Lunaria - sounds like a good challenge! Always good to have knowledgeable family to help. Always one plant that ends up over running the garden - at least Crocosmia is pretty - my garden is becoming over run with Ivy in certain places. Trying to create an alpine bed which is over run with ivy is going to be another challenge for me and OH to sort too. Hopefully persistence will pay off!!
I think I am a hoplelessly unrescueable?, weak willed, plantaholic and rescuer. I cannot resist a bargain and rarely pay full price for my plants. Down here in Cornwall I am able to find really unusual plants in the reduced bin, and if you know your leaves, so many perfectly good plants are reduced as soon as the flowers have gone over. useful when the label is missing.
Last year I bought my sister a lovely 4ft Tracalospermum jasminoides for £2.99. Uusual price around £35.00, depending on the GC. I brought it home, repotted it, unravelled the stems, rewrapped them around new canes in a fan formation and hey presto, a lovely plant already forming flower buds.
Verdun, as Bristol is Green Capital of Europe this year I am doing my best to help through not buying anything for the garden that needs to come by post or anything from the plant outlets I can walk to that has needed heat to grow. That also means no fertiliser or pesticide that is manufactured - not difficult as i garden organically. \\\the only additions to the garden will be propagated from my own stock or friends' cuttings etc. Two months into the year and I have cuttings of cornus, willow and forsythia, hundreds of snowdrops from division and set to sow loads of seeds which were already in the house. Only another ten months to go but I am enjoying the challenge for this year. More of us "not buying any more plants" could save the planet.
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Hi Gemma. Sounds like a good challenge for 2015. Be lovely to see some photos when its finished
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Lunaria - sounds like a good challenge! Always good to have knowledgeable family to help. Always one plant that ends up over running the garden - at least Crocosmia is pretty - my garden is becoming over run with Ivy in certain places. Trying to create an alpine bed which is over run with ivy is going to be another challenge for me and OH to sort too. Hopefully persistence will pay off!!
1st challenge. To stay on top of parts of the garden already under some kind of cultivation.
2nd challenge.To extend the cultivated areas.
3rd challeng. To plant every plant still lingering in its pot since it was brought home X years ago.
4th challenge. Not buy any more plants until the above are planted. ( Broke that resolution today!)
5th challenge. Do not put off doing jobs that needed doing yesterday.
Ho Hum!
Verdun -
- that would be an unachievable challenge for me
in the words of Oscar Wilde. " I can resist everything : except temptation"
Joyce G. you read my mind perfectly.
I think I am a hoplelessly unrescueable?, weak willed, plantaholic and rescuer. I cannot resist a bargain and rarely pay full price for my plants. Down here in Cornwall I am able to find really unusual plants in the reduced bin, and if you know your leaves, so many perfectly good plants are reduced as soon as the flowers have gone over. useful when the label is missing.
Last year I bought my sister a lovely 4ft Tracalospermum jasminoides for £2.99. Uusual price around £35.00, depending on the GC. I brought it home, repotted it, unravelled the stems, rewrapped them around new canes in a fan formation and hey presto, a lovely plant already forming flower buds.
Now that really is satisfying.
Verdun, as Bristol is Green Capital of Europe this year I am doing my best to help through not buying anything for the garden that needs to come by post or anything from the plant outlets I can walk to that has needed heat to grow. That also means no fertiliser or pesticide that is manufactured - not difficult as i garden organically. \\\the only additions to the garden will be propagated from my own stock or friends' cuttings etc. Two months into the year and I have cuttings of cornus, willow and forsythia, hundreds of snowdrops from division and set to sow loads of seeds which were already in the house. Only another ten months to go but I am enjoying the challenge for this year. More of us "not buying any more plants" could save the planet.