I have just come in from planting one of those G. Palmatums. I bought it at our local community garden last week for £1 . They told me that they do tend to die off in a hard winter but if you let it self seed you will have them forever!
Jo, they are all lupins, all from seeds, about 4to 5 ft tall, there is a blue delphinium on the extreme left of the photo.
My geranium did survive the winter, Daryl, stayed green as well. It turned out a bit purlpe in the photo, its actually pink, I took it on the phone and the colour is not true.
Had I known it was going to be that big I would have put it back a bit.
If you look at my entry on the Garden Pictures 2015, you can get an idea of its size and the colour is true.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
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I've just looked up the geraniums suggested by WillDB and nut and they look the same so well done to both
It's huge and I want one!
Wow! Thank you folks, I was beginning to wonder, its taken off like a weed, no sign of flowers yet but I will keep you posted,
I love geraniums, and thank to Bekkie ( I think it was) I now have a complete border of them, the blue and purple ones are flowering now.
Can anyone remember send me a root of Rozanne or similar, I lost all my old PM'S and cant remember who sent what.
I do have a gorgeous Geum about to flower and I know Victoria Sponge sent that to me, so thank you everyone.
I have found the pot it came in.... wow, hasnt it grown from last year! They got it wrong with the spread though, its huge.
It flowered bu bit of a brute. Not too good a pic, I posted on the phone.
They are lupins Jo.
Nice colours in that border! Very harmonious.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I have just come in from planting one of those G. Palmatums. I bought it at our local community garden last week for £1
. They told me that they do tend to die off in a hard winter but if you let it self seed you will have them forever!
Jo, they are all lupins, all from seeds, about 4to 5 ft tall, there is a blue delphinium on the extreme left of the photo.
My geranium did survive the winter, Daryl, stayed green as well. It turned out a bit purlpe in the photo, its actually pink, I took it on the phone and the colour is not true.
Had I known it was going to be that big I would have put it back a bit.
If you look at my entry on the Garden Pictures 2015, you can get an idea of its size and the colour is true.