I like it too Royster, and I wish you luck in your friends garden. Someone suggested roses for shrubbery above groundcover and I think that must...
Not unusual in my experience Georgie. Trim them off, and cut the plant to whatever shape you like - they take to topiary quite well.Underplant...
I've got a bit keen on gingers lately, and had a fine H.coronarium 'Lunar Moth' flowering last year, now making up vegetative stock I presume...
Not in my experience Paladin. It is tough and spreads, but is far too thin to supress weeds if that is what is required here. The probably...
No 2 is Weigela florida 'Variegata', reverting.No 3 is most probably Abeleia chinensis or possibly A.xgrandiflora.No 1 is Euonymus japonicus...
Haven't used one but reports are that they can be a bit of a pain. The good ones are quite large and expensive, the 5hp petrol type that I've seen...
Thanks cos I've never heard of it Palustris...is it hardy and what conditions does it like? Do you have a piccy you can share with us?Apologies...
There's some splendid S. nicolai (I presume) in Kew gardens. Huge things, very Banana Man to my eyes
He'd be big enough for the pot after a couple of these wriggly sausages
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Moss and buddleias
Rosa, it sounds like J.officinalis to me, possibly 'affine' which has pink tinged flowers (and pinkish buds - but they all do IMHO). Both that and...
Just whizzing by: the outdoor ones are j.officinale, flower in mid-late summer, and have reddish young growth. The florist shop jasmines are...
How right you are Jay!!
And I got the same derivations from latin, so at least we can all be wrong together (or right of course) :D :D :D
Just looked through my books - Clerodendr (so far so good) originally 'on' in Banks & Solanders herbarium descriptions (as reported by Linnaeus no...
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Might be a case of punctuated equilibrium; a small mutation with substantial phenotypic expression that just happened to be sucessful? Or maybe it...
Also Waco, and I don't know the latin root but this is ClerodenDRUM, not denDRON so not a tree, though it is. What?Being a nag here, and...
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