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Post by Dutchy on Nov 9, 2008 19:03:53 GMT
Do you get perennial wallflower from seeds or cuttings? I was too late this autumn to sow the normal wall flowers  typical. Can I suggest Aster lateriflower as one to have in the perennial series? It is a small flowered but very abundant one and I am lucky to have a purple one from a friend. I love it. Just like those Chrysanthemum which are still going strong. Would say they are a must have too. |
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Post by Chuckles on Sept 2, 2009 8:11:21 GMT
One perrenial that I have been particularly impressed with this year is Thalitrum. First time I've grown it but it looks lovely with it's flowers towering up above eveything else. The pale purple flower heads on mine have reached about 6ft high but it's actually in the wrong place so will be moved shortly. It would look lovely in the middle or the back of a border. Crocus have a selection of them and I've just added the white one to my wish list ;D and it's on offer so I might even have 2 ;D I've got the Hewitts Double. www.crocus.co.uk/search/_/search.Thalictrum/ |
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Post by Auricula on Sept 2, 2009 16:43:16 GMT
Ooh that looks good Chuckles - I didn't know Crocus did wish lists, I'll have to investigate  |
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Post by Jilly on Sept 13, 2009 10:27:20 GMT
I agree about the Thalictrum Chuckles, I got a couple last year at a plant sale not knowing anything about them. The ones I have are pink and each tiny flower head has really prominent yellow stamens, which is lovely and foliage is just like a maidenhair fern. I've since bought aquilegiafolium and the flowers are totally different, more like mauve powder puffs i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd161/GWDAdmin1/Smilies/Default/smiley.gif . Jillyx |
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Post by Spruance on Feb 6, 2011 17:17:15 GMT
Uniquely, GWD has sought and been granted permission by gardening writer Michael Clark, to reproduce his articles as published in the Boston Target free weekly newspaper. Not all of the articles lend themselves to our TOTD format so our use of the material will be of an occasional nature. So anyway, here is a short piece about The Gold Nugget Ice Plant (Delosperma congestum).
 "This little jewel comes from the dry areas of South Africa. It makes a spreading carpet of succulent evergreen leaves which turn to a gorgeous maroon in winter. In spring the plants are pinpointed by starry bright yellow, mesembryanthemum-like tasseled flowers cuddled in the foliage. When they finish flowering I cut off the forming seed pouches and the show is repeated at the height of summer. I grow a large number of these in an unheated greenhouse and I am now splitting several up and potting them. The mature plants of last year start to flower late this month, the splittings flower in April and the plants are then put outside where they flower in summer. A truly beautiful little plant" [Copyright Michael Clark / Boston Target newspaper February 2011]. |
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Post by Spruance on Feb 11, 2011 14:51:42 GMT
Continuing our series of occasional feature articles by gardening writer Michael Clark, here is a piece about the Tiger Lily (Lily tigrinium).  "Lily tigrinium - The Tiger Lily - is an old favourite of mine. I love its showy, orange, black-spotted turkscap flowers, topping those stout five foot (1.5m) high stems. Quite hardy, this can be grown outside but put a few of these lilies in pots and protect them with a cold greenhouse or conservatory and the earlier flowers make spectacular unmarked blooms for indoor flower arrangements. And now is the time to pot the bulbs. I have four large pots filled with them and I am going to split them up, clean the bulbs and plant up even more pots. As with all pot-grown lilies there are three important pointers to success: the right compost, the correct depth of the bulbs in the pot and growing them cool. Tigrinium is a stem-rooting lily, that is, as the stem grows it makes it makes roots from the base of the stem above the bulb. So the bulbs must be planted low in the pot to accommodate this trait and when the stem roots appear the pot top-dressed with fresh compost. I have always got into hot debate over the compost this lily needs. I use John Innes No.1 potting compost with leaf-mould added (peat as a substitute). You can put one bulb in a six inch (15cm) pot or three into a twelve inch (30cm) pot and put each bulb on a little pile of sharp sand. I love it when they flower!" [Copyright Michael Clark / Boston Target newspaper Feb 9th 2011 (reprinted with written permission from the author) ] |
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Feb 13, 2011 19:15:31 GMT
For me... Veronica...the bees adore it.  |
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typical.
