There must be something about the yellow daylillies as all the ones that are still flowering are of different shades of yellow.
The seasons are a bit muddled as I saw flower buds on my flowering quince today and a few violets are blooming as well. Daffodils are 6" above the ground and my Morning Glory plants are flowering their socks off. Perhaps it was too hot in the summer to bloom so they have kept themselves for the mild autumn.
I dug up a lot of the ordinary day lillies today but could not bring myself to put them on the compost heap so cleared the soil between the walnut trees and have planted them there. Should make a nice show for people walking along the road next year. Still got lots to dig up but still have another 50 gaps to fill between the trees. That should keep me going until the Spring.
Thank you Elizabeth that is really kind of you. Love the colours in your garden, could you tell me what that grass is called, the one in your second photo on the bottom right with the pink tuffs on it, Grasses are another thing I'm getting in to, if you know the name I will look out for that one.
I can see what you are saying about the Verbena Bonariensis spreading, but it is lovely, love the colour on it. I like the look of your Double River Wye, I get what you mean that it reminds you of a double daffodil.
Sounds like your very busy in your garden Elizabeth, there are things I need to do in the garden aswell, but it has been raining here for 3 days and has been really windy, It seems to stop raining if we are out or at night and I can't do any gardening then, just hope it let's up a bit so I can get some gardening done.
Pat your daylily is lovely.
Oh Kathy don't tell me about bindweed, we never had it in our garden when we first moved in, but about 4 years later it came up, we keep putting weed killer on it but every year it keeps coming up, I don't like to use weed killer but had no choice with this stuff.
Where we have the allotment but Man who runs it, lives on site as well and down near the house he has loads of bindweed (the allotment is where cows used to roam in a big field) he doesn't do anything to try and control it, it just leaves it to get bigger and it had loads of flowers on it, I know on the back plots there is bindweed there, I just hope it doesn't get over to my plot, I won't be paying to control his bindweed. There is another allotment a bit further, but don't know what that is like.
We did have 1 and a half allotments Lorna but gave the half up the people who had it never grew anything just kept rotavating it, it was full of bindweed so the worst thing they could do!! it kept spreading onto ours, never ending job trying to get rid of it so we gave the half up the one we have is luckily bindweed free, I use roundup in the garden too on the bindweed and ground elder that spreads under the hedge from the building plot next door which at long last after 15 years is being built on.
Sounds like you're going to be very busy Elizabeth, I'm busy decorating, rather be outside.
Another nice collection Kathy, particularly like Real Winds, I don't have many of that colour range, so must try to find some. I seem to have a lot of yellows and really dark burgundy ranges.
Lorna, the grass you like is called Pennisetum Karley Rose. When I bought it from a french catalogue, it was just a piece of dead looking couch grass but I planted it in a pot before planting in the gravel and it has grown and grown. A good place to buy in UK is from knollgardens.co.uk They have a wonderful selection at quite reasonable prices. I might succumb myself to a few more if they send to France.
Verdun, I have grown a few grasses for many years but the choice here is very limited but those that I have seem to spread quite nicely. Stipa Tenuissima is a prime example and fills any nook or cranny it can find. This leads to a real prairie effect and it has been the envy of many of my friends so I am happy to give them little plants knowing they won't be filling my garden. They are so easy to pull up, so
not a problem
.
Here self sown amongst other self sown plants.
Really pretty when young and fresh in May
This is a lovely grass but not hardy here. Can't remember the name, ** something Heavy Metal.
The other side of the clump showing blue grass Leymus Arenarius and Miscanthus Sinensis Zebrinus and Stipa Gigantea to the right. I wish this one would grow a bit faster, it has been in the ground for a few years now and is only just beginning to be a plant capable of the name Giganteum.
Foggy and damp out today, so I am staying in the warm.
I am not sure what species the red leaved grass is but I will have a look tomorrow as I managed to save a bit of it last year before the frost killed the big plant. I put it in a pot and kept it in the greenhouse over winter. I will put it in a big pot and sink it in the pebbles for next year, so I can lift it in the autumn. Hopefully, it is labelled. I don't think it was panicum, so it probably is a Pennisetum and I have the variety wrong.
The blue grass was sold to me as Leymus and when I saw Elymus on the web, I thought the grower had mixed the letters up but I am sure, after reading the descripton on Knoll Gardens site that it is Leymus. It spreads like wildfire and I am always pulling up shoots to keep it in bounds but as you say, the blue leaves are the main attraction
The flowers on the Golden Oat grass have disintegrated already, so there is nothing for the frost to decorate this year.
Verdun, I don't think I suggested it was a panicum as I know I don't have any of those but I was wrong with the 'heavy metal' name. It is Pennisetum Setaceum Rubrum Metallica. Mystery solved.
Are you in a warm climate country or just in a sheltered spot to get your grasses flowering early?
