All your stars are great but must say my fave from this post is the Philadelphus
I have had one in my garden For a couple of years but this year was the first it actually came to anything and was lovely but all over now! The loveliness was brief!
Lizzie - laurentia is an annual for me - but flowers like mad til the first frosts. It used to be quite hard to find, but now the GCs over here have it quite frequently when the rest of their annuals come in. Its also called isotoma - just googled it, and T&M sell seeds, although i have never grown it from scratch myself
Beaus Mum, yes those lovely flowers only lasted two weeks, now gone in fact with the exception of the roses and hydrangea the garden has become, what I call, quiet. Waiting for rain!
Pete8, your Eryngium are absolutely stunning. I definitely want to get some next year.
No stars in my garden this year as had all kinds of problems with flies, bugs and everything that swarms and eats. So I've dug up an awful lot of established plants which just seem to be failing for one reason or another. Bit of a disappointing year so far when things should be at their peak.
However, I bought a couple of tiny little hanging terracotta things - hard to get anything small enough to actually sit well in them, but in the evening light they have a 'cute' factor with mini red petunias. I was also late doing baskets and managed to grab some cheap leftover wilting and damaged plants from B&Q and they are now coming along. So they are quite cheering.
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I have just planted another star that I'd never heard of before, Laurentia "Blue Star". Does anyone know it? Is it perennial? Never seen it in France.
All your stars are great but must say my fave from this post is the Philadelphus
I have had one in my garden For a couple of years but this year was the first it actually came to anything and was lovely but all over now! The loveliness was brief!
These are my stars right now!
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Wow, Sue that hydrangea is amazing
Lizzie - laurentia is an annual for me - but flowers like mad til the first frosts. It used to be quite hard to find, but now the GCs over here have it quite frequently when the rest of their annuals come in. Its also called isotoma - just googled it, and T&M sell seeds, although i have never grown it from scratch myself
Beaus Mum, yes those lovely flowers only lasted two weeks, now gone
in fact with the exception of the roses and hydrangea the garden has become, what I call, quiet. Waiting for rain!
Pete8, your Eryngium are absolutely stunning. I definitely want to get some next year.
No stars in my garden this year as had all kinds of problems with flies, bugs and everything that swarms and eats. So I've dug up an awful lot of established plants which just seem to be failing for one reason or another. Bit of a disappointing year so far when things should be at their peak.
However, I bought a couple of tiny little hanging terracotta things - hard to get anything small enough to actually sit well in them, but in the evening light they have a 'cute' factor with mini red petunias. I was also late doing baskets and managed to grab some cheap leftover wilting and damaged plants from B&Q and they are now coming along. So they are quite cheering.
Love that bottom one Yarrow, I've never seen terracotta hanging 'baskets', it's great