Identify pink flower please?

Tinks32

Davesnave wrote: »

Don't want to disillusion you, but that did a great job of dying for me after the slugs had pulverised it. I think it was justy too tender for here.

Agree, totally squirrel-proof, though!

Thank you for the warning:) I live in sunny Bournemouth so hopefully it might survive... Yes slugs are almost as bad as the squirrel problem. Maybe I should take a leaf out of my next door neighbour's book and purchase a terrier (for the squirrel problem) and either purchase some chickens or hognap a hedgehog i think the hedgehog is preferable because I have just remembered the fox problem.... Big sigh I am fighting a loosing battle it seems.

Davesnave

My highly experienced chickens wouldn't touch a slug, unless it was a very small one. Too much beak-wiping needed.

Snails are more acceptable, as are voles and mice.

If you do manage to grow the more challenging B multijuga, please put a photo up so that I can see what I've missed.

My favourite Chiltern Seeds packet is the one which is a mixture of whatever they had left over!

Tinks32

Will post picture if I am successful!

I have always fancied buying the bargain packet, but I never have because I think it would drive me mad not to know what I am growing! Or have I misinterpreted the catalogue?
Btw this is one of my fav seed catalogue it sees me through the long winter nights, and is just the right size for reading in the bath! I just wish that there were more photos included.
Who do you use for Sweet Pea seeds? I have just discovered Roger Parsons and Somerset Sweet Peas (if you are interested)!

Davesnave

The mixed bargain packet I avoid, although it does come with a list of what's supposed to be in there. It used to be pretty impossible to find info on half of them, but now we have Google.

I go for the hardy shrubs & trees, on the basis that they are expensive to buy and long in production, so I have time to plan for them.

I'm not a great sweet pea person, but we grew L matucana and a white this year for daughter's wedding, which they'd have been great for, had they flowered then. I have bookmarked Mr Parsons for my DW.(Thanks :A) She will get to grow them again, if I've not used the steel concrete reinforcing mesh they are swarming over now.....

I won't say where I read the Chiltern catalogue in case anyone's having their tea.