...the first photo you put up there, when I enlarge it, just looks fantastic, I love that very much....
..I know you like your Hosta's and they are so very pretty in the pictures... the green/yellow variegation is quite fetching...
..once again, I must say I love that hard landscaping in your front garden, the brick pillars and fences not to mention the pristine look of the surface area... very suited to container growing this... it might not be my way of doing it.. but I think it looks quite beautiful nonetheless... I would be quite proud of that look... and especially suitable for either older people who cannot always do the things we used to, or busy younger ones, with not much time...
Hi Verdun. You know your grasses very well, I am going to read, digest and possibly obtain some of your choices here. I have one proviso about any variegated plants in that they can possibly look unwell and even diseased - that white Liriope appeals not at all since to me it would fall within that caegory - to each their own as always in all things - one persons meat etc etc. Possibly the worst example to me are these "mottled" Willows with their green/white/pink foliage. Really good to hear from you and read your comments and thank you - keep them coming for me please.
Hi Salino. Thanks lass for your kind comments - Ref that front garden it was all a matter of making the best of believe me a very bad job - that front was a complete and utter mess with the Moles activities and I did what I could with it all - glad you like and thank you. Please do note my earlier comments to you in that I am always happy to chat to you and exchange thoughts - any time..
Hi all. I am going to call this " A trip into the (gardening) past - a plant medley". With the thoughts,comments and sugestions in this post it will hopefully be interesting but depending on your attitude it will either give you much to think ( and hopefuilly talk) about or indigestion. Either way yer 'tis. We are all so very interested in our garden and plants as we buy today from the Garden Centres etc but how many have a thought about their Histories? - where did they come from, when, who found them, their naming, all the many myths and fables which over the years have accumulated round them?.. So off we go and here may I ask who has ever read about the "Doctrine of Signatures"? - this was where all the early medics devised a system whereby they believed that a plant by its appearance showed exactly what illnesses it could cure - a good example being the Lungwort (Pulmonaria) with its green spotted white leaves signifying a lung disorder and so on - can be read about on Wikipedia whatever. Next on the list has anybody obtained a copy of the very comprehensive "Gerards Herbal" in which so many of these early plant introductions and all about them is written ( in old English). To come up to date some more of this same can be read of - did mention a book by Alice Coats called Flowers and their Histories. I do believe that all this is well worth while i n that it tells of the plants you are buyings histories, so much and many good talking points obtained thereby. Lastly and just to digress a little may I say that amongst my many interests I also have a great love of Pottery and Porcelain, particularly the 19th cent and earliert/later blue and white transfer printed items and the earlier/later hand painted floral items - the early and later Worcester, Derby, Coalport, Spode, Davenport etc etc. Do pse have a look and sure you will agree some really lovely things there. Nuff said except to give an example of the myths of these plants and here consider the Mandrake ( Mandragora) plant - believed to have magical qualities and therefore not to be pulled out of the ground by a human. What they did was loosen it in the ground, tie a rope from it to a dog and let that pull it out of the ground for them. Cranky? - well maybe but most interesting reading non the less. Do not pse blame me for any indigestion you may have after all that little lot. Will leave it with you - enjoy.
Hi Verdun. Ref those mottled Willows. Sure you are correct here in that your ones are shown at their best with most suitable and appropriate companions to complement and set them off.. to each their own as always but these not for me though. Your garden is as you like it with what you like in it and this I totally go along with. Enjoy.
....like you I'm not terribly keen with mottling on plants, whether Acer Flamingo or Berberis, some others maybe can't think offhand... they seem to look a bit ill to me... I prefer fresh green.. sometimes variegated plants look that way to me too, I prefer the yellow to be a deep colour not a washed out yellow, if you know what I mean...
..my interest in the history of plants tends towards roses more than any other... but I can't claim any great knowledge... it's just a passing interest... I sometimes like to know who the plant hunters and collectors were, past and present... as they so often get to attach their names to plants... just remember that when you see 'Sieboldii' as a suffix... this was the gentleman - P.F. von Siebold - who spent much time in Japan and introduced Knotweed to this country....on the plus side I suppose, as I know you like these... he also brought Hosta's to Europe......
...I should also add that you have some keen interests...pottery and porcelain and suchlike... I have a nice couple of Wedgewood's if that's of any interest...lol...probably not... but at least they are not 'seconds'...
...delightful Mr Syd.... anyone who has such in their home must be quite proud I should think... and houseproud too... I wouldn't want to break any...
