Thanks Brenda, my MiL had them under her front hedge in Edinburgh but although I had them in flower here once it's never happened again. Think the midges eat them. it's got very wet at the bottom of the garden since the council cut down a huge stand of conifers behind the house.
I am in my first year in this garden so discovering all sorts of things - I'm an experienced gardener but I usually put a garden in, in a void, rather than uncovering a previously loved garden that's been neglected for a few years.
I remember honesty from when I was a kid and I loved the silvery disks. Funnily enough, there's a bush of some sort that must have self-seeded because no one would have planted it that close to the privet hedge (shudder at the thought of the sycamore down the end that should have been nipped in the bud as a sapling!!) ... anyway, I thought THAT might be honesty (not realising it was an annual) so I might be posting that later for ID.
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Honesty (lunaria annua) - lovely - a real cottage garden favourite.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
wow really? It's growing as a weed, how fab
thanks Dovefromabove
Watch for seeds, you can collect a few sow in late summer/autumn plant out next spring in your garden.
It'll have seeds like these
When they're dry collect and scatter them in your garden - in two years you'll have your own Honesty plants
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Brenda it depends where you live
. I have tried to grow it, but failed, due to winter wet. Love it and will try again in a better site
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It has just leaves first year and flowers second year here , I managed to weed it out accidently as not recognised it in the non flowering stage
Thanks Brenda, my MiL had them under her front hedge in Edinburgh but although I had them in flower here once it's never happened again. Think the midges eat them
. it's got very wet at the bottom of the garden since the council cut down a huge stand of conifers behind the house.
I am in my first year in this garden so discovering all sorts of things - I'm an experienced gardener but I usually put a garden in, in a void, rather than uncovering a previously loved garden that's been neglected for a few years.
I remember honesty from when I was a kid and I loved the silvery disks. Funnily enough, there's a bush of some sort that must have self-seeded because no one would have planted it that close to the privet hedge (shudder at the thought of the sycamore down the end that should have been nipped in the bud as a sapling!!) ... anyway, I thought THAT might be honesty (not realising it was an annual) so I might be posting that later for ID.