Oh stoppit Hosta!!! I considered, I pondered, I usually say teepee ... just this once I say wigwam and you pounce on me ............ thank goodness you've lost all that weight This time last year I'd have been squashed
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Lou, my jasmine was in a large pot for a few years and hasn't flowered, so I planted it out in a bed this summer with a big arch to scramble up to see if that makes a difference I've told it to get its act together for next year, or its definetly for the chop!
My all time favourite flowers are lupine. They have such a gorgeous scent that always reminds me of my childhood. Mine come up every year and some have been doing so for about 5-6 years now. Another favourite, tulips. Only just started growing them a few years ago, but keep buying more and more every year, just can't resist. The best thing I did this year is grow dahlias from seed. Just about every seed germinated and some I put into the cold frame got frosted but still managed to survive. This year I grew the 'collarette' ones and also some pompom ones. I recommend growing them from seed, they were dead easy and I had about 120 plants to plant. Not sure wether to leave them in the ground (obviously they don't have tubers) or just mulch them and hope they over winter, or just use them as bedding plants.
This is my first time on the forum, hope you're not too bored. Loved reading all of your comments.
It seems Monty Don was not alone with his dislike of begonias. I really dislike those French marigolds and small begonia bedding plants. The big begonias look like cheap bling jewellery, the colours are to me like the dreadful artifically dyed ones .
I do grow the new stronger varieties of petunias as bedding plants. Some have lovely veined petals .
I failed completely with gentians in my alpine bed.
I will keep trying tp grow lobelia cardinalis in pots where it is easier to protect them from slugs .
Honeysuckle does not seem to thrive here.
Scabious don't seem to be thrive here either. Ah! the RHS suggests lime to neutral that might explain why they are not doing well.
Many plant lables do not make it entirely clear about how important hardiness and soil chemistry is to growing many plants. They just want to show you a lovely looking plant.
I shall be moving gardens and going from deep, fertile alkaline loam which gets plenty of rain but also heavy frosts to unknown soil except that it will be neutral to acid as there's a magnolia. I'm expecting to be able to grow lots of plants that have been off the menu here so I'm expecting to experiment..
However, there will be no begonias of any description, nor impatiens, as I find them nasty and plasticky. No Victorian bedding, no golden rod and no euphorbia as I really don't like them.
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Wigwam? or teepee?
Leggin' it now.
Oh stoppit Hosta!!!
I considered, I pondered, I usually say teepee ... just this once I say wigwam and you pounce on me ............ thank goodness you've lost all that weight 
This time last year I'd have been squashed 
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I won't save seed from snapdragons they were rubbish,buy new.
I definitely have cosmos,pot marigolds,laurentia.
tee hee.
I saw a bit of the "'lympics" the other night. Laura Trott's Omnium.
commentator :
" Hence why" and " building to a crescendo" in the space of 10 seconds.
That was enough for me. OFF.
Not to mention one of the commentator's repeated confusion of Grenada with Granada
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Lou, my jasmine was in a large pot for a few years and hasn't flowered, so I planted it out in a bed this summer with a big arch to scramble up to see if that makes a difference I've told it to get its act together for next year, or its definetly for the chop!
My all time favourite flowers are lupine. They have such a gorgeous scent that always reminds me of my childhood. Mine come up every year and some have been doing so for about 5-6 years now. Another favourite, tulips. Only just started growing them a few years ago, but keep buying more and more every year, just can't resist. The best thing I did this year is grow dahlias from seed. Just about every seed germinated and some I put into the cold frame got frosted but still managed to survive. This year I grew the 'collarette' ones and also some pompom ones. I recommend growing them from seed, they were dead easy and I had about 120 plants to plant. Not sure wether to leave them in the ground (obviously they don't have tubers) or just mulch them and hope they over winter, or just use them as bedding plants.
This is my first time on the forum, hope you're not too bored. Loved reading all of your comments.
sue
It seems Monty Don was not alone with his dislike of begonias. I really dislike those French marigolds and small begonia bedding plants. The big begonias look like cheap bling jewellery, the colours are to me like the dreadful artifically dyed ones .
I do grow the new stronger varieties of petunias as bedding plants. Some have lovely veined petals .
I failed completely with gentians in my alpine bed.
I will keep trying tp grow lobelia cardinalis in pots where it is easier to protect them from slugs .
Honeysuckle does not seem to thrive here.
Scabious don't seem to be thrive here either. Ah! the RHS suggests lime to neutral that might explain why they are not doing well.
Many plant lables do not make it entirely clear about how important hardiness and soil chemistry is to growing many plants. They just want to show you a lovely looking plant.
'You must have some bread with it me duck!'
I shall be moving gardens and going from deep, fertile alkaline loam which gets plenty of rain but also heavy frosts to unknown soil except that it will be neutral to acid as there's a magnolia. I'm expecting to be able to grow lots of plants that have been off the menu here so I'm expecting to experiment..
However, there will be no begonias of any description, nor impatiens, as I find them nasty and plasticky. No Victorian bedding, no golden rod and no euphorbia as I really don't like them.