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I did look them up and came to that conclusion , they look really good quality.

 

They are very good quality which I am happy with I don't mind paying a premium price with quality plants , I've not bought off them before but I keeping an eye out for protea pink ice in future. Hopefully I can keep these two alive , they are on the windowsill at the moment bit chilly in the greenhouse, they both take a frost but apparently .

 

I'm always a bit wary of those minimum temperatures they quote.
The kind of frost we are getting at the moment is one thing, a January day that rains all day then goes down to minus three for 12 hours is something a bit different.

 

My new Double Hibiscus, a HibisQs which blooms for 3-5 days and constantly has blooms. I have an Orange Single one too below. I got a new pedestal pot for the new one ... it is actually a lantern so I lined it with an old black tee shirt before filling with compost..

 

Yay!!

I’ve just visited a garden centre that I’ve recently heard about.

How lovely to wander around an Aladdin’s cave of a centre, on an ordinary street. A mad, confusing maze of narrow paths with planting shelves groaning with pots of plants. It felt just like one of my favourite garden centres in the UK, apart from the fact that the paths were only about 30cm wide. Not cheap to my mind - but then the prices are on a par with Secret Garden, so I may just be out of touch with plant prices!!


Anyway, I chose plants that I might get away with dividing before I plant, as is my want....

 

Took myself off to Pan Global Plants (Frampton on Severn), a bit of a trek for me. Picked up a couple of things I killed off last year plus a couple of unusual polygonatum, a lilac with very different foliage, another Berberis, a smooth leaved mahonia, Sarcococca orientalis to go with the new Daphne bholula and an orange flowered buddleja from Brazil. From tomorrow I'm on bread and soup for the next few weeks.

 

It'll be worth it Nigel.

 

I really shouldn't be planting anything at this time of year, but hey ho, finally tracked down Photinia 'Pink Marble' and the GC had some beautiful clematis...Nubia (red) and Tranquillity (lilac and white double). Also got quite a few big gaps to fill in the main border as the original cistus are coming to the end of the road, so Choisya, pink Phlomis, Grevillea and my favourite sages, Icterina and Purpurea , will go in tomorrow.

 

@Sheal bones on for stock for minestrone soup.

 

Sounds good to me Nigel.

 

Ordered these from Ballyrobert Gardens yesterday.

https://www.ballyrobertgardens.com/products/actaea-simplex-atropurpurea-group-brunette

https://www.ballyrobertgardens.com/products/cirsium-rivulare-atropurpureum

Erigeron 'Foersters Liebling'

https://www.ballyrobertgardens.com/products/eryngium-giganteum-silver-ghost

https://www.ballyrobertgardens.com/products/eryngium-x-zabelii-neptunes-gold

Nick

 

Went to the Garden Center to buy an Oleander (I think it is dark pink ) and came back with ...

* Nerium Oleander
* Trixie mixed pot of Petunia (purple spotted white), Calibrachoa (pink) and Verbena (red/white stripe)
* Verbena (bright pink)
* Begonia boliviensis (orangey red)
* Portulaca umbraticola (mixed in hanging pot)
* Thunbergia (orange in hanging pot)
* Hebe Veronica (purple)
* Pelargonium zonale (shocking pinky orange)
* Alstroemeria Intacantra Bryce (orangey/brown/pink)

... all for 50 Euros after my 15 Euro card credit!

 

Your the kind of person I usually end up behind, at the checkout.
Me with my ball of string.

 

Bought from B & Q Wigan today
Pyracantha, Saphyr Red -- to fill in an empty corner
Used a £10 voucher they had kindly sent to me

 

Believe it or not, white lavender just been delivered upside down in the pot