Gorgeous gardens, Nut, Lily P and Punkdoc. I feel the same as Fidget about box hedges, I only have one and it's not clipped at all in a wild area. Birds use it for nests along with the huge ivy next to it. I think punkdoc's garden style is the most like mine, but then I haven't seen it in real life. And I can't grow meconopsis - that's lovely Pd.
Punkdoc, sorry I missed your birthday because of our storm and burnt out phone lines. I hope you had a good day. Well, you must have done, I saw the Trentham Garden photos.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Thanks all, especially LP for the inspiration. We have loads of 'wildlife areas' (more like overgrown - watch the pond/bridge above disappear in nettles!) I love Monty's Jewel Garden and have just read his book. Inspired, I bought two smart 6ft willow obelisks, planted sweet peas on Sunday - rabbits enjoyed them! Back to the drawing board ........ trying Sarah Raven's wild jewel seed next so let's see if that floats their boat. Never mind, have invested in a beast of a strimmer so will be waging the war on nettles this weekend or should I have bought an air rifle??!!
Yeh Sam - rabbits love them. If you want sweet peas you need to grow them in a high raised bed or large container - well away from anything they can use as a step to get access. I had a giant pot about three feet high at my last house for growing them in.
An air rifle's a good idea though
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Mine were in the 'veg garden' (well, it was once) where they should have been safe. A wee lamb found it could shimmy through the gap between a post and the drystone wall that departed slightly from the vertical at that point. It demolished the lot If I hadn't found it, it would have been like Pooh and the Hunny, too fat to get back to Mum!
Just been out in the garden and walked into the most heavenly scent! I've tried to grow this for a number of years and gave up and stuffed it into a gap in my raised bed in the back alley and it's now decided to take off!! (Sorry, my pics have turned upside down!)
its a bit of a mouthful!... Zaluzianskya ovata! The soil in my raised bed is all the bits swept off the floor and its full of stones so I presume it likes poor dry soil... I tried growing it next to my back door as the perfume is really powerful but it didn't like it!... Tempted to dig it up with the soil from the raised bed but afraid I'll see it off!
Forgot to put, they only fully open when the daylight fades and the scent is really strong at night... The buds look like lots of match sticks during the day! ?
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Great piccies everyone, still cant post photos so dead jel of those who can.
Some pictures from garden today.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Gorgeous gardens, Nut, Lily P and Punkdoc. I feel the same as Fidget about box hedges, I only have one and it's not clipped at all in a wild area. Birds use it for nests along with the huge ivy next to it. I think punkdoc's garden style is the most like mine, but then I haven't seen it in real life. And I can't grow meconopsis - that's lovely Pd.
Punkdoc, sorry I missed your birthday because of our storm and burnt out phone lines. I hope you had a good day. Well, you must have done, I saw the Trentham Garden photos.
Thanks all, especially LP for the inspiration. We have loads of 'wildlife areas' (more like overgrown - watch the pond/bridge above disappear in nettles!) I love Monty's Jewel Garden and have just read his book. Inspired, I bought two smart 6ft willow obelisks, planted sweet peas on Sunday - rabbits enjoyed them! Back to the drawing board ........ trying Sarah Raven's wild jewel seed next so let's see if that floats their boat. Never mind, have invested in a beast of a strimmer so will be waging the war on nettles this weekend or should I have bought an air rifle??!!
Yeh Sam - rabbits love them. If you want sweet peas you need to grow them in a high raised bed or large container - well away from anything they can use as a step to get access. I had a giant pot about three feet high at my last house for growing them in.
An air rifle's a good idea though
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Lambs like them too
Mine were in the 'veg garden' (well, it was once
) where they should have been safe. A wee lamb found it could shimmy through the gap between a post and the drystone wall that departed slightly from the vertical at that point. It demolished the lot
If I hadn't found it, it would have been like Pooh and the Hunny, too fat to get back to Mum!
Just been out in the garden and walked into the most heavenly scent! I've tried to grow this for a number of years and gave up and stuffed it into a gap in my raised bed in the back alley and it's now decided to take off!! (Sorry, my pics have turned upside down!)
Each flower is beautiful. . . the red bud and red underside to the pristine white flower. . . I'm drooling
its a bit of a mouthful!... Zaluzianskya ovata! The soil in my raised bed is all the bits swept off the floor and its full of stones so I presume it likes poor dry soil... I tried growing it next to my back door as the perfume is really powerful but it didn't like it!... Tempted to dig it up with the soil from the raised bed but afraid I'll see it off!
Forgot to put, they only fully open when the daylight fades and the scent is really strong at night... The buds look like lots of match sticks during the day! ?
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think they sell them on crocus