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Post by tod2 on May 17, 2024 15:18:20 GMT
WoW - It is so beautiful Whatagain!
Mick, I would love to grown any kind of Arum lily in my garden but I have 10,000 moles waiting with large appetites for any kind of bulb! Buggars!
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Post by kerouac2 on May 24, 2024 3:36:36 GMT
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Post by bjd on May 24, 2024 7:17:02 GMT
Gorgeous hardy geraniums.
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Post by whatagain on May 24, 2024 11:05:09 GMT
Waw.
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Post by whatagain on May 24, 2024 11:07:15 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on May 24, 2024 15:56:21 GMT
That deep pink rose bush is magnificent.
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Post by mickthecactus on May 26, 2024 9:32:27 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on May 26, 2024 15:23:22 GMT
So pretty & bright -- a nice pop in that serene corner.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 26, 2024 15:56:59 GMT
It's almost too brilliantly yellow to be in the UK.
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Post by whatagain on May 26, 2024 17:51:15 GMT
It is beautiful.
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Post by bjd on May 26, 2024 18:07:32 GMT
I'm surprised your lillies are already in bloom, ours here will open soon.
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Post by lugg on May 26, 2024 19:08:16 GMT
Just catching up as I have not visited this page for a while. So many lovely blooms missed but oh my such wonderful blooms all . Bixa your orchids are so beautiful . What again such lovely roses and that clematis and Mick that arum and the yellow lilly , wow.
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Post by lugg on Jun 1, 2024 20:22:53 GMT
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Post by mickthecactus on Jun 1, 2024 20:33:27 GMT
Some nice stuff lugg! Thanks.
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Post by bjd on Jun 2, 2024 6:27:02 GMT
Lovely roses and other flowers, Lugg. How do you deal with blackspot? Almost all my roses have it-- I thought it was caused by damp?
Is that last picture an astrantia? I have been coveting them for a while but would have to buy them online and I was disappointed by my attempt at online plant buying.
Your sambuca (black lace elderberry) is beautiful too but they get so big!
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 2, 2024 15:25:20 GMT
Incredibly beautiful array, Lugg! I remember your reporting on here that you'd planted that elderberry & were hoping that it would thrive. It did! What is that wonderful white-flowered plant in the picture between the two Aquilegias? All of your roses are gorgeous. I'd give my eye teeth for that yellow rose bush. Fun fact: air pollution helps keep black spot down: Prior to the 1956 Clean Air Act rose black spot was almost unknown. However, as air quality improved and sulphur dioxide levels dropped, rose black spot suddenly became a big problem for rose growers sourceand Germination of conidia of Diplocarpon rosae Wolf is inhibited in a solution made by dissolving 35 p.p.m. sulphur dioxide in water. Inhibition is permanent after exposure for 3 hr. Gaseous SO2 in air under controlled conditions at 100μg./m3 markedly reduces infection of rose leaves after exposure for 2 days. Blackspot of roses is checked or eliminated in areas where SO2 pollution of air exceeds 100/μ./m.3 source
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Post by bjd on Jun 2, 2024 19:19:23 GMT
So I have to go and live in a more polluted place to keep my roses blackspot free?
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Post by lugg on Jun 2, 2024 19:33:44 GMT
Thank you guys.
I am not even sure if it is black spot - going to do some research but if it is then I will have to live with it given Bixas info.
Yes bjd the last pic is astrantia ..it was here when I bought the house so has survived for nearly 30 years ( 28 ) , with little to no care - so it is well worth any (on line) investment. I don't know if it is possible to harvest and grow seeds from it , but will have a look and if so happy to send some to you.
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Post by bjd on Jun 3, 2024 9:01:32 GMT
Thanks for the offer, Lugg, it's very kind of you. But I see that astrantia is mainly shade or part-shade loving, and I have little shade in the garden. In about 10years, when our new trees grow up, there will be more. I also saw that astrantia is best divided to make new plants. Growing from seed is more complicated: they have to be started in autumn and cold treated. So rather a bother.
I also see that they like moist soil, so that is another problem.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 7, 2024 15:29:45 GMT
I want to strongly recommend a plant to all of you here. This thing is such a performer that I think it would work in everyones different conditions. A friend gave me a single skinny stem which broke off her purchase as we were unloading our respective hauls from the plant nursery. I stuck it into the front bed where it must have immediately rooted. At any rate it turned into a nice round blooming plant quite quickly. Since then I have bought others for the front bed -- a bed that is badly suffering in this heat & drought we're having. Not a problem, this is a happy little Euphorbia that just goes and goes with its frosty "flowers" and naturally tidy habit. Here is some information. I assure you all that mine look every bit as good as the models in the article ~ hort.extension.wisc.edu/articles/euphorbia-diamond-frost/
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Post by mickthecactus on Jun 7, 2024 16:35:41 GMT
That’s a good looking plant.
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Post by bjd on Jun 7, 2024 18:09:36 GMT
I have seen it used in containers on garden videos I watch regularly. Never seen it for sale here.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 7, 2024 18:52:42 GMT
Finding it was a real score. The other great find at the same nursery is their selection of miniature vincas. they are just as stalwart as the ball-shaped Euphorbia & pair with them nicely in terms of size & habit of growth. I have lilac ones & coral ones in two different beds, both of which have been getting scorching sun. They're just as pretty & cheerful as can be. utgardens.tennessee.edu/new-vinca-series-is-tiny-and-terrific/
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Post by lugg on Jun 8, 2024 18:44:39 GMT
That is very pretty
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Post by Kimby on Jun 10, 2024 15:58:23 GMT
The wild lupines are blooming! This clump seems particularly happy.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 10, 2024 16:22:18 GMT
They are beautiful. Love the leaf shape and the way the gloriously blue flowers are held above the folige.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jun 13, 2024 7:21:23 GMT
I was mooching around one of my better garden centres looking for something different for wall pots when I found this little gem, Viola hederacea, the Australian violet.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 13, 2024 17:05:21 GMT
It's a darling. The foliage is tidy & pretty as well.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 15, 2024 22:34:53 GMT
I can't take a picture right now because it's raining (hallelujah!), but the pink rain lilies are popping up all over. I have a nice little spread of them in the sad, burnt back garden area and walking around I see them in any little patch of ground, including snugged up to curbs in the street. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zephyranthes_carinata
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Post by bjd on Jun 18, 2024 8:48:47 GMT
A few pictures from the garden this morning. Stokesia. First time I have planted any. Osteospermum Salvia farinacea Dahlia Pentstemon [/url
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