Apologies for the photos, they were all the right way up on the laptop but seemed to twist when uploading. I will try to see if I can capture clearer close-ups next time. No offence taken
Thank you so much for your help. I feel like I’m learning so much from this forum… annnd have just applied for a level 2 in the principles of horticulture so hopefully at one point I will be able to return some of this help
1. I will try and get a better picture.
2. Nutcutlet, the leaves do look very begonia like to me, but the big lump is a tuber (apologies for the poor photo), which makes me think it’s eringium. The root is thick, like a carrot and the leaves are maybe two inches wide. This is great as I planted some last year and they didn’t come up at all. I wonder if I had planted it too deep and my recent digging of the beds turfed it up. Now I know what it is I will move it further back in the boarder.
3. Definitely think it’s Hypericum Androsaemum. This was rescued from a crack in the pavement at work and was in very heavy clay soil. It has been in a pot of fresh compost for a few days and already looks happier. I will accept it as a nice freebie and plant it in the front garden. As you can probably see from the pictures my garden is quite bare so I can use all the plants I can get at this stage!
Purple – Ceres and aym280, Aubretia is great. I am guessing as it is perennial too the whole hanging basket can be freshened up with some new soil after flowering and then tucked away to overwinter and bloom again next year?
White – Jinxy I think you are spot on with the white flowers being Allysum. The basket is the only ‘finished’ part of the garden, slightly cheating as it was provided potted up. I’m surprised how long it has flowered for, I think it will be hanging baskets as gifts from now on, no more cut flowers.
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Hi all,
Apologies for the photos, they were all the right way up on the laptop but seemed to twist when uploading. I will try to see if I can capture clearer close-ups next time. No offence taken
Thank you so much for your help. I feel like I’m learning so much from this forum… annnd have just applied for a level 2 in the principles of horticulture so hopefully at one point I will be able to return some of this help
1. I will try and get a better picture.
2. Nutcutlet, the leaves do look very begonia like to me, but the big lump is a tuber (apologies for the poor photo), which makes me think it’s eringium. The root is thick, like a carrot and the leaves are maybe two inches wide. This is great as I planted some last year and they didn’t come up at all. I wonder if I had planted it too deep and my recent digging of the beds turfed it up. Now I know what it is I will move it further back in the boarder.
3. Definitely think it’s Hypericum Androsaemum. This was rescued from a crack in the pavement at work and was in very heavy clay soil. It has been in a pot of fresh compost for a few days and already looks happier. I will accept it as a nice freebie and plant it in the front garden. As you can probably see from the pictures my garden is quite bare so I can use all the plants I can get at this stage!
Purple – Ceres and aym280, Aubretia is great. I am guessing as it is perennial too the whole hanging basket can be freshened up with some new soil after flowering and then tucked away to overwinter and bloom again next year?
White – Jinxy I think you are spot on with the white flowers being Allysum. The basket is the only ‘finished’ part of the garden, slightly cheating as it was provided potted up. I’m surprised how long it has flowered for, I think it will be hanging baskets as gifts from now on, no more cut flowers.
Hi Nat
My suggestion was bergenia not begonia but at 2'' wide I have seriously misjudged the scale
stick with erygnium. Which one do you think it is?
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I probably missed the history of the baskets but if they're all spring flowering what about Iberis sempervirens for the white one? Perennial candytuft
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Kitty, I have heard that necrophilia is dead boring
Which eryngium is this?
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I thought the rosette forming Eryngiums rarely set seed in the UK as they were late flowerers ......... ?
I've had a few perennial eryngiums set seed Jinxy, not the mad seeding of Eryngium giganteum (Miss Willmott's Ghost) but enough for a few new plants.
For some reason lost in time she's always called 'Miss Willmott's Goat' here
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