It's an artichoke and it produces a beautiful thistle-like flower beloved of bees. What a waste to eat it ! It would be like using the Mona Lisa to wrap your deep fried mars bar!
They're gazanias and they must have bright sun.
The geranium is beastly. It has roots about two ft deep when mature and insinuates itself by seeds into inaccessible places like the middle of an iris clump.
Its worst crime is that it stops you planting good geraniums because it's too difficult to identify it until you see the black spot on the leaves and then it's too late.
GRRR shouldn't have started me on this one. I find it difficult to cease the vitupueration
Aym, that artichoke has been there for well over ten years. It has survived builders rubble from next door' s roofers and looks wonderful when covered in snow. It's about the only plant I spray . I only do it when I see an ant farm. I'm not going to eat it so it doesn't matter. I cut off any unattractive or encroaching leaves. I read somewhere that you can eat the leaves but I've never tried them.
It does sort of move from here to there but only a few inches. Maybe the hard pruning I give it after flowering prevents it from becoming a nuisance or maybe it's the climate. Anyway, it's one of my favourite plants so don't diss it!
Sorry Aym, I have no idea! I got carried away with a OCD blitz of the lean-to back in May and threw away their label, they were a six pack with individual names and colours from Longacres in Bagshot. Very well grown!
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Biggest trailing fuchsia i've ever seen. It's as big as my hand!
Fortuitously the rose matches the snapdragons which were supposed to be pale lemon!
A real beauty, Mark.
It's an artichoke and it produces a beautiful thistle-like flower beloved of bees. What a waste to eat it ! It would be like using the Mona Lisa to wrap your deep fried mars bar!
They're gazanias and they must have bright sun.
The geranium is beastly. It has roots about two ft deep when mature and insinuates itself by seeds into inaccessible places like the middle of an iris clump.
Its worst crime is that it stops you planting good geraniums because it's too difficult to identify it until you see the black spot on the leaves and then it's too late.
GRRR shouldn't have started me on this one. I find it difficult to cease the vitupueration
Have you got #a lonely little petunias,in an onion patch#?
They're lovely aym. I decided to resist them this year as they are very high maintenance but I miss the smell of the dark ones
Aym 4th Petunia down....pink is so vibrant. Those spam tins don't always open cleanly with the key. Then they become a real hazard.
B3...so much happening in your l garden. It's fantastic.
Thanks Michael. I photographed the good bits. There's plenty of places where nothing's happening at all
Aym, that artichoke has been there for well over ten years. It has survived builders rubble from next door' s roofers and looks wonderful when covered in snow. It's about the only plant I spray . I only do it when I see an ant farm. I'm not going to eat it so it doesn't matter. I cut off any unattractive or encroaching leaves. I read somewhere that you can eat the leaves but I've never tried them.
It does sort of move from here to there but only a few inches. Maybe the hard pruning I give it after flowering prevents it from becoming a nuisance or maybe it's the climate. Anyway, it's one of my favourite plants so don't diss it!
Sorry Aym, I have no idea! I got carried away with a OCD blitz of the lean-to back in May and threw away their label, they were a six pack with individual names and colours from Longacres in Bagshot. Very well grown!
Aym my garden isn't that big. It's a long 1930s strip with a large-for-London front garden which I have not turned into a Zen car park,