the lily thanx you lesley-i bought it in a three inch pot at the grocery store a couple of years ago-it had the very informative label-red lily. i do love grocery store plants.
Life is like a box of chocolates The main thing is that you knew how to look after it. You don't have to have a name to be gorgeous. Keep buying at the grocery store
Today star is a rose. Not even growing in my garden really(well the roots aren't).
Many years ago I planted some Rosa filipes seed. From this I raised three plants. Along came the Michael Fishes hurricane, which decimated the prewar orchard next door. We cleared a lot of the debris with chain saw and bonfires, , but there was a huge open bit. In It I planted the three seedlings, in a triangle 2 metre apart. Gradually the wild wood took over,a seedling cherry went up to 50 feet, and the rose chased after it. One of the seedlings flowers a week later than the other two, it has pale pink buds, opening to a larger flower than the type. I took hardwood cuttings and planted one next to a hawthorn.... and now it covers the hawthorn, is up the cherry, is threatening the Magnolia grandiflora Exmouth, and looks gorgeous. The largest Rose in Britain is running up a beech at Kiftsgate, but I bet mine is the largest in Town.
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That colour is dazzling david.s
the lily thanx you lesley-i bought it in a three inch pot at the grocery store a couple of years ago-it had the very informative label-red lily. i do love grocery store plants.
Life is like a box of chocolates
The main thing is that you knew how to look after it. You don't have to have a name to be gorgeous. Keep buying at the grocery store
Today star is a rose. Not even growing in my garden really(well the roots aren't).
Many years ago I planted some Rosa filipes seed. From this I raised three plants. Along came the Michael Fishes hurricane, which decimated the prewar orchard next door. We cleared a lot of the debris with chain saw and bonfires, , but there was a huge open bit. In It I planted the three seedlings, in a triangle 2 metre apart. Gradually the wild wood took over,a seedling cherry went up to 50 feet, and the rose chased after it. One of the seedlings flowers a week later than the other two, it has pale pink buds, opening to a larger flower than the type. I took hardwood cuttings and planted one next to a hawthorn.... and now it covers the hawthorn, is up the cherry, is threatening the Magnolia grandiflora Exmouth, and looks gorgeous. The largest Rose in Britain is running up a beech at Kiftsgate, but I bet mine is the largest in Town.
The rose over the hawthorn next to the house.
close up.
Through the magnolia
View from the bedroom window.
My tomatoes are today's (and yesterday's) star, although not technically in the garden as they are in the GH.
My Iceberg and Geum are still close second though
Some gorgeous colours and flowers everyone.
My seed grown Lupins and Delphinums
Well done ,Matt. The slugs ate mine.
Without doubt - 'the Duchess'....she has finally made an appearance
bit blurry unfortunately
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...