@Geoff, I have an identical lily called Vesuvius, if by chance it is also your variety and your Lupins are stunning! Such a pretty pink! I still don't have Lupins in my garden even though they were in the bargain bin at GC, I couldn't decide a colour but yours are perfect!
WS-don't know the name of the lily-the lupin was one I bought a few years back from someone selling plants in their garden-it was going for the chop last year because of the white-fly-must have heard me and decided to behave in its new spot.
Have had a sausage sandwich on the back of your praise on photo.
Geoff, love the lupins---I have pink ones flowering also, but the ones I grew from seed will probably not flower this year--so no purple ones, alas. How big were yours when you split them?
Geoff, mine are only in their second year-with 3 large blooms, so I guess it will be a while before they need splitting.
David Spikes, that delphinium flower is an astoundingly intense colour. Mine haven't bloomed yet; here everything is waiting for warmth. But the bumper crop of foxgloves is beginning. Should be quite a show.
After picking up 4 X 50p boxed bargains from the GC back in...March, I have nurtured the Rudbeckia and Astrantia into leaf and both are doing well and whilst the Anemone pushed up some tiny shoots in the early days, it has yet to sustain life, and neither did my single-bud baby hosta show even the remotest interest in life outside the box.
I relegated both drab specimens to the no more watering section of my windowsill except, shockingly, after all this time, the hosta is breaking bud! How amazing plants are? And how impatient I am?
So, 3 out of 4 @50p bargains are alive! How remarkable.
Wintersong, is that a Bear's Britches in the second photo from the other day? And if so, do they need a lot of sun? I have two--one is variegated- but I suspect they are in the wrong spot-both are shaded for the most part.
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Have planted up more wall baskets and netted the fruit bushes
The first lily has flowered
and this lupin moved moved earlier in the year and is the result of splitting roots and replanting-am very pleased with and no blessed white-fly!!
@Geoff, I have an identical lily called Vesuvius, if by chance it is also your variety and your Lupins are stunning! Such a pretty pink! I still don't have Lupins in my garden even though they were in the bargain bin at GC, I couldn't decide a colour but yours are perfect!
@Geoff, P.S. Perfect focus
WS-don't know the name of the lily-the lupin was one I bought a few years back from someone selling plants in their garden-it was going for the chop last year because of the white-fly-must have heard me and decided to behave in its new spot.
Have had a sausage sandwich on the back of your praise on photo.
@Geoff, lol
Geoff, love the lupins---I have pink ones flowering also, but the ones I grew from seed will probably not flower this year--so no purple ones, alas. How big were yours when you split them?
Inkadog-about 2 ft X 2 ft-I dug it up-pulled it to pieces and just planted the roots around March this year-that is the result
Geoff, mine are only in their second year-with 3 large blooms, so I guess it will be a while before they need splitting.
David Spikes, that delphinium flower is an astoundingly intense colour. Mine haven't bloomed yet; here everything is waiting for warmth. But the bumper crop of foxgloves is beginning. Should be quite a show.
Well I never...plants never fail to surprise me!
After picking up 4 X 50p boxed bargains from the GC back in...March, I have nurtured the Rudbeckia and Astrantia into leaf and both are doing well and whilst the Anemone pushed up some tiny shoots in the early days, it has yet to sustain life, and neither did my single-bud baby hosta show even the remotest interest in life outside the box.
I relegated both drab specimens to the no more watering section of my windowsill except, shockingly, after all this time, the hosta is breaking bud! How amazing plants are? And how impatient I am?
So, 3 out of 4 @50p bargains are alive! How remarkable.
Wintersong, is that a Bear's Britches in the second photo from the other day? And if so, do they need a lot of sun? I have two--one is variegated- but I suspect they are in the wrong spot-both are shaded for the most part.