Oh, you mean there will be a gap there? Fair one...
There's a buddlea there at the moment but I want to move it to a sunnier spot...but first I have to move a rose
I do have a lot of bulbs...I could plant tulips in a pond pot I suppose. I'll have a think about it as I suppose I wouldn't get the spring advantage of the sarco what with cutting it back and all.
When it is growing strongly, if you cut a couple of flowering stems they will fill a room with scent for days! In the middle of winter it is just the most delicious thing you can have.
Verd - our soil is better at this time of year than spring for planting out. Mine was a decent size, and it's in a sheltered spot, so it should be fine despite the winter rain we'll get. I have a regime when planting too - some grit and plenty of compost mixed into the area
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I've got two plants near my front door and every winter the lovely perfume surprises me when it first appears. It lasts a long time too. You will enjoy it when the plant is large enough to flower.
If it's a sheltered seating area it will be a lovely spot to grow the plant.
Sheltered for you that is rather than the plant!
Nothing like that first day in late winter / early spring when the sun is shining and it's warm & dry enough to sit with the first alfresco coffee of the year (albeit wrapped up in scarves, gloves and hats). Might even work up a bit of a sweat doing some digging....
Can't wait!
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
Meant to say - if the bits you're pruning off look nice and green and alive why not try sticking then in some gritty compost. I think they take quite easily from cuttings.
Might be the wrong time of year (might be the perfect time - I don't know) but nothing to lose & better to give it a go than throw them on the compost heap
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
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Oh, you mean there will be a gap there? Fair one...
There's a buddlea there at the moment but I want to move it to a sunnier spot...but first I have to move a rose
I do have a lot of bulbs...I could plant tulips in a pond pot I suppose. I'll have a think about it as I suppose I wouldn't get the spring advantage of the sarco what with cutting it back and all.
Many thanks
When it is growing strongly, if you cut a couple of flowering stems they will fill a room with scent for days! In the middle of winter it is just the most delicious thing you can have.
Yes, I think I might do that Posy
A nice idea.
Haha
You have a chain too? I can't plant anything without moving 15 other things first.
If I was more disciplined I'd have a holding area, but of course it would just get filled
Verd - our soil is better at this time of year than spring for planting out. Mine was a decent size, and it's in a sheltered spot, so it should be fine despite the winter rain we'll get. I have a regime when planting too - some grit and plenty of compost mixed into the area
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Tetley, I'm not a proper gardener, I just like growing plants and nurturing wildlife
I'd plant a sarcococca out as soon as a space was ready. Queue problems here as well
Not sure I'd plant one by a seating area though, its flowering season is all wrong for much sitting out
In the sticks near Peterborough
I've got two plants near my front door and every winter the lovely perfume surprises me when it first appears. It lasts a long time too. You will enjoy it when the plant is large enough to flower.
If it's a sheltered seating area it will be a lovely spot to grow the plant.
Sheltered for you that is rather than the plant!
Nothing like that first day in late winter / early spring when the sun is shining and it's warm & dry enough to sit with the first alfresco coffee of the year (albeit wrapped up in scarves, gloves and hats). Might even work up a bit of a sweat doing some digging....
Can't wait!
Meant to say - if the bits you're pruning off look nice and green and alive why not try sticking then in some gritty compost. I think they take quite easily from cuttings.
Might be the wrong time of year (might be the perfect time - I don't know) but nothing to lose & better to give it a go than throw them on the compost heap