Whats your latest plant purchase?

grindle Top Member Tamar Valley Posts: 19,750	Whats your latest plant purchase? Jul 29, 2012 6:55:05 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by grindle on Jul 29, 2012 6:55:05 GMT beautiful colour

esther Top Member Posts: 2,677	Whats your latest plant purchase? Jul 29, 2012 11:11:00 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by esther on Jul 29, 2012 11:11:00 GMT I bought one a couple of years ago Geranium - easy peasy to take cuttings from ;D
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Lou78W Top Member Posts: 9,402	Whats your latest plant purchase? Jul 29, 2012 11:56:26 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Lou78W on Jul 29, 2012 11:56:26 GMT I'll second that
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Geranium Top Member Posts: 13,081	Whats your latest plant purchase? Jul 30, 2012 6:08:35 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Geranium on Jul 30, 2012 6:08:35 GMT That's good. Is now a good time, or a little later?

Lou78W Top Member Posts: 9,402	Whats your latest plant purchase? Jul 30, 2012 6:55:02 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Lou78W on Jul 30, 2012 6:55:02 GMT Now is ok... ;D
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Whats your latest plant purchase? Jul 30, 2012 8:40:48 GMT

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Post by Fractal on Jul 30, 2012 8:40:48 GMT

Stipa gigantea and S. arundinacea. I love grasses (some anyway) and they look so good against other plants usually as the supporting cast but not Stipa gigantea. First rate garden plant and the seed heads just get better and better as they age to pale gold. Last so long too!

I know the other one is a bit of a seeder but its just so beautiful with its lovely arching habit and coppery, bronze/olive foliage and seed heads.

Fractal Top Member Posts: 1,859	Whats your latest plant purchase? Jul 30, 2012 8:42:00 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Fractal on Jul 30, 2012 8:42:00 GMT ....plus I can lift the hundreds of seedlings out of the gravel and pot them on to give away!

Rosie Global Moderator Rambling Rosie. Posts: 9,407	Whats your latest plant purchase? Jul 30, 2012 9:11:35 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Rosie on Jul 30, 2012 9:11:35 GMT I love Stipa Gigantia. I have one in a pot somewhere and i call it Michael after Michael Stipe(a) ;D ;D
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Whats your latest plant purchase? Jul 30, 2012 9:25:58 GMT

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Jul 30, 2012 9:11:35 GMT Rosie said:

I love Stipa Gigantia. I have one in a pot somewhere and i call it Michael after Michael Stipe(a) ;D ;D

Thats Corny! ;D...get it?

Somewhere?, you mean to say you've lost it???

Haven't thought of giving my plants names...yet.

Geranium Top Member Posts: 13,081	Whats your latest plant purchase? Jul 30, 2012 16:54:38 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Geranium on Jul 30, 2012 16:54:38 GMT Jul 30, 2012 8:42:00 GMT Fractal said: ....plus I can lift the hundreds of seedlings out of the gravel and pot them on to give away! They sell well on my plant stall, too! ;D

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Whats your latest plant purchase? Jul 30, 2012 20:48:49 GMT

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Post by Fractal on Jul 30, 2012 20:48:49 GMT

Another grass today, well three of another of my favourites, Helichtotrichon sempervirens or Golden Oats grass if you like.

Beautiful, tough, narrow blue-green leaves (bigger in all parts than Festuca glauca) and long arching spiklets of flower heads that turn golden.

This completes my dry, Mediterranean style hot sunny border, that includes Euphorbia characias, Artemisia schmiditiana, Euphorbia pithyusa and contrasting Astelia Red Devil and an orange/coppery Carex that has seeded so just popped these in to break up the greys and silvers.

Fractal Top Member Posts: 1,859	Whats your latest plant purchase? Jul 30, 2012 21:01:54 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Fractal on Jul 30, 2012 21:01:54 GMT ...Agapanthus 'Northern Star' which has been in for a number of years and has loads of flower buds for a shot of colour too.

Geranium Top Member Posts: 13,081	Whats your latest plant purchase? Jul 31, 2012 5:53:40 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Geranium on Jul 31, 2012 5:53:40 GMT I've got Helichtotrichon sempervirens in my garden - I blame Beth Chatto. ;D

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Whats your latest plant purchase? Jul 31, 2012 7:40:52 GMT

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Jul 30, 2012 9:25:58 GMT Fractal said:

Jul 30, 2012 9:11:35 GMT Rosie said:

I love Stipa Gigantia. I have one in a pot somewhere and i call it Michael after Michael Stipe(a) ;D ;D

Thats Corny! ;D...get it?

Somewhere?, you mean to say you've lost it???

Haven't thought of giving my plants names...yet.

;D ;D ;D ;D

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Whats your latest plant purchase? Aug 5, 2012 14:28:07 GMT

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Post by candyblue on Aug 5, 2012 14:28:07 GMT

Today I bought the following for £1 each at the bargain garden centre,nice plants should do well for next year
- white double hollyhock
- dark pink double hollyhock
- magenta colour delphinium
- white delphinium
-very dark blue delphinium
- white lupin
- pink lupin

Very pleased with my purchases as I was going to sow some from seed but this has saved me doing so

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