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What's the star in your garden right now

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  • Beaus MumBeaus Mum Posts: 3,550

    Wow that was a bargain image I have heard of dobies garden centres but we don't have them around here, we are all Wyevale 

     

  • davids10davids10 Posts: 894

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    half the dahlias are flourishing, half are rubbish-things that make you go hmmmm?

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     the variegated basil doesnt flower so its perfect all season

     

  • artjakartjak Posts: 4,167

    FG, at the moment, each morning I go out to forage from my 2 plants for 2 or 3 strawberries for breakfast with red gooseberries and Greek yoghurtimage

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,099

    Very satisfying art! image 

    These everbearing ones have tons of flowers so they seem to be living up  to their name. The runners are growing at a fair rate too. I can highly recommend them image

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • BerkleyBerkley Posts: 431
    I'm glad you like my agapanthus. They have been in the same pots for five years (they do much better when tightly packed) and improve every time they flower. I feed them regularly in the Summer then let them dry in the garage, cut off their leaves, dampen them about once a month - and off they go again in the Spring!



    Weeks and weeks of pleasure!
  • Orchid LadyOrchid Lady Posts: 5,800

    Thanks for those tips Berkley, mine are new this year and planted in the border, 2 out of 3 have flowered but only 1 flower each. Mi am digging them out when they have finished and putting them in a pot, all 3 in one big-ish pot (small enough to keep them compact and be lifted but big enough so they can grow a bit).

  • BizzieBBizzieB Posts: 885

    Catherine, that hollyhock is amazing, sure to grow to be a winner image

     OL, ah, agapantha, it was the way the plants had that frill of leaves and so many blooms (thought it wasn't an aster, lol)

    Berkley, thank you  for that info. Mine are 

    only a year old, no flowers, and can see that they will have to go into one pot to get such a good show of flowers as yours.

     

     

    What wonderful stars we have image

  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,339

    I'm not really a fan of big and blousey but have to say it's doing it's bit- 

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     this is more my style - Agastache Black Adder- 

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    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • Beaus MumBeaus Mum Posts: 3,550

    Pete Love your blousey! Blooming gorgeous and what a colour, looks perfect in that pot image

  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,339

    Thanks BM - I have to agree, but still not my kinda plant. I think I got it free a few yrs ago and each year when I see new buds appearing from the corm I feel obliged to pot it up. Will probably outlast me image


    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
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