What are you planting now for 2015?

Ooh, great recommendation, thank you!

 

I'll be buying my bulbs and planting them also October/November . One of my favourite flowers is the Tulip , I bought a large bag of bulbs very cheap at a discount warehouse. When they flowered ( very late ) they looked very cheap I was very disappointed. So will be taking a little more care on my selection this year.

 

I agree there Harry, the "bargain basement" end are okay for mass planting, but I find they dont seem to come back, I now make up pots of selected daffs and tulips, and have some beautiful displays. Then lift when finished, I have in trays in the shed.

 

Do you find when you lift them from the pots they come back as strong? I was thinking of just leaving mine in pots next winter - but will that likely cause them to rot?


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Yes I have no problems, I don`t rush them either, feed well from flowering to die right back, then I tip out the pot and sift through for all the bulbs.

 

have to order a few alliums. get some blue berry bushes, and perhaps couple shrub roses. I thinks that will be it.

 

Have you got anything over your way that we don't have here, or vice-versa, that might be worth swapping seed of?

Anglia Bulbs list the majority of the ones we are likely to grow over here, in case a list of "likely candidates" is helpful

http://www.angliabulbs.com/allium-bulbs/

 

Split a good Allium offer by The Express with a neighbour and the order has arrived so will be planting those today as I have an enormous order of Tulips due any day so better plant the Alliums now so as not to have a backlog of bulbs.
Agree bargain bulbs are fine for mass planting. I once got a huge sack of Winston Churchill Narcissus for about a fiver. They were superb and the perfume of them en mass was heavenly. Unfortunately they were planted at a previous property and I don't really have the heart/energy to repeat the process and already have quite a few Daffodils!

 

Great thank you, I will follow that next year. For my new giant alliums too.

 

Must get some Ammi Majus seed bought and sown ASAP..much more impressive plants sown now rather than in the spring

 

You might like Angelica gigas as an alternative / supplement

 

Very nice...There are some fabulous statuesque Angelicas around and have been meaning to grow more in my garden

 

Thinking of starting some hibiscus any ideas of the more hardy ones?

 

I've taken a number of cuttings for next year: Yew, boxus, ivy and a kind of ground cover viney thing with round leaves I found down the road. They all seem to have rooted already (the ivy, of course definitely has).

 

Please, please, please don't introduce Ivy if you're free of this pernicious weed! And if the "ground cover viney thing" is perriwinkle chuck that in the bin too (please). The perriwinkle was relatively easy to get rid of, but the Ivy is still a full scale battle.