Don't think I was meant to grow flowers, I'm having a problem downsizing some pics, so they will enlarge, all problem ones seem to be flower ones. I do have some Clematis and pretty stuff, honest. Paint box keeps saying it can't save them and then wipes them out. Must be me.
Thanks BL, these pics will enlarge and some others that I haven't posted won't..dunno why. Nice lawn ?? ..good job they don't enlarge anymore..green stuff only. Just wish I had your talent and garden. In fact same for most of pictures on here. Just put these on so you knew I actually had a garden
Nut, do you think it is a phormium ? I'm not sure. Had phormiums before, a lot nicer looking plants, but always a bit tender in Yorks if planted in the ground. The trifid is very tough has inflexible leaves, but not sharp, tough as old boots, no die back, not bothered by hard frosts, been buried and flattened by snow, almost drowned, never fed, and had lumps dug away from base. Doesn't produce any basal off shoots.
It arrived about 15yrs ago in a pot with a phormium, that we were given when GC flooded. We potted it on and it remained smallish in a pot for 10yrs. Then I stuck it in the garden and that's the result. Horrid orange flower thing but I haven't the heart to dig it out.
Haven't found anything in books quite like it, would like to be able to give it a name.
Phormium tenax, tall grey-green leaves. Not as decorative as those that are cvs of cookianum (?) but more likely to be there at the end of winter. Lost mine after the -15C winter, it couldn't take that
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Thanks daisyhc and bl, love seeing your pics. No idea about enlarging pics sorry.
A few things from my garden.
Killing off the A. Mollis
Don't know what this, view of spike next
Bulbs need taking out of pots
Tad too close together.
Waiting for free Cosmos to have some flowerheads.
Don't think I was meant to grow flowers, I'm having a problem downsizing some pics, so they will enlarge, all problem ones seem to be flower ones. I do have some Clematis and pretty stuff, honest. Paint box keeps saying it can't save them and then wipes them out. Must be me.
KEF your photos do enlarge. I like the way you have the veg growing in with the flowers, cottage gardeny but with a nice lawn.
Thanks BL, these pics will enlarge and some others that I haven't posted won't..dunno why. Nice lawn ?? ..good job they don't enlarge anymore..green stuff only. Just wish I had your talent and garden. In fact same for most of pictures on here. Just put these on so you knew I actually had a garden
nice one KEF, I see your phormium is going to flower,
In the sticks near Peterborough
Nut, do you think it is a phormium ? I'm not sure. Had phormiums before, a lot nicer looking plants, but always a bit tender in Yorks if planted in the ground. The trifid is very tough has inflexible leaves, but not sharp, tough as old boots, no die back, not bothered by hard frosts, been buried and flattened by snow, almost drowned, never fed, and had lumps dug away from base. Doesn't produce any basal off shoots.
It arrived about 15yrs ago in a pot with a phormium, that we were given when GC flooded. We potted it on and it remained smallish in a pot for 10yrs. Then I stuck it in the garden and that's the result. Horrid orange flower thing but I haven't the heart to dig it out.
Haven't found anything in books quite like it, would like to be able to give it a name.
Phormium tenax, tall grey-green leaves. Not as decorative as those that are cvs of cookianum (?) but more likely to be there at the end of winter. Lost mine after the -15C winter, it couldn't take that
In the sticks near Peterborough
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phormium_tenax
The only photo I could find with flowers.
In the sticks near Peterborough