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Post by Geranium on Feb 28, 2013 10:15:41 GMT
And did it? ;D
I've just phoned my order through to Parker's (at last!).
I ordered 5 each of
Dahlia 'Akita'
'Karma Choc'
'Roxy'
'Bishop of Oxford'
'Selina'
'Blue Bayou'.
10 Dodecatheon meadia
40 Nerine bowdenii 'Isabel' and
10 Double orange Begonias.
I hope to have some as plants for my plant stall in June - but the Nerines are all for the new wall border, as it faces south.
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Post by Cherry on Feb 28, 2013 12:21:12 GMT
[quote author=geranium board=general thread=2166 post=74985 time=1362046541]And did it? ;D
I've just phoned my order through to Parker's (at last!).
I ordered 5 each of
Dahlia 'Akita'
'Karma Choc'
'Roxy'
'Bishop of Oxford'
'Selina'
'Blue Bayou'.
10 Dodecatheon meadia
40 Nerine bowdenii 'Isabel' and
10 Double orange Begonias.
I hope to have some as plants for my plant stall in June - but the Nerines are all for the new wall border, as it faces south.[/quote]
Of course Geranium. It worked a treat. No witches.
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Post by ladybird on Feb 28, 2013 12:53:19 GMT
The spotty Hellebore is one with a difference. My latest plant purchase is a Rowan tree from Wilkinsons. It has to stand up to the fen winds with no shelter. I have been waiting for Sorbus aucuparia (wild). It is going next to the house car park. When I used to do hillwalking in the Galloway Hills, I noticed that derelict primitive houses always had a Rowan outside, which would still be there. I will have to put a penny underneath to help keep the witches away. I had two rowans at my last house Cherry , loved the scent of the flowers so just had to have one here as well. my latest purchases were bargains from B&Q  and these for £2.99 each from the home bargain shop  |
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Post by grindle on Feb 28, 2013 16:32:59 GMT
my free bareroot perennials arrived from T&M this morning and I got 3 for 2 pks bulbs of glad. nanus at Wilko this morning. They will all have to wait until the weekend, I've been out every day this week, so the weekend is definately going to be a stay at home time  |
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Post by Rosie on Feb 28, 2013 17:27:07 GMT
[quote author=geranium board=general thread=2166 post=74985 time=1362046541 ]And did it? ;D I've just phoned my order through to Parker's (at last!). I ordered 5 each of Dahlia 'Akita' 'Karma Choc' 'Roxy' 'Bishop of Oxford' 'Selina' 'Blue Bayou'. 10 Dodecatheon meadia 40 Nerine bowdenii 'Isabel' and 10 Double orange Begonias. I hope to have some as plants for my plant stall in June - but the Nerines are all for the new wall border, as it faces south. Of course Geranium. It worked a treat. No witches. [/quote] Apart from whe i visited ;D ;D |
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Post by Rosie on Feb 28, 2013 17:28:42 GMT
The spotty Hellebore is one with a difference. My latest plant purchase is a Rowan tree from Wilkinsons. It has to stand up to the fen winds with no shelter. I have been waiting for Sorbus aucuparia (wild). It is going next to the house car park. When I used to do hillwalking in the Galloway Hills, I noticed that derelict primitive houses always had a Rowan outside, which would still be there. I will have to put a penny underneath to help keep the witches away. I had two rowans at my last house Cherry , loved the scent of the flowers so just had to have one here as well. my latest purchases were bargains from B&Q and these for £2.99 each from the home bargain shopIsn't Home Bargains is a fab shop LB, i used to go to the one in Inverurie but a mahoosive one is opening up in the old focus store in Peterhead ;D ;D |
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Post by Geranium on Mar 1, 2013 6:45:06 GMT
I've never come across this shop, Rosie. Is it only oop north?  |
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Post by grindle on Mar 2, 2013 6:28:35 GMT
looks like your nearest one is Bristol G
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Post by Geranium on Mar 2, 2013 7:15:07 GMT
No chance of going there, Grindle! Thanks for finding out.  I spent all my garden vouchers yesterday. I bought a Viburnum plicatum 'Mariesii', a Nandina domestica, a climbing rose 'Lavinia', a white Chaenomeles and two HUGE tubs of chicken poo pellets - they're on offer two for one atm. I had also ordered two more shrubs on-line before I went, a Clerodendron trichotronum and an Elsholtzia stauntonii. I'm hoping to collect the trees next Thursday and when the other two shrubs come I can 'arrange' everything in the area where the pear tree and Buddleia came out. ;D |
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Post by grindle on Mar 2, 2013 8:03:07 GMT
I have the viburnum and love it, I also have 2 nandinas, I've found them to be very slow growing in my garden
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Post by Geranium on Mar 2, 2013 8:05:47 GMT
Does it spread sideways in your garden? I need to give it some space, I think. Yes, I've already got a Nandina and it hasn't grown a lot since I planted it a few years ago.
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Post by peony on Mar 2, 2013 9:59:06 GMT
I have the viburnum and love it, I also have 2 nandinas, I've found them to be very slow growing in my garden I've found the same Grindle, its been in the ground 3 years now and has made hardly any growth although it looks healthy enough. |
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Post by Geranium on Mar 2, 2013 10:54:31 GMT
I looked it up and it only gets to 1 - 1.5m in 10 years!
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Post by grindle on Mar 2, 2013 17:06:41 GMT
 this was it in 2009 I would say it's now not much wider, maybe a foot or so (excuse the tatty fence now long gone ) |
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Post by grindle on Mar 2, 2013 17:07:23 GMT
I have the viburnum and love it, I also have 2 nandinas, I've found them to be very slow growing in my garden I've found the same Grindle, its been in the ground 3 years now and has made hardly any growth although it looks healthy enough. glad it's not just me then, I thought I might be doing something wrong  |
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