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Your eight 'Desert Island Discs' plants

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  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,359

    Hmmm.

    • Hawthorn
    • Cornus kousa
    • Snowdrops
    • Liy of the valley
    • Astrantia
    • Ferns
    • Tricyrtis
    • Hellebores
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • Smoke bush Grace

    Weigelia Florida Variegata

    Agapanthus North Star 

    Crocosmia Lucifer

    Rubeckia Goldstunm

    All Clematis because I love them????

    Lobelia Tanias Sister

    There are so many lovely plants to choose from and thank God there is 

     

     

     

     

     

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,500

    I'm assuming the island will be a lush subtropical paradise with streams, waterfalls and plenty of edibles and drippy foliage etc etc - so that's sorted.

    In addition, I would have: primroses, violets,calendula, lavender, thalia daffodils, cosmos, roses and Californian poppies.

    The book would be something that tells me how to identify and use the plants on my island.

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Well now - daffodils, aquilegia, cosmos,Japanese anemone, bamboo ( in a huge tub - we don't want it all over the island ), pelargonium and tulips, tulips and more tulips, and finally clematis.

    To read, I'd take Reynard the fox/The Ghost Heath run by John Masefield.  And could I please be allowed a bar of fruit and nut as my extravagance.  Thank you.

  • You're smarter than me jo47, I should have gone for binoculars - trust me to think of my stomach!

  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,359

    My kids won one of those ENORMOUS 4.5 kilo Toblerones in a raffle a couple of years ago, it was so heavy! We gave away several of the chunks and still managed to completely stuff our faces over the course of a few weeks. 

    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • I didn't know you could get one that big - it's starting to play on my mind now.

  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,359

    It is a crazy amount of chocolate.

    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • Dog tooth violets, foxgloves, roses, geraniums, pawlonia, phlomis, persian ironwood, poppies

    Book would have to be 2 - Brown and White and Brown Mouse by Frank Jennens.

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