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They're not "flowers" on your Flamingo Gail.....that's the leaf colour. Grow a couple here too....a marmite plant but I love it
Nice plants lucius.......I planted Darwinii several years ago and now everyone around here has one. Currently laden with beautiful orange flowers. More grasses too! You have got the ornamental grass bug now!

 

When reading up on them Verdun it said they was flowers... for letting me know

 

Oky doky Gail

 

Hi Gary, i thought you might find this link good on the Flamingo Tree and sorry the pink and white aren't flowers like i read...they're the leaves changing colour as Verdun let me know, as he also as some

Salix Integra 'Hakuro Nishiki' - How to Care and Pruning - Plantopedia

 

My Berberis Darwinii tree was blown down in a winter storm. I have bought the smaller version to replace it, only grows to a metre tall. It's one of my favourites as supports birds and bees. The Foxtails Barleys have given up, so needed to replace them. Bought two Blue grasses and a feather reed. I want to buy more Foxtail Barley at some point as they look stunning.

How is Nico ?

 

Morning lucius.......thick mist over the beach today but just a few miles east its sunny ! Might be one of those days when the mist will hang around all day
Nico is fine.....sharp teeth, full of fun and adding a kg a week in weight.
I had a feeling your hordeums would fail....not convinced by WCN response to you at all! Buy a packet of HJ online, sow asap and you will have as many grasses as you want

520 bean seeds Shiney!! Used to sow approx 100 but now 30 does me

Gail, I guess that colour on Salix Flamingo does indeed look like flowers......if you like that effect (and I do) check out Acer Flamingo; bigger leaves but very similar colouring on a much bigger plant

 

So envious of your space Shiney

 

Hi @Verdun the Acer Flamingo look nice but not for me....larger tree's which i don't need

 

Morning Gail......I prune Acer Flamingo back hard every year so never a "tree". It then makes a large mounded shrub with showy juvenile foliage at around 7' x 9' to 10' across. I have a tall purple canna with it to make a colourful combination throughout summer....who needs flowers?

 

I would need my sunglasses then if I visited your garden Verdun

 

Sounds great Shiney

Lucius, I enjoy foliage.......for example, astrantias are great flowering plants but add a variegated form like Sunningdale Variegata that will shine like a beacon long before the flowers are out. Purple shrubs, blue eucalyptus, yellow dogwoods, silver artemisias and convolvulous cneorum etc., etc., do give loads of colour without a single flower. Just added phlox Goldmine......careful, you really will need your sunglasses to see its foliage!!!

 

I bought this today.................
Kalanchoe 'Dorothy' by longk48, on Flickr

It's Kalanchoe 'Dorothy'. I figured that it would provide plenty of propogating material then when I got home I noticed that the job was already started...................



Best of all it was in the bargain bin...............