Last summer I started gardening, enjoyed whatever annuals, perennials I could grow by seeds, bulbs but by mid November, it all became so quiet and empty. I missed my garden so much that I started looking at winter interest plants and the fragrant ones. They all seem to be so much more expensive than the summer ones and to someone new to garden they dont look interesting at all when in tiny pot. For example when I looked at Mahonia, it seemed so spikey and boring!
Anyway I carpet bulbed the borders and over the year I collected many winter shrubs/plants mostly bought as little 9cm or 1-2 liter plants have been growing them up over the year. This year I will have plants to look forward in winter although small and hopefully in coming years I will have an all year round garden to enjoy.
Thank you aym280. I have learned the more i garden, more it goes away from neat look . Not sure how it will be 10 years down the time...
I had bought that spikey Mahonia as it is supposed to flower in winter with fragrant flowers. It is just 1.5 ft but have got buds now. I have started to love my winter plants.
Now if only Daphne odora A. also loved me as much as i loved her
Ooo - I've got one of those. Never knew what it was called - it was known as the 'yellow pea flowered thingy'. Mine came from a cutting of a plant that came from a cutting.
It's a lovely winter plant - in my winter garden, close to the west windows. Just by the winter honeysuckle. With a brachyglottis 'Sunshine' behind it to act as a wind break and provide the yellow splash for the rest of the year
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
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I know what you mean about never reaching perfection punkdoc.
I remember talking to the owner of Upton Grey :
http://www.gardenvisit.com/gardens/the_manor_house_upton_grey
about her immaculately restored "Jekyll" garden and she said her only regret is that she can't add anything, or take anything away.
Last summer I started gardening, enjoyed whatever annuals, perennials I could grow by seeds, bulbs but by mid November, it all became so quiet and empty. I missed my garden so much that I started looking at winter interest plants and the fragrant ones. They all seem to be so much more expensive than the summer ones and to someone new to garden they dont look interesting at all when in tiny pot. For example when I looked at Mahonia, it seemed so spikey and boring!
Anyway I carpet bulbed the borders and over the year I collected many winter shrubs/plants mostly bought as little 9cm or 1-2 liter plants have been growing them up over the year. This year I will have plants to look forward in winter although small and hopefully in coming years I will have an all year round garden to enjoy.
Thank you aym280. I have learned the more i garden, more it goes away from neat look
. Not sure how it will be 10 years down the time...
I had bought that spikey Mahonia as it is supposed to flower in winter with fragrant flowers. It is just 1.5 ft but have got buds now. I have started to love my winter plants.
Now if only Daphne odora A. also loved me as much as i loved her
Last edited: 07 November 2016 16:59:00
The winter Daphnes don't love me either Newb. I've convinced myself it's better to have a healthy well scented viburnum than a sick looking daphne
In the sticks near Peterborough
Coronilla Citrina looks lovely. You are an enabler!
Ooo - I've got one of those. Never knew what it was called - it was known as the 'yellow pea flowered thingy'. Mine came from a cutting of a plant that came from a cutting.
It's a lovely winter plant - in my winter garden, close to the west windows. Just by the winter honeysuckle. With a brachyglottis 'Sunshine' behind it to act as a wind break and provide the yellow splash for the rest of the year
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”