Verdun - as you know my garden gets a lot colder than yours with -15C for weeks being normal. Wusses are plants that don't stand up to my usual winters and I'm not about to invest in the price and P&P of Wild Swan to find it can't cope. No space in the greenhouse for molly coddling either.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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neighbours ok but garden about twice a year! It's nice to see my plants grow even if it's in someone else's garden. Tap out the back. garden in question out the front so neglected seeds vote with their feet or equivalent!
I better post a picture of Wild Swan Obelixx.....it's no "wuss"
Lyn well I guess they are a "daisy thing" but daisies are a very large family. I can grow most of them but I think leucanthemums are some of the most beautiful.
I have a nice lemon one.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
My garden won't grow monarda, astrantia or echinacea. I think if I want these they must be grown in pots.
We do get a lot of rain here and are also in a frost hollow, as well as being at the top of a hill with a gradual slope to the back garden. But I can grow and have kept melianthus.
Verdun, I have leucanthemum and I just pull bits up and replant and they just go. I would like the yellow ones too.
Verdun are leucanthemums chaste daisy? If so mine are between 5-6' tall and grow like weeds.
However what I would love to grow is Lobelia Queen Victoria, they rarely survive the winter and in 10yrs of buying them I have managed to get it to flower once.
I have a Lobelia Queen Victoria in my pond cathy, the slugs adore it but since raising the water level I think I've drowned them. Gorgeous plants aren't they.
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Sunflowers - they reach about 5ft but I understand you need to feed them.
Ragwort
Verdun - as you know my garden gets a lot colder than yours with -15C for weeks being normal. Wusses are plants that don't stand up to my usual winters and I'm not about to invest in the price and P&P of Wild Swan to find it can't cope. No space in the greenhouse for molly coddling either.
neighbours ok but garden about twice a year! It's nice to see my plants grow even if it's in someone else's garden. Tap out the back. garden in question out the front so neglected seeds vote with their feet or equivalent!
I have a nice lemon one.
My garden won't grow monarda, astrantia or echinacea. I think if I want these they must be grown in pots.
We do get a lot of rain here and are also in a frost hollow, as well as being at the top of a hill with a gradual slope to the back garden. But I can grow and have kept melianthus.
Verdun, I have leucanthemum and I just pull bits up and replant and they just go. I would like the yellow ones too.
Verdun are leucanthemums chaste daisy? If so mine are between 5-6' tall and grow like weeds.
However what I would love to grow is Lobelia Queen Victoria, they rarely survive the winter and in 10yrs of buying them I have managed to get it to flower once.
I have a Lobelia Queen Victoria in my pond cathy, the slugs adore it but since raising the water level I think I've drowned them. Gorgeous plants aren't they.