Brenda, are you quite sure it wasn't Dicentra formosa? Your description sounds so like it and it is a plant that used be around more 'then' than now.
My mum used to have pyrethrums, they were lovely bright pink and red daisy flowers that turned up every summer but I can't recall having seen any growing anywhere for years.
Hogweed, I'd forgotten the houseplants and the macrame. Every office had to have a fossilized African violet. It was the law!
Lou, I grew a bright scarlet dahlia with small pompoms in a container last year. It was huge and I liked it. There was even some pollen for the bees just before each flower went over. I replanted it yesterday. Admittedly, there are some - OMG who'd buy that? - varieties too.
I am interested in your black hollyhocks GWRS - post a picture if you have one or perhaps later in the season as they flower. I just grew white ones last year - this year red & white - they are so reminiscent of cottage gardens - I love them.
I remember in the 1980's every other garden seemed to have those shrubby Lavatera plants. I find the best place to find old fashioned style gardens are housing estates from the 1920's and 30's. Indicator plants are mature Prunus Kanzan, Red Hot Pokers and beds of HT roses around a lawn.
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Brenda, are you quite sure it wasn't Dicentra formosa? Your description sounds so like it and it is a plant that used be around more 'then' than now.
My mum used to have pyrethrums, they were lovely bright pink and red daisy flowers that turned up every summer but I can't recall having seen any growing anywhere for years.
And back in the 70s every house had at least 1 spider plant, 1 cheese plant and a wandering sailor, some if not all in macramé pot holders!
Pom pom dhalias phtttttttttt. I was horrified to see them on Gardners World this evening.
Almost as horrific as my spelling.
Hogweed, I'd forgotten the houseplants and the macrame. Every office had to have a fossilized African violet. It was the law!
Lou, I grew a bright scarlet dahlia with small pompoms in a container last year. It was huge and I liked it. There was even some pollen for the bees just before each flower went over. I replanted it yesterday. Admittedly, there are some - OMG who'd buy that? - varieties too.
Well the law in my house is that we should all grow what the hell we like even if nobody else likes it
I too have a fossilised african violet on my window sill, it seems to be the only indoor plant I can't kill.
We have the odd hollyhock at the bottom of garden , infact bought some black hollyhock seeds this year
Yes still got some saxifrage as well , eventually everything comes back into fashion but agree with Lou12 , grow what you like
I am interested in your black hollyhocks GWRS - post a picture if you have one or perhaps later in the season as they flower. I just grew white ones last year - this year red & white - they are so reminiscent of cottage gardens - I love them.
I remember in the 1980's every other garden seemed to have those shrubby Lavatera plants. I find the best place to find old fashioned style gardens are housing estates from the 1920's and 30's. Indicator plants are mature Prunus Kanzan, Red Hot Pokers and beds of HT roses around a lawn.
Runnybreak you got me remembering , we always went to Canon Hill park in Birmingham as they would have Tulip festivale
My mum was a really good gardener and we had a large garden , compared with new houses these days
Happy days from 50+ years ago