I'm glad Nut has found this thread again. Afraid it slipped my mind while not getting email notifications.
Before I think of an M I would just like to ask if any of you has grown Linaria? I bought it in Paradise Park GC in Newhaven when we were in England in April. I thought it was a yellow wild flower, toadflax, with snapdragon flowers, but this one says it has purple flowers. It's growing taller than I thought it would.
Back to "M" - Monarda. I had a red one and I've just bought a purple one and a pink one. Like the smell of it's leaves.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
BusyLizzie - I have never grown Linaria, but have seen the version known as "fairy toadflax" grown in a Chelsea show garden a couple of years ago. It was the Leeds County Council Garden - the one where they recreated a watermill/lock. It had a large bank that they made into meadow, and the main flower in it was fairy toadflax (I know because I liked it so much I asked). En masse they were breathtaking. They were a range of pastel colours. A bit of googling will probably unearth some pictures ....
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I know, I've heard all the arguments for years, but there you go, Gardening is a matter of personal taste isn't it.
I know were all out there grafting but I was enjoying all the alphabetical plants.
M is next
Mandrake is an interesting plant, these are it's unripe fruits, not to be eaten.
And meadow buttercups
In the sticks near Peterborough
Nut - I thought Mandrake only existed in Harry Potter ! Do yours come to life and scream
Love your meadow - so pretty.
Can I add Magnolias - all sorts, but specially stellata.
I daren't pull the mandrake up chicky, who knows what might happen
In the sticks near Peterborough
...what a weird plant, I've never heard of it.. or seen it...
I'm glad Nut has found this thread again. Afraid it slipped my mind while not getting email notifications.
Before I think of an M I would just like to ask if any of you has grown Linaria? I bought it in Paradise Park GC in Newhaven when we were in England in April. I thought it was a yellow wild flower, toadflax, with snapdragon flowers, but this one says it has purple flowers. It's growing taller than I thought it would.
Back to "M" - Monarda. I had a red one and I've just bought a purple one and a pink one. Like the smell of it's leaves.
Isn't linaria another name for honesty? Way brain's working tonight could be wrong
Well Marigold I guess, and something I've never been able to grow - Meconopsis - lovely
BusyLizzie - I have never grown Linaria, but have seen the version known as "fairy toadflax" grown in a Chelsea show garden a couple of years ago. It was the Leeds County Council Garden - the one where they recreated a watermill/lock. It had a large bank that they made into meadow, and the main flower in it was fairy toadflax (I know because I liked it so much I asked). En masse they were breathtaking. They were a range of pastel colours. A bit of googling will probably unearth some pictures ....
Chicky- fairy toadflax..don't you know- I was found-underneath a clump of it.....
Magnolia 'stellata'- absolutely.
Mahonia-very useful shrub.
Malus-'John Downie' and 'Golden Hornet' and the shuttlecock fern 'Matteuccia'.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...