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Post by Rosefriend on Feb 10, 2008 18:35:58 GMT
Help ...I don't think I can Dutchy....my OH has just got the smelling salts out......4 feet in one year.....oh dear...can I cry please!!!
RF
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Post by Dutchy on Feb 10, 2008 18:42:32 GMT
 I know what you mean RF. Shal we get in front of the digits fireplace and drink these untill we forget? 
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Post by Rosefriend on Feb 10, 2008 18:44:05 GMT
Yes please - can you make mine a large one ........sniff..
RF
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Post by JennyWrenn on Feb 16, 2008 7:32:33 GMT
Rather than scroll back to page one, cos this is a busy Thread, is there something I should know about this bush that is erm bad and not to be touched for eg I bought one last year and it grew really tall, which is what I wanted. I also have one at the front garden - that appeared - maybe a wayward seed and I do have a lot that are in the paving stones  |
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Post by Rosefriend on Feb 16, 2008 8:00:55 GMT
oooooo Jenny not you as well....you are on dangerous ground here .....go on Dutchy - you tell her.......it is too painful for me.......
RF
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Post by Amo on Feb 16, 2008 8:12:05 GMT
I found another self potted one yesterday  but didn't dare post the pic  ;D |
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Post by Rosefriend on Feb 16, 2008 8:27:42 GMT
Another one... thank you for your restraint Amo.......I have a very delicate disposition........
RF
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Post by Amo on Feb 16, 2008 8:54:17 GMT
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Post by Dutchy on Feb 16, 2008 10:19:30 GMT
Oh dear oh dear oh dear  Buddleias on the continent do not grow as they do in the UK. Although the ones the municipalty planted in my area are doing well. In my much more clay soil garden they die within three years. No matter how well I treat them. RF too has no luck with these monsters. They keel over. So here we are doing our utmost and,.... zilch nothing nada niente dead. This has us slightly on edge as every one else is doing fine. FINE? They get whopping weedlike growth in walls and pavements and and and and SOB.  Then they go and tell me and RF ( she is much more sensitive as I now have one big and one baby Budd growing at MssK ) Boasting about Budds is a no no no on this thread.  Yet every one seems to feel the need to get spanked by us and places all sorts of information, be it in words or worse in photo, on here. Life is hard for us poor continental lasses trying to grow Budds.   Sorry RF  Not sure for whom though |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2008 11:50:56 GMT
On a serious note, though, this may be of help to RF and Dutchy. I was going through the RHS Good Plant Guide yesterday, and at the end they have a list of plants for different soil types - and it seems that Buddleia likes seriously limey soil. Which explains why they thrive in Dublin (mainly lime), and in rubble, paving cracks etc. (again, probably limey). So, it might help to lime your soil/pots ... just a thought ... cheers (errr .... just been out de-Buddleiaing  )
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Post by Ladygardener on Feb 16, 2008 13:21:40 GMT
has anyone got a buddleia honeycombe? I just ask because my daughter in lancashire has one in her garden and I've just been over for a visit but I've not seen it anywhere else. It's fantastic for the bees and butterflys and is sweet smelling too.
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Post by Amo on Feb 16, 2008 16:46:52 GMT
The one we found in the hyacinth pot is now called Dutchy and so it is only logical that the one found yesterday kidding itself it's a ligularia is now called Rosefriend.
I will hope to post photos of your own buds for you as they grow. ;D
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Post by Dutchy on Feb 16, 2008 18:46:22 GMT
I am honoured Amo but if Rf's and my own good standing with budds are anything to go by they won't make it. Not with our names attached  Ooh I do wonder what colour I am going to be...
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Post by Amo on Feb 16, 2008 19:05:42 GMT
I've no idea at the moment as we have from 'Black Knight' to the yellow globosa and a few shades inbetween.  I'll just be your surrogate mum. ;D |
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Post by Ruthie on Feb 16, 2008 21:35:38 GMT
On a serious note, though, this may be of help to RF and Dutchy. I was going through the RHS Good Plant Guide yesterday, and at the end they have a list of plants for different soil types - and it seems that Buddleia likes seriously limey soil. Which explains why they thrive in Dublin (mainly lime), and in rubble, paving cracks etc. (again, probably limey). So, it might help to lime your soil/pots ... just a thought ... cheers (errr .... just been out de-Buddleiaing ) That may be the case but my soil is acid sand and they seem to like it. |
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Post by Dutchy on Feb 17, 2008 12:17:26 GMT
Mummble mummmble gnhgnhgnmummble tskk. Ooh I'd love to be a yellow globosa. You hardly ever see those out here ( in gardencenters yes but never in gardens ).
