How to get 'True colours shining through...'?

I've just received the spreadsheet.
It's incredible and so informative and a great practical tool! In addition to the key, in one of the boxes I read 'slugs' and scrolled to see the plant. It was alstromeria.
I bought two pots of them last year - dark pink and red. They were flowering and kept on growing and flowering like crazy until frost.
I will know that I have to treat them when the snow melts. :yess:
Slugs are a huge population here and for my garden pics, where pink and orange are seen (to produce a colour clash :D), it just betrays that I was celebrating my tagetes. Dahlias, tagetes and sunflowers were my little victory over slugs last year. All it took was little, but timely preventive treatment at the end of March. I love tagetes and dahlias, but for some time I couldn't grow them at all as the slimy beasts literally feasted on them.
After trying all sorts of htings in 2010, in 2011 I was daring enough to sow tagetes directly outdoors (in addition to seedlings in pots). I had lots fo seeds from a friend and believed that tagetes would do for a neat low border, but it branched and grew as tall as 70 cm, engulfing the space around and competing with everithing and all the roses around (although I had planted it nearest to Westerland and Teasing Georgia).
I didn't mind. :D

PeterS wrote:

I particularly rejoiced at this one! This was my first and only cleome. I've never seen them before so didn't think it would be pink. A friend sent me 3-4 seedlings later in the season and only one flowered. What do I do? Behead it not to mar the view?

I planted all my annuals in the best place I had (sunny, lots of water, in a bed which had been newly filled with soil, wood ashes from the fire place, some beech leaf compost we collected from the wood and manure) to just see what they look like and how they would perform.
:grouphug:

 

Angelina - if you have the space Cleome are well worth growing as annuals. Start them off now and this is what you should get.................

 

longk, have you actually ordered anything from this site? I checked it with older members of the Bulgarian forum and it turned out that they knew it and were not satisfied at all: the seeds were of questionable quality, 50% or less were viable, some items were missing from the parcels and 'replacements' had been inserted instead or just paper notes saying 'We will deliver Spec. x Var. at some later time.' Shipment was delayed, etc.
The latest feedback on the relevant thread is dated 4 March, 2010.
Of course, things might have changed, but this is just to alert you.

 

I haven't - bookmarked it and forgot. It was only your location that reminded me.

Thanks for the tip

 

Angelina It would not be a problem to shout out, for supplies in this forum
If folk on here have them I am sure they will send them to you
The GC is all about helping fellow man with gardening wether it be advice or providing seeds, bulbs etc if they have them spare

I am new to gardening so do not have much, but if someone were to ask for something I had, I would pop it in the post to them soonest
People HAVE done it for me, and I have done it for others

Postage works both ways, someone sends me something, but may get something from someone else, I send something to someone and I get something from someone else
Or dependet on the circumstances I would send them the cost of the postage and packaging

Enjoy your visits

Regards Jack McH

 

Angelina - what I was saying about size in a long winded way, was really to have plants in groups not just singly. A group of the same plants can make a big impact, compared with single plants.

 

Sure it does, Jack McHammocklashing! :yess:
Being aware that I can contribute to the community makes me feel much more comfortable now. Thank you again!

PeterS wrote:

Got it: group vs. single.

 

I don't know whether these are beginning to look 'about right', but I'm making the effort to get them 'ensembled' and I hope it shows.




This green rose really looks hypnotic...



And here, mainly foliage accounts for the overall effect:

 

Angelina,
I admire your eye for colour and the discipline you commit to your plantings. Everything looks perfect from where I am viewing. My garden,and that of many of those here on GC sadly, has endured pretty unkind treatment from Mother Nature this season and it is nice to see yours looking so good.
Please, what is the name of your little green rose? I think I have fallen in love with it....

 

Thank you, JennyOnufsuli2011
The green rose has no name. It is hybrid tea No. 62 from a local rose grower: http://www.rozi-bg.com/chaen_hibrid2.html The English version of their site is not operational I'm afraid.
It arrived in a container and was in bud. I assume it will be taller next season and this colour combination is just a transient stage, but a very beautiful one.

As for Mother Nature and her whimsical ways, this is probably the right thread to say that after the heat-cold treatment in May, the whole garden was accelerated by almost two weeks. This resulted in most unusual combinations (which were never meant to happen, like pink late-blooming peonies and orange lilies).:WINK1:

 

Angelina - the garden is looking loverly.

As Jenny said - we have been having some bad weather - cold and gales. My garden is looking a bit flattened.

 

I wondered where this crocus-heuchera-erythronium (leaves) combination belonged in the forum. I think colour is definitely the 'value added'...







...and I'm getting ready for the next season. Here are my new heuchera and heucherella supplies:

 

Lovely Angelina. I hope your weather has been better for you than it has been here. Its been the coldest Match since about records began. You would think it wouldn't matter when you were inside the house - but it maked the house a lot smaller.

Every windowsill, space, floor area is covered with seedlings waiting to go outside. Some of my seedlings are now 1 meter high, and blocking the light through the windows. And my electricity bill is huge. I have bought reptile heating mats and covered them with transparent storage boxes to make cheap heated propagators, which have more headroom than those that you can buy. I think I will get a bigger box and sit in it myself.