PeterS garden creation

"However montana does get very big and heavy and might pull the fence over"

Its a thug! But when you need a thug its definitely one to consider!

"2011 Brugmansia jungle - where's my garden gone"

That's ace! You going to keep them in pots like that, or do you plant to do them differently for 2012 ?

 

Very, very nice Peter. You've done a wonderful job with your garden and it has filled out really well (I question the brugs space though :D). Having done a total makeover on my own garden that's still not quite finished I long for that filled out look...time conquers all.

But I guess then we would only say..."Whats next?" and start to re-do or improve, change etc..

Steve...

 

What a stunning transformation! And not a blade of grass either!

It appears that since discovering gardening the potted specimen collection is increasing - how do you over-winter them?

 

Thanks Kristen, Steve, LongK and John. As I said there has never been a long term plan. The garden has a mind of its own and goes in its own direction. :D

As far as the Brugmansia are concerned, its a matter of a developing interest. I was introduced, by chance, by Walnut (I am eternally grateful Walnut - may your brugs multiply and their fruit have many seeds :D) via a GC seed scheme. All 26 in the last picture were grown from seed that year, with the hope that some would produce different colours and shapes. And indeed I had pink, white and yellow ones. I knew that there would be a problem overwintering 26 Brugs - but hoped that they would flower in the first year and that I could take cuttings of interesting ones.

Its an exampe of how an interest in particular plants can interfere with the objective of a having beautiful garden.

Brugs are fairly easy to over winter as long as you have space in a frost free area. Some have had to be abandoned, But I am overwintering quite a few, along with many other tender plants, in the summerhouse which has a heater. Also in a small greenhouse that I built on the far side of the summerhouse. And then there is the hall in my house with a low level fluorescent grow light - and my third bedroom with grow lights, which is totally given over to plants.

Kristen - I might plant the odd Brugmansia in the border. But that would be saying good-bye to them as they would never survive a winter outside. So other Brugs have to be in pots.

 

You could plant in the border and then either dig up and cut back and overwinter, or take cuttings and over-winter those for planting out following year. Just a thought ... no idea if it is sensible / practical or not!

 

Very nice. Looks like a nice roaming place with a cup of coffee/tea.