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Post by Rosefriend on Feb 17, 2008 13:46:01 GMT
It just gets worse and worse doesn't - yellow globosa....nah - lovely in the GC as Dutchy has said .......my GH says not to even think about buying it....why do they have them then. If anyone says that they have the new multi coloured Budd I will start sulking ...and as for the new dwarf varieties that are ideal for a tub.......... Just to let you all know what the instructions are for growing Budd's in Germany. Plant in a warm place in a mix of sand and peat. Fertilize immediately after cutting back in the Spring (if it has lived that long) and once again during flowering. Cover with good compost. It can freeze back in winter to the ground - cover with peat and leaves. Flowers can cause headache if smelt too much........yeah...fat chance!! OK here you go ....Dutchy - do not look too long.....I have looked after these like a baby and want them to live....  OM sent me them last year and they have been put in best compost - talked to, watered and loved all winter. They were given the best fleece as well. RF |
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Post by Amo on Feb 17, 2008 16:24:58 GMT
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Post by Dutchy on Feb 17, 2008 17:31:10 GMT
Rosefriend I did not look, promise. Amo yes that looks very much like me. ;D  With greys but still green and floppy ;D How did you make the Label. It looks very top nosh. |
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Post by Rosefriend on Feb 17, 2008 17:35:43 GMT
Well here's the pair of miscreants plonked in the bed this afternoon. Hardly a hyacinth or ligularia.   Great Amo - what an honour...thanks.. Know what you mean Dutchy - mine is very grey and a bit broad in the beam........mmmmh......wonder how that got around... RF |
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Post by Dutchy on Feb 17, 2008 17:47:33 GMT
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Post by Amo on Feb 17, 2008 18:01:13 GMT
They do actually have quite different leaves at the moment but I'm not sure if that's just down to how they have grown themselves. I use a Brother P touch 1000 for all my labels. Those two are on the large type setting though. I went to a NGS garden year before last and it was covered in the big white plant pot labels and it looked awful. Not discreet in any way. Went out and bought the label maker as I was starting from scratch anyway. |
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Post by Dutchy on Feb 17, 2008 18:13:35 GMT
Wow those labels are real nice. Wish I had something like that. Or maybe I should get me one.
They do look very good Amo.
Hey you could start a labelling business on here ;D
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Post by Rosefriend on Feb 17, 2008 18:43:13 GMT
I must admit that looks like a good investment Amo.
Right - we now have one miracle seedling in The Netherlands, one Dutchy and one Rosefriend (both unknown entities) in the UK and 2 coddled and much loved Budd's in Germany. There are also some German Budd's in Norfolk with OM - that he is apparently treating with contempt!!
Now then can we all post a progress report now and again to see how they are all faring?
RF
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Post by Dutchy on Feb 17, 2008 19:03:00 GMT
Will risk it RF ;D
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Post by Amo on Feb 17, 2008 19:12:56 GMT
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Post by Rosefriend on Feb 17, 2008 19:52:43 GMT
I've got everything crossed...
RF
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Post by Amo on Feb 18, 2008 19:47:03 GMT
Well this morning it was -3 but you both seemed perky enough but as you had just been transplanted, I waited for it to get warmer and this afternoon I tucked you both up with some conifir branches. Not something I would normally do but you could be a bit sensative to your new homes. ;D
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Post by Rosefriend on Feb 18, 2008 19:58:08 GMT
ooo how lovely to be cosseted.........
RF
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Post by Dutchy on Feb 19, 2008 18:02:28 GMT
;D
So good to be looked after and be pampered.
I hardly noticed last night..... am I still fine or were you to exhausted to check after draging those paving slabs through your garden?
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Thanks Amo
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but didn't dare post the pic 
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Sorry RF
