i think I hate you all (sorry jealousy is so unbecoming )
Not a single flower from my one remaining pot this year. The other 4 pots didn't make it through the winter. For the last 10 years or so I have always had the most amazing displays , In fact its only got about 6 leaves on it. I was hoping it was just late - like everything else but after being in Somerset at the weekend where they are all going mad, I think it is just going to be a rubbish year for me this year.
Not to make you feel better but my white agapanthus has about 18 flower-heads-will post a picture ina few days to rub salt into the wound-and 3 weeks later neighbours is still going strong-he is on the move-I could nick it?
Jo, I have never known a year like it. Actually thinking about it my one remaining pot was nursed back to health as at the begining of the year it was looking decidily dodgy and i thought I might loose it too.
Normally I can be a bit smug about my lovely warm sheltered conditions in London and how well everything does. It has truly come back and biten me on the bum this year.
Urgh, dont even try treading on those. They get well & truely chucked over the fence onto non-maintained ground- in the hope that they find more rewarding things to munch over there rather than in my garden!
Daughter has just reminded me that the Midnight Star is hers! Hmm, since she doesnt yet have a house, let alone a garden, I think I can keep it a bit longer- phew. Anyway shall split it & down-size the pots when, & if, the time comes for her to demand it!
Wow so beautiful, I love them & would buy loads if I could only be sure which are really, truly hardy, rather than wasting my money on more that aren't! I bought an enormous pot of them from Trebah gardens one year but lost them the second winter.
Carol Klein on GW said a while ago that one type were totally hardy & one type not. When I'm faced with gorgeous pots of them in the garden centre that give very little information I never know if they are or not.
I got a lovely surpise this year when a tiny one appeared in a pot that I planted with it & lily bulbs years ago. It's never reappeared & then suddenly well over 5 years later it pops up & has one flower on! I shall ignore it & hope it thrives!
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Not to make you feel better but my white agapanthus has about 18 flower-heads-will post a picture ina few days to rub salt into the wound-and 3 weeks later neighbours is still going strong-he is on the move-I could nick it?
Jo, I have never known a year like it. Actually thinking about it my one remaining pot was nursed back to health as at the begining of the year it was looking decidily dodgy and i thought I might loose it too.
Normally I can be a bit smug about my lovely warm sheltered conditions in London and how well everything does. It has truly come back and biten me on the bum this year.
yeah but I bet I have the biggest Spanish brown slugs
But could you eat a whole one?
LMAO
trod on one the other day, it was so grim and trying to get if off the sole of my wellie was near impossible , so much slime
I found a slug the other day around 5 inches long-(sad case measured it)-it went into space.
Urgh, dont even try treading on those. They get well & truely chucked over the fence onto non-maintained ground- in the hope that they find more rewarding things to munch over there rather than in my garden!
Daughter has just reminded me that the Midnight Star is hers! Hmm, since she doesnt yet have a house, let alone a garden, I think I can keep it a bit longer- phew. Anyway shall split it & down-size the pots when, & if, the time comes for her to demand it!
My white agapanthus
I am loving the white ones.. i bought one alst year that was supposed to be white ... but it is blue.. gutted.. heres mine in the garden..
this one is to show the size of the flower head against my boy who is 6.
Wow so beautiful, I love them & would buy loads if I could only be sure which are really, truly hardy, rather than wasting my money on more that aren't! I bought an enormous pot of them from Trebah gardens one year but lost them the second winter.
Carol Klein on GW said a while ago that one type were totally hardy & one type not. When I'm faced with gorgeous pots of them in the garden centre that give very little information I never know if they are or not.
I got a lovely surpise this year when a tiny one appeared in a pot that I planted with it & lily bulbs years ago. It's never reappeared & then suddenly well over 5 years later it pops up & has one flower on! I shall ignore it & hope it thrives!