Ok Gary. Thankyou. Mine suffered from leaf miners a couple of weeks ago, which I removed them leaves, and really don't want to remove anymore! The poor thing would be naked.
I'm leaving my leaves on. The plant needs leaves to build it's food. I'll clean it up in the Autumn. Several plants around it are unaffected. I think that's one of the older plants.
Yeah, exactly. She's a skinny little thing anyway. It's her first year. But she's throwing up some lovely new shoots at the moment, so she's alive and well.
@gary.. i hve just sowen some seeds for the maltese cross plant red colour sowed the orange one otehr week and they are coming through.. cant wait they are supposed to be nectar abundant and loved by bees and butterflies.. so hope they grow well and next year hopefully flowers.
can i ask.. are they easy to maintain.. any special things to be done.. say winter time etc..
@insomnia - doesn't look much wrong with that little plant - apart from lacking some sun.
@g/f - Lychis chalcedonica/Jerusalem Cross/Maltese Cross is very easy to grow and long lived. I grew mine from seed. No special Winter treatment required. It was a popular medieval plant, hence the interesting common names.
The stems are very sturdy and upright, but they have a tendency to topple over from the base. I try to grow mine up through supports. It's one of the few plants where I make an effort to put some supports in, like this...
I grow that gorgeous red lychnis with purple / blue echinops, looks wonderful together, though not for very long as the lychnis is over before the echinops gets into full stride, but for a while it would have made Christopher Lloyd's heart sing.
Gary, our strawberries have looked like that for what seems months also - I suppose they will redden if we get any sun that lasts for more than half an hour. The redcurrants are very red but I'll bet not sweet as there has been no sun to turn the starches to sugars - they'll still cook up well for jams and syrups I expect.
For once I think the North West has had the benefit of the better weather - still wet and lacking sunshine but we've had more than our fair share of the sun when it's around and no flodding.
I sowed a meadow and nursery cornlower mix this year and the flowers are up to my armpits and glorious. The 2 new beds I planted in spring have done really well too - only problem being a friend mis-labelled some lupins so I've got pink in the hot border and red in the cool. Hey ho - the best laid plans and all that.
The red lychnis has been glorious indeed and conincidentally I've planted an echinops nearby which is budding up nicely so hopefully my heart will be singing too
It's taken 5 years to get to this point and the joy and pleasure it's given this year has more than rewarded the har work and wait
There's nothing at all wrong with your camera. The first shot looks a bit dark, but that's only because there is too much white cloud in the photo, and the camera is exposing for that. If you view the image using Windows, then click on Fix along the toolbar, then you can Adjust Exposure, and make the photo lighter and brighter. Or alternatively there may be some other photo-tweaking software already on your computer. You could easily make the other pictures brighter too.
And waiting for some sunshine would help enormously.
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Ok Gary. Thankyou. Mine suffered from leaf miners a couple of weeks ago, which I removed them leaves, and really don't want to remove anymore! The poor thing would be naked.
I'm leaving my leaves on. The plant needs leaves to build it's food. I'll clean it up in the Autumn. Several plants around it are unaffected. I think that's one of the older plants.
Yeah, exactly. She's a skinny little thing anyway. It's her first year. But she's throwing up some lovely new shoots at the moment, so she's alive and well.
@gary.. i hve just sowen some seeds for the maltese cross plant red colour sowed the orange one otehr week and they are coming through.. cant wait they are supposed to be nectar abundant and loved by bees and butterflies.. so hope they grow well and next year hopefully flowers.
can i ask.. are they easy to maintain.. any special things to be done.. say winter time etc..
@insomnia - doesn't look much wrong with that little plant - apart from lacking some sun.
@g/f - Lychis chalcedonica/Jerusalem Cross/Maltese Cross is very easy to grow and long lived. I grew mine from seed. No special Winter treatment required. It was a popular medieval plant, hence the interesting common names.
The stems are very sturdy and upright, but they have a tendency to topple over from the base. I try to grow mine up through supports. It's one of the few plants where I make an effort to put some supports in, like this...
I grow that gorgeous red lychnis with purple / blue echinops, looks wonderful together, though not for very long as the lychnis is over before the echinops gets into full stride, but for a while it would have made Christopher Lloyd's heart sing.
Gary, our strawberries have looked like that for what seems months also - I suppose they will redden if we get any sun that lasts for more than half an hour. The redcurrants are very red but I'll bet not sweet as there has been no sun to turn the starches to sugars - they'll still cook up well for jams and syrups I expect.
For once I think the North West has had the benefit of the better weather - still wet and lacking sunshine but we've had more than our fair share of the sun when it's around and no flodding.
I sowed a meadow and nursery cornlower mix this year and the flowers are up to my armpits and glorious. The 2 new beds I planted in spring have done really well too - only problem being a friend mis-labelled some lupins so I've got pink in the hot border and red in the cool. Hey ho - the best laid plans and all that.
The red lychnis has been glorious indeed and conincidentally I've planted an echinops nearby which is budding up nicely so hopefully my heart will be singing too
It's taken 5 years to get to this point and the joy and pleasure it's given this year has more than rewarded the har work and wait
Really must invest in a better camera
There's nothing at all wrong with your camera. The first shot looks a bit dark, but that's only because there is too much white cloud in the photo, and the camera is exposing for that. If you view the image using Windows, then click on Fix along the toolbar, then you can Adjust Exposure, and make the photo lighter and brighter. Or alternatively there may be some other photo-tweaking software already on your computer. You could easily make the other pictures brighter too.
And waiting for some sunshine would help enormously.
I like the lawn too.
Thanx for the tips - apart from waiting for the sunshine, that's a bit hit n miss