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Post by sifreynir on Apr 7, 2007 18:19:40 GMT
I don't know particulaly why but I have been gravitating towards cottage garden plants down at the B&Q!
I got me some foxgloves, delphiniums, Geum, Perenial Lobelia, cowslips...at least two more whose names I have forgotten.
Last years are well grown in, but I bought some more the other day and I have planted them in after battling the grass and weeds that have filled the beds since last year.
Any other cottagy type plants I could get me grubbies on? Psychonaut promised to take me down the clyde valley soon and visit all the garden centres mwuahahaha
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Post by mickster on Apr 7, 2007 20:28:55 GMT
[sifreynir]Any other cottagy type plants I could get me grubbies on? Psychonaut promised to take me down the clyde valley soon and visit all the garden centres mwuahahaha[/quote] Hollyhocks! ;D No, I'm not swearing. ;D I bought six last year from Morisons for about £2.00 a pot. Two didn't survive  But the four grew splendidly to about 7 feet high and had big double yellow and girly pink blooms all down the main stem. They're perennial so come back every year. I've also got bluebells growing all over the place and foxgloves too across the drive, but I wouldn't recommend them if you've got the bairns in the garden. You can also buy bags of lily bulbs and gladioli bulbs. If you plant them now, they should be up and flowering by late July August. Mick. |
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Post by sifreynir on Apr 7, 2007 22:40:44 GMT
I personally feel that the kids should be able to recognise dodgy plants.
When we bought the foxgloves I explained they were not under any circumstances to be eaten lol
Would love bluebells! Will have to track down some hollyhocks cos they look gorgeous!
Where do I get bluebells from? I remember hearing that they protected and shouldn't be dug up from the wild...
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Post by stormy on Apr 11, 2007 2:26:45 GMT
yes they are and be very carefull of imports, as there are dodgy american blue bells that are indanger of taking out ours. oh and they dont transfere easily, remember protections are put there to protect plants from idiots, which is why the primrose is also protected. when we were young we would come home with armfuls of blue bells, which died almost straight away, they dont make good vase plants lol but you can buy british blue bell bulbs here www.englishplants.co.uk/bluebells.html(oh and its a good site, you should find a lot of usefull plants there) its does make me giggle slightly when people talk about dangerous plants and children, because in truth you live in the countryside you live with those plants. blue bells spread like wild fire anyway. you could say i have a cottage garden guys. which basically mean we tend to live the more non exotic plants, you wont find any palms in my garden. a cottage garden tends to be fairly wild, full of all sorts of herbs and climbing roses, like the dog rose and wysteria. and honey suckle. it tends to go for the more hardy plants. they encourage wildlife into their garden. things like snapdragon, poppies and corn flowers, verberna, forget me knot, marigold and anything really. even sunflowers. hope that helps |
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Post by Starchild on Apr 11, 2007 6:43:55 GMT
lupins, lupins are good.
some nice annuals like grannybonnets (aqueligia), snapdragons (antirrinum)
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Post by mickster on Apr 11, 2007 20:49:34 GMT
Sifreynir wrote:
Well they're all over the place in my garden and I haven't been wild since I turned 50.(about 7 bloody years ago) ;D ;D ;D
Mick.
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Post by stormy on Apr 13, 2007 1:18:47 GMT
yeah but ive seen your garden, its looks so natural and wild and full of wild animal things.......what am i saying?  |
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Post by mickster on Apr 13, 2007 19:23:44 GMT
Stormy wrote:
That's my 'Spiritual garden' OK? By the way, the wind ripped all the windmill blades off. They're all in the shed now. ;D ;D
Mick.
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But the four grew splendidly to about 7 feet high and had big double yellow and girly pink blooms all down the main stem. They're perennial so come back every year. I've also got bluebells growing all over the place and foxgloves too across the drive, but I wouldn't recommend them if you've got the bairns in the garden. You can also buy bags of lily bulbs and gladioli bulbs. If you plant them now, they should be up and flowering by late July August.
