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bargain at one and a half of the queens. decent size an all

 

went before to B&Q to get some black fence paint, every colour, but guess what????

anyhoo's, i don't know how it happened, honestly i dont, but someone, somewhere decided to put a yukka and a fatsia on the tills, and MADE me pay for it. the cheek of some people who can actually FORCE you to buy a plant or 2.

 

Strongy and Spruce thanks for the Hosta ID

 

ClaraLou - I do like your Cestrum. Its so nice to see more unusual things being sold. I am growing the normal Cestrum parqui, its in its third year from seed, which is about to flower properly - but I am going to be disappointed after Googling pictures of yours.

 

Just happened to pop into the local nursery as you do. Got a really nice couple of bulky ferns (Harts Tongue and Japanese Tassel) for a shady border I've got developing and also a handsome Scabiosa Butterfly Blue that needed taking home from the 50% off section.
Had a chat with the nursery chappy who was a bit down at the mouth what with the lousy weather, so buying a few things to cheer him up seemed really the gentlemanly thing to do ...

Will try to get a snap when the hurricane abates

 

Todays purchases from the plant lady in the playground.

I think I got a bargain at £4 for all of this and have put a few in the id section

 

how come my last post on the y.ukka has become an advert? has it been doctored?

 

went shopping again today, and visited a lovely nursery i never knew existed. i'll be going back next week to get a few more plants.
bought 2 crocosmia lucifer, a phormium, a miscanthus giganteus, and another fatsia vari. they had a lovely acacia, but sadly a-it wouldn't fit in the car and b- not hardy enough, but i was tempted.

 

Went to the rare plants fair at Waterperry and came back with various things including this Veronica Inspire Blue. Too windy to take pics of the others because they were taller, but they included decaisnea fargesii, and Polemonium caeruleum album.

 

Al n , soon you have to change your name to tropic - al , look really good , one question do you remember the name of the yucca? I don`t know if you know that there are yucca hardy to -30 and yucca that will die at -4 .

 

it was was labelled just as a mexican yukka.

it was on its own, shoved at the back amongst trays of bedding.

it is labelled as hardy, growth to a metre max.

 

will this be ok in free draining sandy soil in a sunny spot? or best potted and moved in the garage/inside/the shed in winter?