I tried Black Prince but the flowers were disappointing and he turned up his toes the following winter. Omoshiro has large flowers with deep pinky red margins that will go with your pink stuff and not clash. I grow mine as a group 3 as its top gets blasted by wind and/or frost in winter but it puts on a good show every year.
If you want a strong, deep pinky red, go for Princess Diana which is very happy here and always covered in flowers all summer long until quite late on.
No gardening here. We have a short sunny spell at the mo between heavy sleet showers and with hooly winds all day so I'm staying tucked up and doing my patchwork homework after getting frozen yesterday. Started off clearing dead growth on perennials and forking up huge nettle runs (again) before getting rained indoors to pot up some bulbs I found lurking in the garage. Fingers crossed they'll be OK.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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Tidied up a bit more and gathered and chopped up more sticks. Glad I did because I found my new camassias coming up under a heap of stuff and one bent and yellowed by a big clod of earth.
I distributed lots of straw from my hen's bedding around the garden a few months back thinking it would break down. None of it has, and it looks a right mess, so think I might need to gather it back up and bin or bury it
Did a small amount of thinking, to see if I can cram a new wishlist of perennials into the garden and worked out where I can move the agapanthus in order for them to be fed easily from a path...also trying to quash the sudden requirement for two large hydrangeas
Raining now but been jolly nice all day, in a cold but sunny way
Like all three of your suggestions re clematis so watch this space. Have sown my first seeds today, its so exciting, never get bored of the whole germination process. Didiscus Blue Lace, Achillea The Pearl, Snapdragon Twinny Rose and Heliotrope are tucked up the propagator. Everything in the garden and greenhouse seems to moving on apace all we need now is some nice warm weather.
Patchwork class today so no gardening. I have discovered life is too short to quilt a patchwork table mat by hand.
We've had strong winds and hail most of the day anyway but it's sunny now. Maybe it'll stay fine for a bit of gardening tomorrow. I want to clear frozen cavolo nero from our veg patch and hoe it ready for onion sets.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
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Yesterday I finished weeding the lower middle bed and planted the rest of the Bellis daisies. Pruned one rose. Got in 5 barrows of logs.
Today it is raining. Glad OH mowed the lawn the other day, it's squelching today.
Yvie - have you looked at Omoshiro? http://www.clematis.hull.ac.uk/new-clemdetail.cfm?dbkey=1545
I tried Black Prince but the flowers were disappointing and he turned up his toes the following winter. Omoshiro has large flowers with deep pinky red margins that will go with your pink stuff and not clash. I grow mine as a group 3 as its top gets blasted by wind and/or frost in winter but it puts on a good show every year.
If you want a strong, deep pinky red, go for Princess Diana which is very happy here and always covered in flowers all summer long until quite late on.
No gardening here. We have a short sunny spell at the mo between heavy sleet showers and with hooly winds all day so I'm staying tucked up and doing my patchwork homework after getting frozen yesterday. Started off clearing dead growth on perennials and forking up huge nettle runs (again) before getting rained indoors to pot up some bulbs I found lurking in the garage. Fingers crossed they'll be OK.
No gardening today. Strong, freezing wind and louring skies. The cat and I are staying in!
Tidied up a bit more and gathered and chopped up more sticks. Glad I did because I found my new camassias coming up under a heap of stuff and one bent and yellowed by a big clod of earth.
I distributed lots of straw from my hen's bedding around the garden a few months back thinking it would break down. None of it has, and it looks a right mess, so think I might need to gather it back up and bin or bury it
Did a small amount of thinking, to see if I can cram a new wishlist of perennials into the garden and worked out where I can move the agapanthus in order for them to be fed easily from a path...also trying to quash the sudden requirement for two large hydrangeas
Raining now but been jolly nice all day, in a cold but sunny way
Yvie - take a look at Rouge Cardinal as well. It might be closer to what you want
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Gorgeous day, blue skies and warm sun. No wind So I successfully pollarded my Eucalyptus gunnii and then split an ostrich fern for underneath.
Hope it goes well there, ground gets very dry in warmer months and couldn't think what else might tolerate a back corner
Really cold wind, put me off gardening.
Like all three of your suggestions re clematis so watch this space. Have sown my first seeds today, its so exciting, never get bored of the whole germination process. Didiscus Blue Lace, Achillea The Pearl, Snapdragon Twinny Rose and Heliotrope are tucked up the propagator. Everything in the garden and greenhouse seems to moving on apace all we need now is some nice warm weather.
I've looked out the window and spoken kind words to the seeds germinating on the windowsill. That's pretty much it.
Patchwork class today so no gardening. I have discovered life is too short to quilt a patchwork table mat by hand.
We've had strong winds and hail most of the day anyway but it's sunny now. Maybe it'll stay fine for a bit of gardening tomorrow. I want to clear frozen cavolo nero from our veg patch and hoe it ready for onion sets.