Rain and heavy drizzle here for most of daytime; so amused myself constructing bargain 'tall, skinny' plastic shelter from Wilkos [OH spotted a real bargain: £2.50 from £5 from £10 'cos one small rod missing!]. Got busy with hacksaw on Pembs hg bamboo cane replacement, (dried & seasoned from Colby Lodge NT gardens nearby 3 years ago). Shelter now installed inside 8x6 greenhouse - has trays of seedling tomatoes & sunflowers in it already.....busy, busy time of year...!!
Hi gardening gang like you I have been looking through gardening mags and have enjoyed big allotment challenge and it's got me motivated and ready for action in my own greenhouse and garden!! I had my greenhouse last year for my birthday and I just love spending time pottering and sowing my seeds etc. I'm new to both veg and flower growing from seed but I want to try it all!! So far I'm chatting potatoes, I've sown carrots, hot and sweet letters, beefsteak toms ans cherry toms and still have parsnips and spring onions to do. On the flower front I've sown varying sweet peas and some gorgeous dwarf sunflowers called Teddy Bear for my beautiful daughter who has severe special needs and will get a lot out of watching them grow!
wgat other flower seeds seeds would anyone recommend for a very keen newbie?!!!
Would your daughter enjoy making snap dragons (Antirrhinums) 'talk' Hyacinth? - they are fairly easy & make a nice display. Nicotiana are also easy & have a delicious scent in the evening.
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
Potted up a load of bare root Hosts, Echinacea and Hemerocallis. Its cold up here in the North East and we haven't seen any sign of spring yet but hopefully there'll be some warmth this weekend. Got lots to crack on with, really need to sort some kind of cold frame rather than keep on pulling plants out of shed every morning.
Been a grey, drizzly day here so no gardening, but good thinking time. I've read that a better variety of Oriental Poppy has been bred which flowers most of the summer, I was thinking of getting "Patty's Plum" (mine just died on me last year) but the new "Plum Pudding" might be better? Has anyone got any of the new kind of poppies and if so, what do you think of them?
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Fruit bed tidied. Old clematis cut down. Jasmine tied to an obelisk. Lots of irises and tete-a-tetes planted.
Rain and heavy drizzle here for most of daytime; so amused myself constructing bargain 'tall, skinny' plastic shelter from Wilkos [OH spotted a real bargain: £2.50 from £5 from £10 'cos one small rod missing!]. Got busy with hacksaw on Pembs hg bamboo cane replacement, (dried & seasoned from Colby Lodge NT gardens nearby 3 years ago). Shelter now installed inside 8x6 greenhouse - has trays of seedling tomatoes & sunflowers in it already.....busy, busy time of year...!!
Hi gardening gang like you I have been looking through gardening mags and have enjoyed big allotment challenge and it's got me motivated and ready for action in my own greenhouse and garden!! I had my greenhouse last year for my birthday and I just love spending time pottering and sowing my seeds etc. I'm new to both veg and flower growing from seed but I want to try it all!! So far I'm chatting potatoes, I've sown carrots, hot and sweet letters, beefsteak toms ans cherry toms and still have parsnips and spring onions to do. On the flower front I've sown varying sweet peas and some gorgeous dwarf sunflowers called Teddy Bear for my beautiful daughter who has severe special needs and will get a lot out of watching them grow!
wgat other flower seeds seeds would anyone recommend for a very keen newbie?!!!
I would recommend a some varieties of Cosmos, and nasturtiums are dead easy Too.
Potted up a load of bare root Hosts, Echinacea and Hemerocallis. Its cold up here in the North East and we haven't seen any sign of spring yet but hopefully there'll be some warmth this weekend. Got lots to crack on with, really need to sort some kind of cold frame rather than keep on pulling plants out of shed every morning.
Been a grey, drizzly day here so no gardening, but good thinking time. I've read that a better variety of Oriental Poppy has been bred which flowers most of the summer, I was thinking of getting "Patty's Plum" (mine just died on me last year) but the new "Plum Pudding" might be better? Has anyone got any of the new kind of poppies and if so, what do you think of them?
I know they're nothing new but I bought 4 " allegro" Oriental poppies from Waitrose for £10.
Patty's plum is still a classic.
Lizzie ,or anyone else, have you tried root cuttings of OPs? Supposedly easy, might give it a bash with PP
Wintersong. Try Ophiopogon with millium effusum aureum behind it