Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

choille

I hear it's like stringy artichock - but they look super. I have a wildish thistle that looks brill. I stopped at a lodge house nearish here & asked if I could have some that were growing at the side of it. The chap was just about to strim them as weeds, but I saved some. I now notice he's left them unstrimed this year. They grow amongst the stripped grass & semi-cultivated dandelion & look lovely.
The globe thistle looks dried before it is & is okay but not as lovely as sea holly i think.

Davesnave

I have Veitch's Blue flowering away in the front border at present.:D If it survives there, it will cope anywhere in sun, I'd think. It's not 0.9m tall though, more like 1.3m.

EDIT: Cardoons must be blanched if the stems are wanted for eating. We once planted cardoons when someone nicked a few artichokes we'd just planted out when we had an allotment.

They nicked those as well, as expected. We knew the flower heads would disappoint them. :rotfl:

I_have_spoken

Shaggy dahlias are enjoying the sun...



I like the 'spikey' plants so have echinops, cardoon and eryngiums in the garden.

Rummer

They are stunning IHS!

I need to add more to my borders. The shaded one is quite full and there is a good balance of different coloured foliage however most of the flowering plants have passed now so I want to put in things that flower now.

The sunny border looks marvellous however there is plenty of space to plant things so I will need to think about what will fit. White/blue/lilac/purple would look perfect with the lavender and the hebe.

Oh quick question for you all we are having a garden party next week so I want to fill my pots with flowers, what should I be looking for at the garden centre?

choille

Fushias, gerbias, lavender, geraniums, bissie lizzies etc. I got some very beautiful white butterfly lavender in Morissons last week & mauve & white ballon flowers - so cheap. I find Morrissons excellent for plants...Passion flowers at £2 etc.

lostinrates

I_have_spoken wrote: »

Shaggy dahlias are enjoying the sun...



I like the 'spikey' plants so have echinops, cardoon and eryngiums in the garden.

Can I have a picture of the cardoon?

I_have_spoken

Cardoon, still quite small...



Echinops. NB the perpetual sweet pea has already gone all the way up one side the of the pergola!

lostinrates

Thank you I have spoken, gorgeous. I think they might well be cardoons, the things I saw with Alfie.



Alfie, that furniture I mentioned I'd seen and was going to show DH, here's the pic from a magazine, its scaffold boards....

I like it, very 'us', don't you think?

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Hi all,


Alfie.. thanks, even though I was a bit of a misog.. you did make me get back into focus... every penny a prisoner !!!


right time for a can of larger and to stuff my face with a cadbury finger of fudge mmmmm

lostinrates

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Hi all,


Alfie.. thanks, even though I was a bit of a misog.. you did make me get back into focus... every penny a prisoner !!!


right time for a can of larger and to stuff my face with a cadbury finger of fudge mmmmm

did Alfie tell you my hare brained first thoughts?

I have my pork!! So excited, going to be pork fest next weekend!