Oh and checked around Mai Tai. There are two seedlings near to it. One is a very very pale yellow, upward facing flower, very much like Geum Kathryn and the other is very much like Mai Tai itself. Nothing round Totally Tangerine though.
The orange really works with the vivid purples, my Bowles mauve is in another part of the garden and looking a bit sad having flopped over! Think it'll only be used for cuttings and replacing the original
I've got an orange day lilly Verdun, never seen variegated ones, got a couple of orange calendula already in flower but annuals arent they. Orange wud look nice next to my big hosta I've acquired this year, actually, will put sum calendula near it.
Like the erysimum Bizzie Lizzie, orange and purple on the same flower, how good is that? But just looked it up and it says its tender, u live in france dont u? Is our frost here likely to kill it, do u dig it up?
Just looked up Berberis darwinii, got one! Thought it may be berberis but didn't know full name, its just past its best, the bees love it and the birds perch on it outside my front window.
Crazyflower, it's a short lived perennial here, but cuttings take easily, which can be overwintered in a cold frame, GH or windowsill. Dordogne is usually colder than the UK in winter, often down to -7° to -10°. And we can have hard frosts and snow and violent rain! Summers are longer and hotter than the UK. Can be difficult to cope with when growing an English herbaceous border.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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Oh and checked around Mai Tai. There are two seedlings near to it. One is a very very pale yellow, upward facing flower, very much like Geum Kathryn and the other is very much like Mai Tai itself. Nothing round Totally Tangerine though.
The orange really works with the vivid purples, my Bowles mauve is in another part of the garden and looking a bit sad having flopped over! Think it'll only be used for cuttings and replacing the original
Here is my TT with erysimum Jenny Brook.
I've got an orange day lilly Verdun, never seen variegated ones, got a couple of orange calendula already in flower but annuals arent they. Orange wud look nice next to my big hosta I've acquired this year, actually, will put sum calendula near it.
Like the erysimum Bizzie Lizzie, orange and purple on the same flower, how good is that? But just looked it up and it says its tender, u live in france dont u? Is our frost here likely to kill it, do u dig it up?
Just looked up Berberis darwinii, got one! Thought it may be berberis but didn't know full name, its just past its best, the bees love it and the birds perch on it outside my front window.
Crazyflower, it's a short lived perennial here, but cuttings take easily, which can be overwintered in a cold frame, GH or windowsill. Dordogne is usually colder than the UK in winter, often down to -7° to -10°. And we can have hard frosts and snow and violent rain! Summers are longer and hotter than the UK. Can be difficult to cope with when growing an English herbaceous border.