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Chelsea wish list
Are there any plants that you saw at Chelsea that you thought I just have to get that. For me it was the Canary Island foxglove [ Isoplexus canariensis ] and I shall be tring the seeds next year.
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White foxgloves but they were on my list anyway
There was a new clematis named after Marie something Curie. A very nice double white.
http://www.thorncroftclematis.co.uk/clematis/new-2014/maria-sklodowska-curie.html
Oh and David Austin,s new pale pink roses, a climber and a bush, like I have space for any more roses..I already have 12,8 of them pale pink...
I'm definitely getting some Narcissus Sabine Hay and looking at Narcissus Avalon and a salmon pink allium I didn't get the name of.
My sister who isn't on the forum wants fuchsia maxima and everything out the French iris nursery's catalogue...
Cayeux Irises, some of them are truly amazing.
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I noticed the white foxgloves too!! - in the shade - almost glowing - can't remember which garden. Then one popped up in my garden - self sown, wrong place (not sure there's a 'right place' in our garden at the moment. But it was not so generous in its bells, but still pretty. I have some foxglove seedlings coming on for next year. And that clematis is very tempting!! I have a Marie Boisselet (excuse spelling), but I planted it next to the trachelospermum.
It sends out a couple of shoots every year, but seriously needs a new flatmate. It is a great favourite of mine, and soon I will have room to deal with it properly... The irises were lovely.
That's the one
For me it was more a case of planting combinations as I already have most of the plants I lust after given I'm now restricting myself to plants that can cope with the local climate and not keel over every winter.
I love the lysimachia beaujloais which I first saw on the Hilliers stand a few years ago and have managed to track down some seeds so will be sowing those next year with a view to doing luscious plantings of deep reds and purples like they had at one end of the Stoke-on-Trent garden and I'm planning a white flowered area for the furthest corner of my garden so more white geraniums, campanulas, foxgloves, tall daisies and so for a long season.