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...the first photo you put up there, when I enlarge it, just looks fantastic, I love that very much....
..I know you like your Hosta's and they are so very pretty in the pictures... the green/yellow variegation is quite fetching...
..once again, I must say I love that hard landscaping in your front garden, the brick pillars and fences not to mention the pristine look of the surface area... very suited to container growing this... it might not be my way of doing it.. but I think it looks quite beautiful nonetheless... I would be quite proud of that look... and especially suitable for either older people who cannot always do the things we used to, or busy younger ones, with not much time...
Hi Verdun. You know your grasses very well, I am going to read, digest and possibly obtain some of your choices here. I have one proviso about any variegated plants in that they can possibly look unwell and even diseased - that white Liriope appeals not at all since to me it would fall within that caegory - to each their own as always in all things - one persons meat etc etc. Possibly the worst example to me are these "mottled" Willows with their green/white/pink foliage. Really good to hear from you and read your comments and thank you - keep them coming for me please.
Hi Salino. Thanks lass for your kind comments - Ref that front garden it was all a matter of making the best of believe me a very bad job - that front was a complete and utter mess with the Moles activities and I did what I could with it all - glad you like and thank you. Please do note my earlier comments to you in that I am always happy to chat to you and exchange thoughts - any time..
Hi all. I am going to call this " A trip into the (gardening) past - a plant medley". With the thoughts,comments and sugestions in this post it will hopefully be interesting but depending on your attitude it will either give you much to think ( and hopefuilly talk) about or indigestion. Either way yer 'tis. We are all so very interested in our garden and plants as we buy today from the Garden Centres etc but how many have a thought about their Histories? - where did they come from, when, who found them, their naming, all the many myths and fables which over the years have accumulated round them?.. So off we go and here may I ask who has ever read about the "Doctrine of Signatures"? - this was where all the early medics devised a system whereby they believed that a plant by its appearance showed exactly what illnesses it could cure - a good example being the Lungwort (Pulmonaria) with its green spotted white leaves signifying a lung disorder and so on - can be read about on Wikipedia whatever. Next on the list has anybody obtained a copy of the very comprehensive "Gerards Herbal" in which so many of these early plant introductions and all about them is written ( in old English). To come up to date some more of this same can be read of - did mention a book by Alice Coats called Flowers and their Histories. I do believe that all this is well worth while i n that it tells of the plants you are buyings histories, so much and many good talking points obtained thereby. Lastly and just to digress a little may I say that amongst my many interests I also have a great love of Pottery and Porcelain, particularly the 19th cent and earliert/later blue and white transfer printed items and the earlier/later hand painted floral items - the early and later Worcester, Derby, Coalport, Spode, Davenport etc etc. Do pse have a look and sure you will agree some really lovely things there. Nuff said except to give an example of the myths of these plants and here consider the Mandrake ( Mandragora) plant - believed to have magical qualities and therefore not to be pulled out of the ground by a human. What they did was loosen it in the ground, tie a rope from it to a dog and let that pull it out of the ground for them. Cranky? - well maybe but most interesting reading non the less. Do not pse blame me for any indigestion you may have after all that little lot. Will leave it with you - enjoy.
Hi Verdun. Ref those mottled Willows. Sure you are correct here in that your ones are shown at their best with most suitable and appropriate companions to complement and set them off.. to each their own as always but these not for me though. Your garden is as you like it with what you like in it and this I totally go along with. Enjoy.
....like you I'm not terribly keen with mottling on plants, whether Acer Flamingo or Berberis, some others maybe can't think offhand... they seem to look a bit ill to me... I prefer fresh green.. sometimes variegated plants look that way to me too, I prefer the yellow to be a deep colour not a washed out yellow, if you know what I mean...
..my interest in the history of plants tends towards roses more than any other... but I can't claim any great knowledge... it's just a passing interest... I sometimes like to know who the plant hunters and collectors were, past and present... as they so often get to attach their names to plants... just remember that when you see 'Sieboldii' as a suffix... this was the gentleman - P.F. von Siebold - who spent much time in Japan and introduced Knotweed to this country....on the plus side I suppose, as I know you like these... he also brought Hosta's to Europe...
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...I should also add that you have some keen interests...pottery and porcelain and suchlike... I have a nice couple of Wedgewood's if that's of any interest...lol...probably not... but at least they are not 'seconds'...
...delightful Mr Syd.... anyone who has such in their home must be quite proud I should think... and houseproud too... I wouldn't want to break any...