Oh what a joy that was. the Garden Centre looked spectacular. Here are my purchases including two lovely phloxes - the purple one is called Dwarf carpet and the pink and white one "candy stripe".
Yes I only needed 86p from my purse! Mixture of Xmas present vouchers and earnings from my "Gardening journalism" as my friend calls my writing to the letters pages of gardening mags! My friend who took me was full of admiration at my business like approach as I had a mental list of what i wanted to buy so steered her from one dept to the next with no dithering. My mental arithmetic is still exceptional so i knew when I had to stop buying.
TY Joyce. I have been on the internet and found lots of lovelu white flowered varieties so will have a look in the woodland edge to see if I have a suitable site. But right now I am desparate for rain so I can plant my new purchases! My yellow flowered epimedium is a good spreader so I am thinking best style would be to have repeat plantings of the same colour as that would be easy and economic to do.
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Oh what a joy that was. the Garden Centre looked spectacular. Here are my purchases including two lovely phloxes - the purple one is called Dwarf carpet and the pink and white one "candy stripe".
Wow! the phlox are beautiful. I haven't seen the striped one before.
Were you like a child in a sweet shop? Even better when you had vouchers to spend!
Yes I only needed 86p from my purse! Mixture of Xmas present vouchers and earnings from my "Gardening journalism" as my friend calls my writing to the letters pages of gardening mags! My friend who took me was full of admiration at my business like approach as I had a mental list of what i wanted to buy so steered her from one dept to the next with no dithering. My mental arithmetic is still exceptional so i knew when I had to stop buying.
Hehe! This pansy, one of my plug plants is almost as big as its plant.
Wow such lovely pictures. That epimedium is a beauty.
I keep that Epimedium in a pot Marion as it has small leaves and is a lovely delicate looking plant.
If you would like some Let me know.
TY Joyce. I have been on the internet and found lots of lovelu white flowered varieties so will have a look in the woodland edge to see if I have a suitable site. But right now I am desparate for rain so I can plant my new purchases! My yellow flowered epimedium is a good spreader so I am thinking best style would be to have repeat plantings of the same colour as that would be easy and economic to do.
Marion & Joyce your gardens are beuitiful, you bath must be very proud, Joyce, what is the first picture with the lovely purple flowers?
Marion, this week is going to go cold and wet then warm up at the weekend again
, I want sunshine today or I will never get the garden finished.
Flumpy...it's lithospermum. A low growing, spreading plant.