its dawned on me that perhaps age lengthens them? I also learnt recently that they self seed if you leave the flower spikes until autumn. I've always left them on by default, but don't recall seedlings yet...I can but hope!
@david spikes, so exciting to see how your peonies turn out! Advanced congratulations for your efforts.
@KG, haha, nice one about the Ceanothus and our old English pubs
Thanks, figrat, I lost the tag ages ago. Yours has inspired me to repot mine; it's suffering from neglect. I went through a bromeliad phase a few years ago! And then there was the grasses phase, and the succulent phase.........and on and on.
@Geoff, figrat , david, great photos, so nice to see success stories.
@Wintersong, how big does a foxtail lily need to be to flower?
@wintersong.. oh right.. so how long till it flowers.. thought it would this year..