Speaking about yellow or orange flowering plants, do any of you like Calendula? I bought seeds a couple of years ago and they've survived summer heat and winter frost and have continued to put out flowers all year. They are also good at self-seeding. Bit of a nuisance if you don't like them though.
I don't like the look of the flower in my borders but I grow it in a container to make medicinal herbal remedies and I like to look at it in traditional Mexican day of the dead type settings.
Oh yes, horsetail too. I had to give up my allotment because it was infested with horsetail. The previous tenant had rotovated monthly and the whole plot had horsetail coming up like grass. It was incredibly demoralising as I'd spent weeks clearing it over the winter and then comeApril it was absolutely unusable although I guess that's a pretty good reason not to like something isn't it!
Re the Mahonia, I didn't know it had to be pruned but I don't think I can't find any room for it n my heart. It is so municipal.
Another plant I'm not very fond of is Monkey Puzzle Trees. Maybe I just don't much prehistoric plants.
I love those, we went to a Highland estate in Scotland on holiday some years ago where they had lots of monkey puzzle trees. They looked fantastic in the right setting. Not so good in front of a modern bungalow.
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It's this Pat https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=257
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Marigolds first and foremost.
Those horrible little summer bedding plants like pink begonia and blue lobelia.
Thanks Dove for the info. I can't say that I've seen it here, but it might be elsewhere in the country. Forewarned is forearmed.
Speaking about yellow or orange flowering plants, do any of you like Calendula? I bought seeds a couple of years ago and they've survived summer heat and winter frost and have continued to put out flowers all year. They are also good at self-seeding. Bit of a nuisance if you don't like them though.
I don't like the look of the flower in my borders but I grow it in a container to make medicinal herbal remedies and I like to look at it in traditional Mexican day of the dead type settings.
Oh yes, horsetail too. I had to give up my allotment because it was infested with horsetail. The previous tenant had rotovated monthly and the whole plot had horsetail coming up like grass. It was incredibly demoralising as I'd spent weeks clearing it over the winter and then comeApril it was absolutely unusable although I guess that's a pretty good reason not to like something isn't it!
Re the Mahonia, I didn't know it had to be pruned but I don't think I can't find any room for it n my heart. It is so municipal.
Another plant I'm not very fond of is Monkey Puzzle Trees. Maybe I just don't much prehistoric plants.
I love those, we went to a Highland estate in Scotland on holiday some years ago where they had lots of monkey puzzle trees. They looked fantastic in the right setting. Not so good in front of a modern bungalow.
In defence of " marigolds" , their make excellent companion plants , particularly for tomatoes