Lorna, if I had known you wanted seed I could have collected some for you. I have pulled most of the verbena up now as it really had taken over the garden along with the Gaura. If I can still find some, I will collect it for you.
Kathy, we too have the horse chestnut problem with the leaves trurning brown at the end of July but it still seems to come back nice and fresh looking in the Spring. I planted a couple of English conkers when we moved in 1999 and although they have taken a long time to grow, we did get 2 flowers on one of them last year but nothing this year. When we bought the house in 1995 there was no garden at all, just rough pasture and lots and lots of brambles. It has been a very hard job to get some order into it but it still defeats me some days. It is not a bit like gardening in UK where we had very sandy soil, here it is extremely heavy clay, impossible to work when it is wet or very dry.
Love the colour on the first photo, reminds me of rhubarb and custard.
Amazing how the same plant can produce such different shades of colour, probably due to the intensity of the sun or light.
I've managed to get a few seeds of Lace Babydoll which I will plant when the time is right, hopefully, they will produce something a bit different.
A couple of old photos for Lorna showing the way that Verbena Bonariensis spreads itself. I started with one plant and it now grows everywhere, even in the compost heap and vegetable garden.
This one reminds me of double daffodils. It is Double River Wye and still in flower now.
Elizabeth Wow! your garden is lovely, the verbena are fantastic ,know what you mean about brambles our house is built on old neglected allotment land,we have ground elder and bindweed too, we've been here 15 years now and starting to win the battle,I think, like you our first garden was very sandy soil and this is heavy clay apart from some areas where the soil was brought in, we're on the top of a hill so the garden had to be terraced.
Rhubarb Custard yes!! it does, I've just looked on the daylily database to see if that name is taken as I think it fits it perfectly, it is one I'm watching,a couple more years though before I decide whether or not to register it but so far so good its a really good performer, so if I do that will be its name
I have Double River Wye, bet you knew that anyway lol, very pretty one, I sent some to my friend in the Azores and his is reblooming too, it never does for me though
Pat that's a huge clump!! very pretty, don't have a clue which it is though it looks like a bi-color(petals different colour to sepals)
Oh no it's a really good one Verdun just doesn't rebloom here, it might for you though if you live somewhere milder than me, I'm in the Midlands, mine needs splitting in the spring if you'd like to try a piece?
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Lorna, if I had known you wanted seed I could have collected some for you. I have pulled most of the verbena up now as it really had taken over the garden along with the Gaura. If I can still find some, I will collect it for you.
Kathy, we too have the horse chestnut problem with the leaves trurning brown at the end of July but it still seems to come back nice and fresh looking in the Spring. I planted a couple of English conkers when we moved in 1999 and although they have taken a long time to grow, we did get 2 flowers on one of them last year but nothing this year. When we bought the house in 1995 there was no garden at all, just rough pasture and lots and lots of brambles. It has been a very hard job to get some order into it but it still defeats me some days. It is not a bit like gardening in UK where we had very sandy soil, here it is extremely heavy clay, impossible to work when it is wet or very dry.
Love the colour on the first photo, reminds me of rhubarb and custard.
Amazing how the same plant can produce such different shades of colour, probably due to the intensity of the sun or light.
I've managed to get a few seeds of Lace Babydoll which I will plant when the time is right, hopefully, they will produce something a bit different.
A couple of old photos for Lorna showing the way that Verbena Bonariensis spreads itself. I started with one plant and it now grows everywhere, even in the compost heap and vegetable garden.
This one reminds me of double daffodils. It is Double River Wye and still in flower now.
Hi Kathy. Several months ago I promised to send you a photo of my Daylilly When it flowered. This is the ordinary one, the double hasn't flowered yet.
Elizabeth Wow! your garden is lovely, the verbena are fantastic
,know what you mean about brambles our house is built on old neglected allotment land,we have ground elder and bindweed too, we've been here 15 years now and starting to win the battle,I think, like you our first garden was very sandy soil and this is heavy clay apart from some areas where the soil was brought in, we're on the top of a hill so the garden had to be terraced.
Rhubarb Custard yes!! it does, I've just looked on the daylily database to see if that name is taken as I think it fits it perfectly
, it is one I'm watching,a couple more years though before I decide whether or not to register it but so far so good its a really good performer, so if I do that will be its name
I have Double River Wye, bet you knew that anyway lol, very pretty one, I sent some to my friend in the Azores and his is reblooming too, it never does for me though
Pat that's a huge clump!! very pretty, don't have a clue which it is though it looks like a bi-color(petals different colour to sepals)
Ok Thanks. I'll send a photo of the double when it appears.
Oh no it's a really good one Verdun just doesn't rebloom here, it might for you though if you live somewhere milder than me, I'm in the Midlands, mine needs splitting in the spring if you'd like to try a piece?
Ooo I love a swap Verdun
I'll make a note in my little book now to remind me, it'll be early April when I split it 