Love swathes of eranthus, one of nature's spring delights. Unfortunately they can be out and over very quickly so you have to be on the lookout and quick on your feet. Heale House near here has hillside slopes covered in them.
Hi Lyn. They're woodland plants, deciduous shade and not boggy. They grew like weeds in my previous garden but it's uphill al the way here. The soil is much stiffer here but not really clay.
The hellebores are flowering already in The Univ. of Bristol Bot. Garden. I visited last Wednesday and they were among the 18 species of flower I found in bloom.
Ooh how lovely Marion! I've got confused summer bedding geraniums still flowering- from summer 2013! done everything wrong with them as forgot all about them and been stunning all this summer! Hellebore wise my older plants are budding up, and I got 6 young plants for £20 from t&m on special offer last month, arrived this week, they are huge-can't wait for them to get going.....particularly "gold star" looks lovely in the pic-does ne-one grow that one?
H. Gold Star is one of the xericsmithii types. As such the treatment of it is slightly different to that given to x hybridus. Feed in September as they are hungry plants, but the only leaves that need removing are damaged or dead ones.
Ooh it doesn't have the leaves like the ericsmithii types; and has hybridus on the tag...... Confused may need to google now!! my mum has an ericsmithii one called shooting star but looks v. Different, I think she just trims manky leaves off in spring, but not sure she feeds it- will tell her! Thanks!
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Love swathes of eranthus, one of nature's spring delights. Unfortunately they can be out and over very quickly so you have to be on the lookout and quick on your feet. Heale House near here has hillside slopes covered in them.
Lovely things. It took 3 tries to get them established but worth the effort.
In the sticks near Peterborough
What sort of conditions do those aconites like, I have never tried them.
Hi Lyn. They're woodland plants, deciduous shade and not boggy. They grew like weeds in my previous garden but it's uphill al the way here. The soil is much stiffer here but not really clay.
In the sticks near Peterborough
And buy them in the green or find someone with freshly dug bulbs to spare. The ones sold as dried bulbs in G/C's are effectively dead.
And there are variations of them too, doubles, oranges and so on, all rather expensive though.
The hellebores are flowering already in The Univ. of Bristol Bot. Garden. I visited last Wednesday and they were among the 18 species of flower I found in bloom.
Ooh how lovely Marion! I've got confused summer bedding geraniums still flowering- from summer 2013! done everything wrong with them as forgot all about them and been stunning all this summer! Hellebore wise my older plants are budding up, and I got 6 young plants for £20 from t&m on special offer last month, arrived this week, they are huge-can't wait for them to get going.....particularly "gold star" looks lovely in the pic-does ne-one grow that one?
H. Gold Star is one of the xericsmithii types. As such the treatment of it is slightly different to that given to x hybridus. Feed in September as they are hungry plants, but the only leaves that need removing are damaged or dead ones.
Ooh it doesn't have the leaves like the ericsmithii types; and has hybridus on the tag...... Confused may need to google now!! my mum has an ericsmithii one called shooting star but looks v. Different, I think she just trims manky leaves off in spring, but not sure she feeds it- will tell her! Thanks!