I like lysimachia, it's all so easy and grows in my problem clay bed. Have clethroides, pretty but tends to wander. I also like centranthus ruber, planted one plant years ago, but it quickly decided it didn't want to be in a bed with decent earth so it moved off to cracks in the walls and stone terraces, where I like it very much.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
HI B-L. Lovely Devon - have many happy memories of it especially around the Torquay - Newton Abbot - Teignmouth areas. Spent time there in the early 50's and went back just a few years ago - still much the same. That red Valerian is a handsome plant I think though the white flowered one looks a bit washed out. I am delighted to have bought that L.clethroides again as it is one of many plants I lost one way or another on moves - necessary moves I must say - redundancy etc. Similar habits but not to everyones taste I also like the Ligularias. Best wishes.
No trade so I am giving it best for the day. I do however have another very old plant ( first Elizabethan period) for you - great I think, a really potential but not overly alarming shocker - which might interest you if only for its name - I am only giving you one of its popular ones. You may possibly know it or of it but this will give you time to Google it and know what its all about etc. Called Grim the Collier - will leave that with you - you can if you wish work it all out. Not just pushing you this out of a book - I grew this plant many years ago so its from memory.
...you seem to like your orange flowers Keen...what on earth made you grow that..? not keen on Ligularia's and Lysimachia's.. anything that likes moist soil really... these days I like the hot dry garden style...shingle beds...plus some cottage gardening.. roses, perennials and shubs..that sort of thing....although I suppose they could be included in that...
Busy-Lizzie...I thought I had seen that before.. Rosemoor..been there several times...
...as for Red Valerian...I grew that in Cornwall but chose the darker red flowered one rather than the lighter pink or white...they both look a bit washed out to me...if that was Churchill's favourite flower...well... strange..is all I can say about that...I've been to his garden at Chartwell,..and lovely house there...a gorgeous setting...
... I lived in Brixham for a while..perhaps you know that too...? fond memories of Torquay...not so much Paignton...or Teignmouth...Newton Abbot..? well they have a racecourse..and a plant centre...Bovey Tracey, nearby, is quite nice too...
Grim the Collier, Hieracium aurantiacum, dear me what a terrrible thug that is. I have never planted it but somehow it has appeared and even with liberal amounts of Verdone weedkiller, it is as bad as Clover in the 'lawn'. The other Hieracium which can be a real seed weed is. H. maculatum, the one which looks as if someone has dripped black ink on the leaves.
A couple of fill the space rapidly plants for me are Ceratostigma plumbaginoides, but despite filling a huge space, I cannot get pieces of it to grow elsewhere and Perovskia atriplicifolia,Russian Sage. New pieces are now coming up in the lawn from the border where it is planted.
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Hi Keen. It was in Devon, may have been Rosemoor.
I like lysimachia, it's all so easy and grows in my problem clay bed. Have clethroides, pretty but tends to wander. I also like centranthus ruber, planted one plant years ago, but it quickly decided it didn't want to be in a bed with decent earth so it moved off to cracks in the walls and stone terraces, where I like it very much.
HI B-L. Lovely Devon - have many happy memories of it especially around the Torquay - Newton Abbot - Teignmouth areas. Spent time there in the early 50's and went back just a few years ago - still much the same. That red Valerian is a handsome plant I think though the white flowered one looks a bit washed out. I am delighted to have bought that L.clethroides again as it is one of many plants I lost one way or another on moves - necessary moves I must say - redundancy etc. Similar habits but not to everyones taste I also like the Ligularias. Best wishes.
No trade so I am giving it best for the day. I do however have another very old plant ( first Elizabethan period) for you - great I think, a really potential but not overly alarming shocker - which might interest you if only for its name - I am only giving you one of its popular ones. You may possibly know it or of it but this will give you time to Google it and know what its all about etc. Called Grim the Collier - will leave that with you - you can if you wish work it all out. Not just pushing you this out of a book - I grew this plant many years ago so its from memory.
...you seem to like your orange flowers Keen...what on earth made you grow that..? not keen on Ligularia's and Lysimachia's.. anything that likes moist soil really... these days I like the hot dry garden style...shingle beds...plus some cottage gardening.. roses, perennials and shubs..that sort of thing....although I suppose they could be included in that...
Busy-Lizzie...I thought I had seen that before.. Rosemoor..been there several times...
and very nice it is too....lovely photo....
...as for Red Valerian...I grew that in Cornwall but chose the darker red flowered one rather than the lighter pink or white...they both look a bit washed out to me...if that was Churchill's favourite flower...well... strange..is all I can say about that...
I've been to his garden at Chartwell,..and lovely house there...a gorgeous setting...
... I lived in Brixham for a while..perhaps you know that too...? fond memories of Torquay...not so much Paignton...or Teignmouth...Newton Abbot..? well they have a racecourse..and a plant centre...Bovey Tracey, nearby, is quite nice too...
bi for now...
Grim the Collier, Hieracium aurantiacum, dear me what a terrrible thug that is. I have never planted it but somehow it has appeared and even with liberal amounts of Verdone weedkiller, it is as bad as Clover in the 'lawn'. The other Hieracium which can be a real seed weed is. H. maculatum, the one which looks as if someone has dripped black ink on the leaves.
A couple of fill the space rapidly plants for me are Ceratostigma plumbaginoides, but despite filling a huge space, I cannot get pieces of it to grow elsewhere and Perovskia atriplicifolia,Russian Sage. New pieces are now coming up in the lawn from the border where it is planted.
Busy lovely to see you
Thanks Verdun, but then I am a woman!
Hi Verdun. CREEP.!.