One had obviously gone for a pigeon Liri, and wrecked my plant inthe process. One of my favourites as well. To say I wasn't pleased is a massive understatement
Judging by the amount of feathers everywhere, I'm not sure the pigeon came off too well either
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Great photos from everyone again, the last few pages Ive made up my mind to get a white Dicentra and a tumbling ted not 100% where I can fit them but I'm blaming the great pictures here.
My Montana clematis has come out now, it's slowing getting there (fast in climber terms!)
Lovely garden photos. How nice to be able to grow the acers. It's too exposed here. They don't like wind.
this is my white Montana which I planted next to a Eucalyptus about 20 years ago and just left it to get on or give up because we were only visiting the place on weekends at that time. It just shows how hardy they are.
I aim to get a few more Pat - shorter, so better for windy gardens! I don't know which one that is as it was a random buy at the nursery, but it's come with me to several gardens. We used to have a little one called Pike's Pink in the garden round the corner. It was by the back door and had a really dense mound of short foliage. My older daughter, when she was little, loved to stroke it, and called it the hedgehog plant
Love the white montana. The girl across the road from me here as one - not flowering just yet, but it's stunning when it's performing.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
It's strange cos montana looks as tough as old boots, but it was killed in this garden (along with a dwarf rhododendron) by the really cold easterly wind we had a few years ago in late March. The clematis was already in leaf, and I think that was what did for it. Must get another...
My favourite pink isn't at all well behaved - it's Mrs Sinkins, the old-fashioned white one with the gorgeous scent. It sprawls all over the place! In my last garden (extremely windy) I had the hedgehog dianthus, D.erinaceus. Tiny little spiky mound with pink flowers.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
I must transplant my Dianthus plants and put them into the GH over winter. They might smell nice in there. I bought them in a punnet last spring and planted them in between various veggies to encourage bees, but your comments Obelixx make me think they'd be happier inside. Thanks for reminding me.
Montanas don't like late frosts after they've started into leaf and flower. I had one covering 15m of wire mesh fence and just about to burst into bloom when it was zapped by a heavy frost in April. Same thing happened to an alpina and 2 macropetalas. Hoping to have better success here but, of course, haven't found anyone selling alpinas or macropetalas. Don't want another montana as it's an awful lot of plant space for just 2 or 3 weeks of flower.
Same with dwarf dianthus. Love them but they didn't like Belgian winters. However, I brought a few I'd been coddling and planted them out last autumn and they're in full flower now. I'll take a pic when the rain stops.
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One had obviously gone for a pigeon Liri, and wrecked my plant inthe process. One of my favourites as well. To say I wasn't pleased is a massive understatement
Judging by the amount of feathers everywhere, I'm not sure the pigeon came off too well either
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Great photos from everyone again, the last few pages Ive made up my mind to get a white Dicentra and a tumbling ted not 100% where I can fit them but I'm blaming the great pictures here.
My Montana clematis has come out now, it's slowing getting there (fast in climber terms!)
Chris, that is a lovely area with the acers and the alliums.
Lovely garden photos. How nice to be able to grow the acers. It's too exposed here. They don't like wind.
this is my white Montana which I planted next to a Eucalyptus about 20 years ago and just left it to get on or give up because we were only visiting the place on weekends at that time. It just shows how hardy they are.
Fairy, I meant to say, yes I did think the leaves were carnation, but I think the dianthus is wonderful. What a brilliant colour.
I aim to get a few more Pat - shorter, so better for windy gardens! I don't know which one that is as it was a random buy at the nursery, but it's come with me to several gardens. We used to have a little one called Pike's Pink in the garden round the corner. It was by the back door and had a really dense mound of short foliage. My older daughter, when she was little, loved to stroke it, and called it the hedgehog plant
Love the white montana. The girl across the road from me here as one - not flowering just yet, but it's stunning when it's performing.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
It's strange cos montana looks as tough as old boots, but it was killed in this garden (along with a dwarf rhododendron) by the really cold easterly wind we had a few years ago in late March. The clematis was already in leaf, and I think that was what did for it. Must get another...
My favourite pink isn't at all well behaved - it's Mrs Sinkins, the old-fashioned white one with the gorgeous scent. It sprawls all over the place! In my last garden (extremely windy) I had the hedgehog dianthus, D.erinaceus. Tiny little spiky mound with pink flowers.
I must transplant my Dianthus plants and put them into the GH over winter. They might smell nice in there. I bought them in a punnet last spring and planted them in between various veggies to encourage bees, but your comments Obelixx make me think they'd be happier inside.
Thanks for reminding me.
Montanas don't like late frosts after they've started into leaf and flower. I had one covering 15m of wire mesh fence and just about to burst into bloom when it was zapped by a heavy frost in April. Same thing happened to an alpina and 2 macropetalas. Hoping to have better success here but, of course, haven't found anyone selling alpinas or macropetalas. Don't want another montana as it's an awful lot of plant space for just 2 or 3 weeks of flower.
Same with dwarf dianthus. Love them but they didn't like Belgian winters. However, I brought a few I'd been coddling and planted them out last autumn and they're in full flower now. I'll take a pic when the rain stops.
Maybe the frost is what caused my Montana Broughton Star to die, it was gorgeous last year. Didn't affect Marjorie though.