I love the analogy of chucking them away like boyfriends / girlfriends. Perhaps when I pull them up when they are in the wrong place I can imagine they are people I dislike.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
I went mad with annuals for a couple of years and loved the seed sowing and having little plastic greenhouses which gave the impression of lots of things going on and lots to see. And the cheapness of packets of seeds I suppose. Novice gardener thing - if there are lots to see it looks as if you're achieving something and have loads of colour around before the 'main' garden perennials grow on a bit. I was in the novice gardener psyche of 'good grief - I sowed that and it actually grew and flowered'!
I went mad again last year but planting out and so much rain and rotten weather really put me off making such an effort this year. I haven't sown a thing as my perennials have come on pretty well and there's little space - only masses of pots to do something with now and I'm very late even thinking about it. I love some of the annuals though - especially multi-coloured nemesia seeds casually thrown into window box planters - they just do away and look amazing by late summer. It seemed so easy and beautifully colourful. It's only about 8 degrees here - can't believe it so cold still and I'm only now contemplating sowing outdoor sweetpeas because I have nothing else to grow up my permanent stakes and netting. I'll pop out there today and do it all the same in the hope of some 'tall' colour by late summer early autumn.
I think I'm just having a lazy attitude to feeling I'm always fighting the weather!
I just love annuals,there ive said it. couldnt imagine not looking through the seeds catalogues straight after christmas and planning for the summer.Sowing the seeds and nurtering them,then looking at my garden in full bloom and having the satisfaction that everything has been grown by myself. Being retired I obviously have the time to do it and keeps me busy through the worst months of the year.
...clearly, lots of people like their annuals... I think I prefer a mixed garden and am not keen on a front area given over to them entirely... as you often see, but I wouldn't want to be without a few Begonia's or Busy Lizzies here and there...
..tender perennials, used as annuals are another favourite, if they can be got ready early enough - such a long season.... Alonsoa 'Rebel' is my current 'hottie' from that section... I wonder if other gardeners like this sort of thing...
Annuals are great for new gardens, as they give almost instant impact, but I do like perennials, as you plant them once, and as long as the place and soil suits, them, you don't have to do it again. I love scented things, and if you can't eat it, and it doesn't smell, then it doesn't tend to get planted in my garden. There are a few exceptions, but not many.
Lots of people use their garden to park on, so it's gravelled, concreted, paved etc, so I think a few big pots or hanging baskets of colourful annuals helps soften things a bit and provides some welcome colour.
I love the analogy of chucking them away like boyfriends / girlfriends. Perhaps when I pull them up when they are in the wrong place I can imagine they are people I dislike.
I save the pruning for that punkdoc...
Salino-that was quite a racy comment about boyfriends...
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
This is the first year in about 5 where I haven't planted any annuals apart from sweet peas and cosmos. Mostly that's due to a lack of space and all window sils and two cold frames packed with veg seedlings for our allotment for our first whole year there.
I think the longer we live with our perennials, watching them go to sleep through the autumn and waiting patiently for signs of life in the spring, they become like good friends returning after a holiday. I think annuals are different in that respect, less of reunion with a much loved friend and more of a flirtatious glance shared with a beautiful stranger in a supermarket perhaps. Joyous too, of course, but different.
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I love the analogy of chucking them away like boyfriends / girlfriends. Perhaps when I pull them up when they are in the wrong place I can imagine they are people I dislike.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
I went mad with annuals for a couple of years and loved the seed sowing and having little plastic greenhouses which gave the impression of lots of things going on and lots to see. And the cheapness of packets of seeds I suppose. Novice gardener thing - if there are lots to see it looks as if you're achieving something and have loads of colour around before the 'main' garden perennials grow on a bit. I was in the novice gardener psyche of 'good grief - I sowed that and it actually grew and flowered'!
I went mad again last year but planting out and so much rain and rotten weather really put me off making such an effort this year. I haven't sown a thing as my perennials have come on pretty well and there's little space - only masses of pots to do something with now and I'm very late even thinking about it. I love some of the annuals though - especially multi-coloured nemesia seeds casually thrown into window box planters - they just do away and look amazing by late summer. It seemed so easy and beautifully colourful. It's only about 8 degrees here - can't believe it so cold still and I'm only now contemplating sowing outdoor sweetpeas because I have nothing else to grow up my permanent stakes and netting. I'll pop out there today and do it all the same in the hope of some 'tall' colour by late summer early autumn.
I think I'm just having a lazy attitude to feeling I'm always fighting the weather!
I just love annuals,there ive said it. couldnt imagine not looking through the seeds catalogues straight after christmas and planning for the summer.Sowing the seeds and nurtering them,then looking at my garden in full bloom and having the satisfaction that everything has been grown by myself. Being retired I obviously have the time to do it and keeps me busy through the worst months of the year.
...clearly, lots of people like their annuals... I think I prefer a mixed garden and am not keen on a front area given over to them entirely... as you often see, but I wouldn't want to be without a few Begonia's or Busy Lizzies here and there...
..tender perennials, used as annuals are another favourite, if they can be got ready early enough - such a long season.... Alonsoa 'Rebel' is my current 'hottie' from that section... I wonder if other gardeners like this sort of thing...
Annuals are great for new gardens, as they give almost instant impact, but I do like perennials, as you plant them once, and as long as the place and soil suits, them, you don't have to do it again. I love scented things, and if you can't eat it, and it doesn't smell, then it doesn't tend to get planted in my garden. There are a few exceptions, but not many.
Lots of people use their garden to park on, so it's gravelled, concreted, paved etc, so I think a few big pots or hanging baskets of colourful annuals helps soften things a bit and provides some welcome colour.
I save the pruning for that punkdoc...
Salino-that was quite a racy comment about boyfriends...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
This is the first year in about 5 where I haven't planted any annuals apart from sweet peas and cosmos. Mostly that's due to a lack of space and all window sils and two cold frames packed with veg seedlings for our allotment for our first whole year there.
I think the longer we live with our perennials, watching them go to sleep through the autumn and waiting patiently for signs of life in the spring, they become like good friends returning after a holiday. I think annuals are different in that respect, less of reunion with a much loved friend and more of a flirtatious glance shared with a beautiful stranger in a supermarket perhaps. Joyous too, of course, but different.
Is it just me- or is this thread getting a bit steamy...
Flirtatious glances...ooh err Matron....!
Salino and Leggi- cold showers now.....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I thought that was rather poetic
...ooh, Leggi, you and I appear to think on similar lines, in some respects...
...racy... I like that...