To keep or not to keep - that`s the question...

How can we argue with that WO?
I apologise from the heart of my bottom

 

I've got a plant growing which is just like these. (The grass with red/orange/yellow flowers.) Do you happen to know what they're called?

Also, that flower bed looks to be about the same size as my entire garden. Jealous!

 

Hiya garden ninja, those are day lilies - they spread like mad.
ps....oops, I should have put @Radiation91 ....

 

Now look 'ere young Woo, just because you are a rose expert you mustn`t go telling me off - I can't help it, although I love the roses, (I have far too many) - they just will not behave for me.
They will be going out among the day lilies - and that`s that. If you like, you can come over and give them the magic touch. I will pay up to ten bob a day, and throw in coffee, tea, biscuits and the occasional cake.
I do NOT grow plastic flowers - they would probably play me up as well :embarrassed:

What a jolly good job we all have our own favourite plants - it would be so boring if every garden in the country looked the same!

 

Ah that makes sense... since they look like lillies Never made that connection before cheers!

and yeah... garden ninja... I've got a really strong knowledge about random categories of gardening but for the rest of it I know very little (like names of plants) It's either know a topic inside and out or don't know a single thing about the topic. I think a few years ago when I signed up to GC, garden ninja was the closest phrase I could think of that described me. Now, the more I think about it the less apt it seems

 

Umm....what shall we change it to then.....

 

Another selfie Tetters?

 

:rasp:

 

Hi all,
@wiseowl , I'm with you on this one. You only have to prune them once a year, water and feed them. What's so hard about that ?

I think the trouble nowadays is all this " instant gardening " , buy a plant in full flower, plant it and then chuck it at the end of the season. That's not gardening at all.

 

Prune twice a year .....in autumn to reduce wind rock and again in spring....spray often for disease and pest, etc. nothing hard about that.
Now compare to most of my perennials that need none of this!
Even the incomparable Christopher Lloyd expressed his misgivings about roses!

 

I've never pruned in Autumn. If they're planted well and well rooted they don't suffer from wind rock.

 

I am going to be defensive on this as I only have an area approx 7 x 15 feet and that has to provide cut flowers for summer and like Silu states the weather in Scotland does not promote an abundance of rose blooms to suffice, in fact more than half the blooms are destroyed with wet weather.

I agree with the `instant gardener`though as most of my neighbours do that. We have the council park dept that grows the flowers for the areas flower beds and in Early spring the public are allowed in to buy potted garden plants, one neighbour (beautiful garden) must spend hundreds of £s each year.