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There must be something about the yellow daylillies as all the ones that are still flowering are of different shades of yellow.
The seasons are a bit muddled as I saw flower buds on my flowering quince today and a few violets are blooming as well. Daffodils are 6" above the ground and my Morning Glory plants are flowering their socks off. Perhaps it was too hot in the summer to bloom so they have kept themselves for the mild autumn.
I dug up a lot of the ordinary day lillies today but could not bring myself to put them on the compost heap so cleared the soil between the walnut trees and have planted them there. Should make a nice show for people walking along the road next year. Still got lots to dig up but still have another 50 gaps to fill between the trees. That should keep me going until the Spring.
Thank you Elizabeth that is really kind of you. Love the colours in your garden, could you tell me what that grass is called, the one in your second photo on the bottom right with the pink tuffs on it, Grasses are another thing I'm getting in to, if you know the name I will look out for that one.
I can see what you are saying about the Verbena Bonariensis spreading, but it is lovely, love the colour on it. I like the look of your Double River Wye, I get what you mean that it reminds you of a double daffodil.
Sounds like your very busy in your garden Elizabeth, there are things I need to do in the garden aswell, but it has been raining here for 3 days and has been really windy, It seems to stop raining if we are out or at night and I can't do any gardening then, just hope it let's up a bit so I can get some gardening done.
Pat your daylily is lovely.
Oh Kathy don't tell me about bindweed, we never had it in our garden when we first moved in, but about 4 years later it came up, we keep putting weed killer on it but every year it keeps coming up, I don't like to use weed killer but had no choice with this stuff.
Where we have the allotment but Man who runs it, lives on site as well and down near the house he has loads of bindweed (the allotment is where cows used to roam in a big field) he doesn't do anything to try and control it, it just leaves it to get bigger and it had loads of flowers on it, I know on the back plots there is bindweed there, I just hope it doesn't get over to my plot, I won't be paying to control his bindweed. There is another allotment a bit further, but don't know what that is like.
We did have 1 and a half allotments Lorna but gave the half up the people who had it never grew anything just kept rotavating it, it was full of bindweed so the worst thing they could do!! it kept spreading onto ours, never ending job trying to get rid of it so we gave the half up the one we have is luckily bindweed free, I use roundup in the garden too on the bindweed and ground elder that spreads under the hedge from the building plot next door which at long last after 15 years is being built on.
Sounds like you're going to be very busy Elizabeth, I'm busy decorating, rather be outside.
A couple more pictures
Pretty Miss
Real Wind, love this one
Wisest of Wizards
Another nice collection Kathy, particularly like Real Winds, I don't have many of that colour range, so must try to find some. I seem to have a lot of yellows and really dark burgundy ranges.
Lorna, the grass you like is called Pennisetum Karley Rose. When I bought it from a french catalogue, it was just a piece of dead looking couch grass but I planted it in a pot before planting in the gravel and it has grown and grown. A good place to buy in UK is from knollgardens.co.uk They have a wonderful selection at quite reasonable prices. I might succumb myself to a few more if they send to France.
Verdun, I have grown a few grasses for many years but the choice here is very limited but those that I have seem to spread quite nicely. Stipa Tenuissima is a prime example and fills any nook or cranny it can find. This leads to a real prairie effect and it has been the envy of many of my friends so I am happy to give them little plants knowing they won't be filling my garden. They are so easy to pull up, so
not a problem
.
Here self sown amongst other self sown plants.
Really pretty when young and fresh in May
This is a lovely grass but not hardy here. Can't remember the name, ** something Heavy Metal.
The other side of the clump showing blue grass Leymus Arenarius and Miscanthus Sinensis Zebrinus and Stipa Gigantea to the right. I wish this one would grow a bit faster, it has been in the ground for a few years now and is only just beginning to be a plant capable of the name Giganteum.
Foggy and damp out today, so I am staying in the warm.
I am not sure what species the red leaved grass is but I will have a look tomorrow as I managed to save a bit of it last year before the frost killed the big plant. I put it in a pot and kept it in the greenhouse over winter. I will put it in a big pot and sink it in the pebbles for next year, so I can lift it in the autumn. Hopefully, it is labelled. I don't think it was panicum, so it probably is a Pennisetum and I have the variety wrong.
The blue grass was sold to me as Leymus and when I saw Elymus on the web, I thought the grower had mixed the letters up but I am sure, after reading the descripton on Knoll Gardens site that it is Leymus. It spreads like wildfire and I am always pulling up shoots to keep it in bounds but as you say, the blue leaves are the main attraction
The flowers on the Golden Oat grass have disintegrated already, so there is nothing for the frost to decorate this year.
Verdun, I don't think I suggested it was a panicum as I know I don't have any of those but I was wrong with the 'heavy metal' name. It is Pennisetum Setaceum Rubrum Metallica. Mystery solved.
Are you in a warm climate country or just in a sheltered spot to get your grasses flowering early?