I did indeed Lantana - that was a couple of weks ago in Glen Callater, nearGlenshee, on my way to do Tolmount. It was a glorious day. The rest of the photos are on the camera thread.
Loads of grouse there at this time of year as there's loads of heather!
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I think the trouble I have with heathers , is that I started working in a garden centre in 1979 when everyone was having " heathers and conifers" and , being in Scotland, lots of tourists bought heathers to take home.
We sold millions of them . " too much of a good thing........."
I'm still not keen on "dwarf" conifers, for the same reason.
I've never bought one, and have never had one in any garden I've ever owned, nor do I expect that to change.
I plant snowdrops around my hostas and I find it works well. The bulbs are small and they flower while the hostas are dormant. The hosta leaves then cover the dying remains of snowdrop leaves when they start growing.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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Are you one of these Verd?
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I did indeed Lantana - that was a couple of weks ago in Glen Callater, nearGlenshee, on my way to do Tolmount. It was a glorious day. The rest of the photos are on the camera thread.
Loads of grouse there at this time of year as there's loads of heather!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I think the trouble I have with heathers , is that I started working in a garden centre in 1979 when everyone was having " heathers and conifers" and , being in Scotland, lots of tourists bought heathers to take home.
We sold millions of them . " too much of a good thing........."
I'm still not keen on "dwarf" conifers, for the same reason.
I've never bought one, and have never had one in any garden I've ever owned, nor do I expect that to change.
Even Adrian Bloom has swapped his dwarf conifers and heathers for grasses and perennials in his Foggy Bottom
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I plant snowdrops around my hostas and I find it works well. The bulbs are small and they flower while the hostas are dormant. The hosta leaves then cover the dying remains of snowdrop leaves when they start growing.
you can still see " dwarf" conifers towering over 70s bungalows
Verdun - I'm with you on properly maintained heathers. . . . giving lots of colour just now.
Hostas in pots get moved and replaced with pots of spring flowers.
Or hacked to blazes by their front doors, Hosta! You can always tell those houses at a distance too- they have the front room lights on all day...
No such thing as a dwarf conifer.
I don't like roses or heathers
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I have four heathers providing lots of colour just now.
They are properly maintained. Well trimmed in early spring and have lasted forty years.