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What is catching your eye?
Looking through the seed catalogues, as us gardeners do at this time, my eye has been caught by a climbing Dicentra, with yellow flowers, and what are described as decorative brown seed pods.
What is catching your eye?
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When you don't even know who's in the team
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That's interesting, the yellow dicentra, not that I'm an expert on these things. The website I went on described it as 'elf climbing' which I like even more
I'm moderately self indulgent so I've already ordered a lot of exciting things for next year but at the moment I've got my eye on some dahlias from a specialist nursery not too far away and some gladioli I need for a colour scheme. They're from what looks to be a show/exhibit place, but they won't know I'm just a normal person will they
I'm always on the look-out for more dahlias, but I'm looking at growing some cannas from seed for the new " Jungle " border .
The climbing dicentra is great punkdoc, a lovely shade plant. Copes with anything except hot and dry. One of mine had its roots under water for ages last winter and flowered for weeks this year.
In the sticks near Peterborough
just bitten the bullet and ordered 6 ginger rhizomes and a packet of ginger seed.
Hosta, can you grow ginger plants from bits of supermarket ginger, sure I've seen it somewhere.
A decent lawn mower is catching my eye this year, one that starts on a key, I cant be doing with these pull cord jobbies.
I have lots of different seeds this year from the seed swap, Nut sent me some paricularly nice ones, all a challenge, so no seed cats for me this year.
Lyn, I've no idea to be honest. Give it a go and see what happens?? I'd be interested to see the results.
I'd like to try growing ginger too. I'd heard it is quite invasive - anyone grown it before?
I can never start the pull cord mowers Lyn! I End up looking like (even more of) a nutter trying to yank ours into life
On the seeds / plant catalogues; my eyes lit up at the lovely colours and photos in the Sarah Raven one yesterday. I was thinking WOW, I wish I could grow such perfect Blooms! On closer inspection though, the images look a bit faked. Like they've been doctored or superimposed onto background shots. I wonder if I'm paranoid or if they actually do this??
Can't comment on Sarah Ravens catalogue, I haven't seen it, but there are a lot of 'improved' images in catalogues.
In the sticks near Peterborough
thanks for the link. I think I'll give it a miss - sounds slow, and big, and tricky!
..I received these recently, and already sown a few...
Agastache cana - a C. Lloyd recommendation
Agastache foeniculum 'Golden Jubilee'... I saw this on another forum and rather liked it..
Alonsoa meridionalis 'Rebel'.. just my favourite tender perennial..the Mexican Hat...deep red and graceful...
Ampelodesmos mauritanica... tender ornamental grass that I first saw on a photo of member 'Obelixx'... from her Chelsea visit...
Oenothera caespitosa 'Rosea'... no idea why..
Oenothera 'Copper Canyon'... I liked the name..
Omphalodes cappadocica.... I need a few...
.obviously, I only looked at A's and O's...