Sowed in cold greenhouse yesterday - penstemon whippleanus Chocolate Drop (to join the penstemon cobaea and penstemon barbatus Jingle Bells sown...
It could be, @amancalledgeorge , closest I've seen anyway. Though I wouldn't describe it as low, given it's at least 90cm tall already........
I tickle my tomatoes at least twice a day :biggrin: and so far I have a single Orangello ripening from two bushes, lots of fruit forming. Also a...
I'm not worried about getting a refund or anything, it won't go to waste even if I decide I don't like it enough. I do like to have correct names...
Indeed! Goes from coral to candyfloss pink.....my daughter has said if I don't like it she'll have it, and I'm beginning to think she's welcome to...
Good idea @Clare G !! Don't know why I didn't think of it!!
I bought this rose last autumn, from a garden centre and labelled from a reputable grower as Ruby Mella, which I gather is a pheno-geno; it's...
Very little done in the last week, went down with a nasty tummy bug and still feeling somewhat wobbly. As strength allowed I've been out and cut...
Lots of fruit setting but no ripening here yet. LOTS of green growth too, bush plants have gone crazy! I've removed the shade netting from my...
Pricked out some white foxgloves and a few small thalictrum rochebrunianum, did some deadheading in the back garden, inspected the front...
Geranium nodosum is good in drier shade and flowers right into late autumn (unlike G. phaeum which is just going over now and will need a hack in...
Nothing planned for today...raining again.... :frown: If/when it stops may make a break for the local nursery to pick up some herb plants for a...
Oh those are clever! Must get some!
Went sniffing with Elderly Dog, came home with a pot of baby agapanthus Silver Moon, a bag of cuttings of a red-flowered variegated pelargonium...
Not quite sure what I've done this year....all my tomato plants (growing indoors) are so lush! Last year was rubbish, could hardly get the damn...
About 5ft tall? cost less than a fiver..... Our biggest problem will be the risk of deer eating it.....
Visited a local nursery, came away with an oak sapling for our field and a packet of mixed annual seeds to chuck in a trough in the hope of some...
Elderly Dog and I had a sniffing competition this morning (which we won! Go Team Old Bats!! :yahoo:), over to elder daughter's for late lunch (her...
Potted on some perennials acquired as teeny tiny plugs (GW offer) that have grown surprisingly well, growing strongly and now in 9cm pots,...
Not just me then....three separate sowings of tagetes and not a single one came up. :frown:
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