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Those cardiocrinums look good @Perki - I bet you paid an arm and leg for them! Be warned - slug magnets. Mine is like lace now

 

Oh well done, Perki! There'll be no stopping you now

 

@CarolineL I didn't think they were to badly priced I got 2 for £10 , I had a feeling they'd be slug magnets so after I planted them out yesterday I put some wool pellets round them , they've not been touched yet. I were reading elsewhere that bulb let ones don't grow as tall as seed raised ones topping out at 1-.5- 2m tall which is a bit disappointing.

Thanks @noisette47 I don't know the insurance quotes have stopped me in my tracks at them moment

 

That's a very good price @Perki as they take ages to grow and yours look pretty big. Surprised by statement re size - after all, ordinary lilies grow just as big if grown on from bulblets or even scales (given time). I wonder if they just run to flower faster rather than spending more years building bulb size.

 

I recently got these three, the first two were impulse buys on visiting Hill House, the other one was something I'd been after for the past few years, after I'd killed the original while moving it (don't ask I'm blaming the erratic weather in spring)
Alstroemeria psitticana

Agapanthus "Twister"


Zanthoxylum laetum very spiny, foliage has an almost headache inducing smell, but lovely young foliage.

 

A headache-inducing smell? I might pass on that one, however lovely the foliage.

 

Love the agapanthus @NigelJ
I had the alstroemeria once, but it was more fickle than the hybrids and died on me

 

Isn't it strange? I can't grow Alstroemeria Indian Summer for toffee, but psitticana is romping away.... My Zanthoxylum (whichever species it was) got the chop yesterday. It was dying by inches, probably another casualty of the wet winter. Having decided that i don't like the flavour of schezuan pepper in dishes, can't say I'm heartbroken....
for A. Twister. Beautiful plant!

 

Have just picked up a couple of Monardas, which I've been wanting for a while. I thought I was going to have to bring the bees home with me! The pinky one doesn't smell of much, but the dark one is really pungent.

 

I've been shopping again:
Echinacea "Sunseeker Red"



Stokesia "Mel's Blue"

 

Astrantia "Cerise Button".

 

That's a new variety on me, @Escarpment. Looks like a good doer!

 

We won a raffle voucher at our local flower and produce show. £15....not bad. So decided we would like another indoor palm. Saw one, Phoenix canariensis, in a local nursery at £30. Thought that was too much. Back home we searched on line and found that it actually was a bargain. So went back yesterday and bought it and it looks great in the garden room.

 

Moles seeds, ordered 2pm yesterday, arrived in this morning mail.
Free postage.

 

Oh dear. I have been very busy for months, and now I have some free time, I went with a friend who is a keen plantsman to Farmyard Nurseries. He bought a disgraceful number of hardy begonia species and hedychium. I spent £103 and got the following:
Spiranthes Chads ford
Roscoea purpura vannin
Roscoea red form
Fuchsia Alsen
Kirengshoma palmata
Tricyrtis lasiocarpa
Unknown crocosmia miniature bright red
Athyrum nipp metallicum
Polygonum scoparium
Veronica longifolia Marietta
Linaria aeruginea red
Alstroemeria hookeri
Fuchsia procumbens
Viola ivory queen
Salvia sagitatta
Salvia confertiflora
Asarina procumbens
Physalis Franchetti
Achimenes inferno

I don't have much self-control

Yes I know the salvias are a bit iffy, but they'll sit in the greenhouse.