When I first got into heucheras (from an article in a garden magazine IIRC) the only one I could find locally was Palace Purple (booooring!) so I had to buy some purple ones online from Cotswold Garden Flowers. Then over the years I started to see more purple varieties in local garden centres and each time I snapped them up. But now I've had to start restraining myself from instinctively putting one in my trolley whenever I see a nice purple/silver one, as I have 9 already ,
Yep ZombieGardener there are 4 cats in our house (hence the user name, which dates back to my first (horsey) forum use approx 10 years ago when I had 5 cats ). I find cats make very photogenic subjects for garden photos
Those pictures were taken with flash last night after all the rain. I will try again today. The yellow one is much more yellow than it shows up here. They were tree lilies I bought three years ago from Garden bargains.com
The yellow ones I put straight in the ground. The others went in pots first. First year they all grew to about 5ft. After that, the ones in the ground grew bigger and stronger, but the ones in the pot were going downhill, so last year I moved them to the dog run.
The yellow ones had a good top dressing of year old horse manure, in March. They are now about 7ft tall, and have stems like broom handles. No staking.
The red ones are only about 5ft tall. I dont have the individual names but various companies seem to have tree lilies or giant lilies in various colours. Each firm seems to have a different name for very similar looking plants. T&M call them Yellow rocket. There is a yellow and red stripey one but that appears to be going downhill. A lot have disapeared, and the others don't look as healthy and nowhere near as big.
I think the one with the cat drinking from the water butt would make a winning competition photo you couldnt pose that what great puss pictures I my self have three cats they like chasing the sun round the garden and a black doggie who follows me round as I garden the pets try to be the star in the garden dont they
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When I first got into heucheras (from an article in a garden magazine IIRC) the only one I could find locally was Palace Purple (booooring!) so I had to buy some purple ones online from Cotswold Garden Flowers. Then over the years I started to see more purple varieties in local garden centres and each time I snapped them up. But now I've had to start restraining myself from instinctively putting one in my trolley whenever I see a nice purple/silver one, as I have 9 already
,
Yep ZombieGardener there are 4 cats in our house (hence the user name, which dates back to my first (horsey) forum use approx 10 years ago when I had 5 cats
). I find cats make very photogenic subjects for garden photos
And of course
and
`the star at the moment are the tree lilies. The scent reaches the house 10 yards away.
Love your cats Thecatsmother. I have four cats.
Stunning Lilies Fidget
Those pictures were taken with flash last night after all the rain. I will try again today. The yellow one is much more yellow than it shows up here. They were tree lilies I bought three years ago from Garden bargains.com
The yellow ones I put straight in the ground. The others went in pots first. First year they all grew to about 5ft. After that, the ones in the ground grew bigger and stronger, but the ones in the pot were going downhill, so last year I moved them to the dog run.
The yellow ones had a good top dressing of year old horse manure, in March. They are now about 7ft tall, and have stems like broom handles. No staking.
The red ones are only about 5ft tall. I dont have the individual names but various companies seem to have tree lilies or giant lilies in various colours. Each firm seems to have a different name for very similar looking plants. T&M call them Yellow rocket. There is a yellow and red stripey one but that appears to be going downhill. A lot have disapeared, and the others don't look as healthy and nowhere near as big.
You can see that the star one is much weaker than the red one and not as tall.
I sprayed them with provado as soon as I saw the first lily beetle. It was more than eight weeks ago so should be safe for bees now.
The bees are too busy on the teasels and lavender to bother with the lilies.
I think the one with the cat drinking from the water butt would make a winning competition photo you couldnt pose that what great puss pictures I my self have three cats they like chasing the sun round the garden and a black doggie who follows me round as I garden
the pets try to be the star in the garden dont they