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Post by Cherry on Jun 21, 2013 19:03:59 GMT
This Cytisus has been in full flower for about four weeks. Just before this it looked scraggy and like something which should have been pulled out.
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Post by Geranium on Jun 22, 2013 4:24:32 GMT
Well, it's a beautiful splash of colour now, Cherry! sweetpea, thanks. It's not a posh camera, it's a Finepix f50, and I just point and click! peony, I like the combination of the Sorbaria with the Salvias. Do you find that your Sorbaria sends up suckers? I have two in my island bed. One does, one doesn't.
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Post by peony on Jun 22, 2013 10:31:11 GMT
Well, it's a beautiful splash of colour now, Cherry! sweetpea, thanks. It's not a posh camera, it's a Finepix f50, and I just point and click! peony, I like the combination of the Sorbaria with the Salvias. Do you find that your Sorbaria sends up suckers? I have two in my island bed. One does, one doesn't. [/font] Thank you Geranium, this is one of my 'combinations' that has turned out well My Sorbaria does send out suckers, one has appeared about 3' behind the original plant, and when I looked at the photo I took I see there is also a small one bottom right in photo The one that is behind the original plant I will leave, there is space there, but I'll dig the small one out and pot it up. I tried this with a small sucker last year but it didn't survive.
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Post by Geranium on Jun 24, 2013 4:40:34 GMT
I've potted some up each year and grown them on. They're very popular on my plant stall! The trick seems to be to trace the root back towards the parent plant and chop it off as close as you can get. I prune that root back so that a good part of the new baby still has roots but will fit into a suitable pot. I hope that helps!
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Post by peony on Jun 24, 2013 11:54:51 GMT
I've potted some up each year and grown them on. They're very popular on my plant stall! The trick seems to be to trace the root back towards the parent plant and chop it off as close as you can get. I prune that root back so that a good part of the new baby still has roots but will fit into a suitable pot. I hope that helps! Yes it does Geranium I only had a small piece of root on the pieces I potted up and it obviously wasn't enough. I'll try again using your method. Thanks for your help.
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Post by Geranium on Jun 25, 2013 4:46:40 GMT
You're welcome.
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Post by Geranium on Jun 25, 2013 4:56:37 GMT
My first sweet peas. Lilium 'Spring Pink' full out. There are four lily bulbs in a very big pot. Robinia hispida in flower.
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Post by SueA on Jun 25, 2013 19:22:36 GMT
Very pretty Geranium, bet your garden looks & smells lovely now!
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Post by Geranium on Jun 26, 2013 4:53:58 GMT
Yes, apart from the wind thrashing my Aquilegia to premature baldness, and the poor Byzantine Gladioli - the same. More plants are coming into bloom to make up for it, though.
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Post by Fractal on Jun 26, 2013 11:58:43 GMT
Papaver orientale in parents garden just opened this morning. Veronica teucrium Bupleurum longifolium (Copper form) Allium christophii Cardiocrinum giganteum in parents garden Even Duckweed appeals if only for the green colour! Parents pond...just as the sun went behind a cloud. Wild Dog Daisy invader Parahebe Euphorbia characias by my back door My Rose 'Kew Gardens' is pulling out all the stops at the moment.
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Post by Cherry on Jun 26, 2013 16:10:46 GMT
I can see from where you got your love of gardening SteveN. What a lovely simple rose with wonderful lemon colouring.
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Post by SueA on Jun 26, 2013 17:16:24 GMT
Lovely pics. Steve N ! That rose is very pretty, simple but lovely. Noticed my peony Sarah Bernhardt is quietly flowering away between the rose & mahonia!
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Post by Fractal on Jun 26, 2013 18:11:16 GMT
I can see from where you got your love of gardening SteveN. What a lovely simple rose with wonderful lemon colouring. Repeat flowering, healthy and completely thornless too! Win, win, win
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Post by Fractal on Jun 26, 2013 18:13:21 GMT
Nymphaea 'Attraction' in parents pond (while the sun lasted).
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Post by Cherry on Jun 29, 2013 9:00:18 GMT
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