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Post by cheerypeabrain on May 10, 2022 16:43:40 GMT
Thankee kindly...the plants do all the work!
Pelargonium Ardens I think Mick. I split it last year and gave my sister half. It's in the GH atm and will go out in early June.
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Post by bjd on May 10, 2022 16:54:49 GMT
Once you grow borage you’ll never be without it... I had to look it up to see what it looks like. I saw a bunch in my son's garden last week and asked what it was. He didn't know but said there was lots in their garden. Since his wife essentially only plants vegetables, I guess that's why she lets it grow everywhere.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on May 10, 2022 17:00:37 GMT
In the summer I float borage flowers on pimms when we have visitors round for drinkies in the garden...
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Post by mickthecactus on May 10, 2022 17:05:22 GMT
It's in one of the gardens I look after and I'm forever digging it out but the bees love it so I always leave some.
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Post by mickthecactus on May 10, 2022 17:06:13 GMT
Beth Chatto has that Pelargonium for £7.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on May 10, 2022 20:51:59 GMT
It might be a different one...I had ardens...but a few years ago I got another one 'sidoidese' or sommat...I'll google...
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Post by mickthecactus on May 11, 2022 6:38:52 GMT
It's definitely Ardens and not sidoides cheery.
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Post by fumobici on May 11, 2022 14:54:10 GMT
I can remember once driving from Rome to Anghiari and seeing literal kilometers of roadside ditches filled with blooming borage in Lazio. There must have been millions of bees on it, it was an amazing sound they collectively made. I love the plant, beautiful blue blooms and a major bee magnet.
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Post by mickthecactus on May 12, 2022 12:06:50 GMT
Here’s Borage for anybody who doesn’t know it.
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Post by fumobici on May 12, 2022 14:45:49 GMT
That looks more like Brunnera macrophylla to me.
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Post by casimira on May 12, 2022 15:10:26 GMT
The foliage doesn't look at all like the borage I'm familiar with. Yours has very green leaves vs. the one I'm familiar with has more of a grey tinge and hairy texture. It can cause contact dermatitis in some people.
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Post by mickthecactus on May 12, 2022 15:30:51 GMT
I think you may well be right. When I first encountered it I was told it was borage and it was growing all over the garden and I’m still removing it. Brunnera seems more likely. Sorry Cheery!
Brunnera is in the Borage family though.,,
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Post by mickthecactus on May 12, 2022 15:53:10 GMT
Also I see true borage is an annual but this seems to be perennial.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on May 13, 2022 8:31:28 GMT
I'll post some pics when they flower..
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Post by kerouac2 on May 13, 2022 16:02:38 GMT
Basically a weed unprogrammed garden delight then?
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Post by cheerypeabrain on May 24, 2022 14:26:15 GMT
nemesia in the garden this morning pyracantha in flower on the fence potentilla flamenco..the first of the flowers one of the ferns..this one is always the first to put out new growth in the spring red lady fern...my favourite...it has red stems and when the sunlight catches it it sparkles. There are other ferns...oak leaf fern, jpanese painted fern and the red fern...the leaves are orange when the first unfurl and they slowly turn green...these ferns re still only just waking up. tiny early bumblebee on a geranium.
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Post by fumobici on May 24, 2022 14:40:08 GMT
Lovely, I'd forgot about Nemesia, used to plant that every year.
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Post by casimira on May 24, 2022 15:54:36 GMT
I love, love, love that fern, Cheery!!
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Post by bixaorellana on May 24, 2022 16:51:15 GMT
That couldn't be any prettier or more lush, Cheery. Your garden is always so lovely.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 24, 2022 18:47:23 GMT
Looking good, Cheery!
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Post by bjd on May 24, 2022 19:01:05 GMT
Nice to see a variety of ferns, Cheery. We went for a walk in the woods yesterday and all the ferns are the same. I really like the nemesia too but could easily live without pyracantha.
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Post by Rita on May 24, 2022 21:48:31 GMT
I think you may well be right. When I first encountered it I was told it was borage and it was growing all over the garden and I’m still removing it. Brunnera seems more likely. Sorry Cheery! Brunnera is in the Borage family though.,, Looks like Giant Forget me not.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on May 30, 2022 13:45:14 GMT
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Post by cheerypeabrain on May 30, 2022 14:19:56 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on May 31, 2022 3:46:51 GMT
So pretty, Cheery. What is the flower in the next-to-the-last picture?
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Post by cheerypeabrain on May 31, 2022 6:30:10 GMT
Thank you medear. It's a trailing lobelia..think it's called 'waterfall lavender'.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jun 15, 2022 17:36:15 GMT
The garden is starting to really get going... At our granddaughter's baby shower we were given little packets of seed...mine are all in a pot and are flowering their socks off phacelia I thought that this was a corncockle but I'm not so sure Got a big pot on a plinth with pink and mauve flowers...pelargoniums etc Pelargonium pink capitata Brachyscome mauve delight Around the flower beds.. Geranium ? Johnson's blue Lavender Sanguisorba Nemesia sunset orange I think BORAGE Trifolium ochroleucon Petunia crimson wave Ladys mantle Erigeron
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jun 15, 2022 17:47:17 GMT
Cerinthe kiwi blue
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jun 15, 2022 17:50:50 GMT
Aloe polyphylla Larkspur
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Post by bjd on Jun 15, 2022 18:11:31 GMT
Lovely flowers, Cheery. What are the white ones in the last picture?
You have better luck than I do with Johnson's blue geraniums. I planted about 5 plants -- one gave one flower and all have died. Meanwhile, the municipality planted a whole lot in a gravel bed in full sun and they are blooming like mad
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