Aqueligia, I saw them a couple of years ago when new to this whole gardening lark and thought they looked like space ships love a plant that can make me giggle and I've loved them ever since.
Tree lupin, fab flowers and the leaves catch droplets of water in the centre which looks so stunning.
Morning Glory, the purple ones, grew one last year and every morning the new bloom floored me. Is it more beautiful because each flower lasts only a day? They just kept coming though!
Fragrant sweetpeas, jasmine, and various succulents.
My 10...in no particular order. Most are grown for fragrance or because they attract pollinators...especially bees.
1. veronica
2. echinacea
3. lavender
4. thymes..or hyssop...or agastache...or oregano...or all 4
5. tithonia rotundifolia
6. ferns
7. coronilla
8. cerinthe
9. tagettes
10. nemesia
all subject to change depending on my mood....but I can't imagine a garden of mine without these plants, I would have put echium pininana in there but I've only ever managed to get one to the flowering stage once....
Geum Mrs Bradshaw which, with its wondeful scarlet flowers on long stems just goes on and cheefully on all summer! Mine is in its second year and just gets better.
addict, do you have a Paulownia tomentosa? I did have and cut it back to keep huge leaves as seller told me. At that time I didn't know it flowered so beautifully, and it sadly didn't regrow and died.
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Roses, Foxgloves, Hardy Geranium, Hollyhocks, Lupins, Sweet pea, Delpiniums, Viola, Clematis.
Tree lupin, fab flowers and the leaves catch droplets of water in the centre which looks so stunning.
Morning Glory, the purple ones, grew one last year and every morning the new bloom floored me. Is it more beautiful because each flower lasts only a day? They just kept coming though!
Fragrant sweetpeas, jasmine, and various succulents.
My 10...in no particular order. Most are grown for fragrance or because they attract pollinators...especially bees.
1. veronica
2. echinacea
3. lavender
4. thymes..or hyssop...or agastache...or oregano...or all 4
5. tithonia rotundifolia
6. ferns
7. coronilla
8. cerinthe
9. tagettes
10. nemesia
all subject to change depending on my mood....but I can't imagine a garden of mine without these plants, I would have put echium pininana in there but I've only ever managed to get one to the flowering stage once....
My top ten...soooo hard to choose
Tropaeolum speciosum....I'm on chalk
Lillies. Any that smell nice
Clematis...smelly ones only
Iris chrysographes
Helianthemum
white schizostyles
Viburnum juddii
Any tall Veronica
Cedrus deodora
Paulownia tomentosa
And thats it?! Thats all I can have?! But I've only just started
addict, do you have a Paulownia tomentosa? I did have and cut it back to keep huge leaves as seller told me. At that time I didn't know it flowered so beautifully, and it sadly didn't regrow and died.