Perennials with the WoW factor – on a budget

blossomhill_2

SailorSam wrote: »

I know after watching Chelsea, some of the gardens and plants are breathtaking but the cost !!!

But it is sometimes worth buying one really special one that you can take cuttings from

I have concentrated on plants that will generate cuttings, over the last few years - yesterday I potted up 8 lovely Japanese anemomes that I'd divided and thought would come to nothing. Today 20 purple-leaved hebes, 2 hibiscus, 4 tayberries, 8 laurels and about 30 pale peach chenomoles that were from seeds from the fruit
Sunday about 20 lavender and 2 types of mint from cuttings ... all for free

I have go to learn to do clematis now! :T

nlj1520

Hello Epsomoldie!
I will know what sort of poppies when they flower.....I think they are just wild ones. Last year I had about half a dozen huge, blowzy bright red ones with black 'fingerpaint' smudges at the base of each petal.....I think they may have been a variety called 'Ladybird', but my memory is pretty rubbish these days!
Also had one large pale pink one. the foliage on the ones this year is grey/green and BIG, which makes me think it's the red ones. Hope so. They haven't planted themselves where I would have chosen, but have left them alone.

VfM4meplse

Post some pics blossomhill? I have a serious case of garden envy (everything dies in mine).

VfM4meplse

blossomhill wrote: »

Well I tried ... any tips how to insert pics into posts?

Put your cursor on the image in photobucket, right click and copy - then paste into the thread by right-clicking and selecting paste. Looking fwd to it...

blossomhill_2

Hope it is worth it!

Iris siberica in a shady corner – with yellow laurel salvaged from a demolition site


Peony (in bud), yellow iris (inbud) and cornflower salvaged from a demolition site, under a £5 market acer



Self-seeding columbine/aquilegia



Self seeded foxglove growing in cracks in cobble path



Johnson’s blue geranium (photo is paler than actual flower)



Rose – happy accident – growing up through photinia red robin



Albertine rose – were 3 for £10 and the spread is about10foot – flowers are more peachy than in photo



James Galway rose – was free except for postage



Money saving arch – just twine the James Galway stems together!

blossomhill_2

...and the Chelsea paeonies

VfM4meplse

^^^^ :T:T:T Well done, fabulous flowers!

My thin strip of blooms at the front from last year:

blossomhill_2

Vfm - Wow though - look at yours compared to your neighbours'! You certainly cheered up the gritty east end! Have you gone for red white and blue this year?

I live in a suburb and not many front gardens have flowers, mostly turned over to driveways so when we had ours put in I decided to make sure we had a bed for small trees and flowers - and the birds congrgate in ours so I am glad I made the decision

torbrex

I have not bought many plant for years, I get and give plants on freecycle
Last years garden around August

blossomhill_2

Yay! someone else after my own heart - I wish I could grow Phlox, we have a virus round here that wipes them out

When I saw a post the other day for someone asking if they could do a garden for £50 I thought "why so expensive?"

What is the pink in pic 3? oleander, hebe ???

and I wish I was in your freeyccle area - no-one does plants on mine!