[Help] Gardeners Question Time.

[Jack Straw]

Also:
https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/index.cfm
Great choice and value.

https://claireaustin-hardyplants.co.uk/
Her famous father is revered by [MENTION=259]Jack Straw[/MENTION].

https://www.ballyrobertgardens.com/

I've used Burncoose for a wide variety of Phormiums I needed for a job on a garden opposite Shoreham beach a few years' ago. As you say, great choice.
As for David Austin, I went to his rose place near Albrighton to pick up a few roses for the Council one Saturday on my drive up to a game at Shrewsbury! Initially reading your post, I thought Claire Austin's father may have been Jennifer Aniston?!
Bally Robert Gardens is a new one on me.

 

[Coldeanseagull]

There's quite a few interesting ferns and sedums that would lend themselves to that wall, plus interspersed with pansies it'll give an interest well into winter. Chuck some narcissi and muscari or dwarf tulips in and you could pretty much see it through the year. sempervivum, aloe aristata, echeveria and a mix of tufty grasses like festuca or carex for different leaf shape. A smaller leaved bergenia could work well. I just wish I had a free wall to try all this!

 

[Weststander]

I've used Burncoose for a wide variety of Phormiums I needed for a job on a garden opposite Shoreham beach a few years' ago. As you say, great choice.
As for David Austin, I went to his rose place near Albrighton to pick up a few roses for the Council one Saturday on my drive up to a game at Shrewsbury! Initially reading your post, I thought Claire Austin's father may have been Jennifer Aniston?!
Bally Robert Gardens is a new one on me.

I lazily used to use Crocus/RHS for most buys, until they became ridiculously busy with all the folk pretending to work from home .... instead doing home and garden projects. Delivery wait times sometimes in the months, not days!!

(Other than Downderry in Kent for specialist Lavendula and a lovely little wildflower nursery in Oxfordshire).

So I discovered this cottage industry of amazing nurseries across the UK selling online.

 

[zefarelly]

White roses in the front garden are a £5 plant my son chose from woolworths . . . Just grows like it smokes crack!!! Salmon pick is fussy, frail and old, but wonderful colour, I think its 'pink peace' from my Grans, the 'tree' is intertwined with honeysuckle and is clearly happy, on the front of my workshop/man cave, facing east . . . When I first extended the garage to build the workshop in 2003 it was little more than a stick after the brickies finished. Seems to have pulled through. .

 

[Jack Straw]

I just wish I had a free wall to try all this!

Have you seen the film?












Free Wally!

 

[MJsGhost]

White roses in the front garden are a £5 plant my son chose from woolworths . . . Just grows like it smokes crack!!! Salmon pick is fussy, frail and old, but wonderful colour, I think its 'pink peace' from my Grans, the 'tree' is intertwined with honeysuckle and is clearly happy, on the front of my workshop/man cave, facing east . . . When I first extended the garage to build the workshop in 2003 it was little more than a stick after the brickies finished. Seems to have pulled through.

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Why are you keeping Bruno prisoner in your man cave?! #FreeElCapitan


P.s. excellent work with the roses! I bought my mum a shrub (no idea what it is) from Woolies when I was a nipper - 30 years on and it's going strong!

 

[zefarelly]

Why are you keeping Bruno prisoner in your man cave?! #FreeElCapitan


P.s. excellent work with the roses! I bought my mum a shrub (no idea what it is) from Woolies when I was a nipper - 30 years on and it's going strong!

Ha, we have 2 in there, 2 flags . . . and a taz devil Brighton window sticker.

Our Woolies rose must be 10-12 years old now, just goes bonkers every year. There are some other big old ones in the front as well, dark red. There were here when we moved it and we managed to move them accross the garden succesfully to incorporate the driveway. All I do to the one on the back of the workshop is dead head and trim it every autumn/winter

 

[Coldeanseagull]

Have you seen the film








Free Wally!

 

[Jack Straw]

Sorry. I couldn't resist!

 

[1066familyman]

My favourite plant in our garden just about coming into flower.

Astrantia. Gorgeous plant and a proper 'doer' too.

 

[Jack Straw]

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My favourite plant in our garden just about coming into flower.

Astrantia. Gorgeous plant and a proper 'doer' too.

There's some really nice red-flowered varieties around now too.

 

[Weststander]

Another feast for bees. These were free offer bulbs through the Times or Telegraph last autumn, I don’t know the species.

 

[Jack Straw]

Another feast for bees. These were free offer bulbs through the Times or Telegraph last autumn, I don’t know the species.

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I think you've got;
https://www.gardenia.net/plant/allium-roseum-rosy-garlic
https://www.gardenia.net/plant/allium-moly-lily-leek

 

[Weststander]

I think you've got;
https://www.gardenia.net/plant/allium-roseum-rosy-garlic
https://www.gardenia.net/plant/allium-moly-lily-leek

Cheers

Love that website, it’s also very helpful on planting combinations.

 

[Bob!]

Ha, we have 2 in there, 2 flags . . . and a taz devil Brighton window sticker.

Our Woolies rose must be 10-12 years old now, just goes bonkers every year. There are some other big old ones in the front as well, dark red. There were here when we moved it and we managed to move them accross the garden succesfully to incorporate the driveway. All I do to the one on the back of the workshop is dead head and trim it every autumn/winter

I'd hazard a guess that your Woolies rose is at least 13 years old.

The last ones closed early January 2009. The last deliveries we had would have been Spring 2008.

 

[Stat Brother]

Frequently described as the Scorsese/De Niro for post modern bee poppy cinematography. Stat & Chris are back.

We spent the winter story boarding our summer blockbuster, and finally went with an homage to Mission Impossible. (Or do they pay homage to us - not for me to say)

I hope you enjoy this rollercoaster ride of thrills, spills, action and explosions.




If you're an adrenaline junkie stay tuned this summer.




If not just moan about it, I don't care.

 

[Stat Brother]

So what do I do with ex Lupin flowers?
Do they need deadheading to encourage more flowers or do they stay for reseeding, a la the poppies?

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

I have a lot of climbing hydrangea on our house, not sure how to trim it.
Don’t know why they’ve come out sideways There’s Virginia creeper there too.

 

[Jack Straw]

So what do I do with ex Lupin flowers?
Do they need deadheading to encourage more flowers or do they stay for reseeding, a la the poppies?

"Your money or your Lupins!"
https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/popular/lupins/growing-guide

 

[Jack Straw]

Frequently described as the Scorsese/De Niro for post modern bee poppy cinematography. Stat & Chris are back.

We spent the winter story boarding our summer blockbuster, and finally went with an homage to Mission Impossible. (Or do they pay homage to us - not for me to say)

I hope you enjoy this rollercoaster ride of thrills, spills, action and explosions.




If you're an adrenaline junkie stay tuned this summer.




If not just moan about it, I don't care.

That's made my day seeing Chris in action again. I'll certainly stay tuned.