Daydream fund challenge part 4

Fay

Happy birthday CTC_party_

Davesnave

Rummer wrote: »

Thank you Dave and Alfie for the Sweet William info, I will not rip them out this year

In the tubs where I have Hyacinths what can I plant in them that will come up after them year after year? I am tired of having to replace bedding plants and am looking for an ongoing solution however I seem to drawn to plants that only last a season. My pots are filled with shades of blue, purple and white so those colours would be grand.

IHS does this so much better than me.:o I'm afraid my tubs are just one thing and at the time the hyacinths are in bloom, still not doing much!

White.....dianthus?

Purple & blue....err campanula (rockery type with unpronounceable name) and maybe pulmonaria?

Going offline shortly for a while. Not long. Stuff to do....:cool:

Happy birthday CTC :bdaycake:< Bacon cake!

lostinrates

Happy birthday CTC!

lostinrates

None of the white field poppies I sowed came up. I'm really sad about that, I had the idea that they'd settle in and sow themselves every year.:(.

I do love poppies.

Weeding is like a madman's job right now, pulling things out by the arm load. Davesnave is probably smugly thinking about better preparation avoiding these issues.....;)

Finally pulled out the gone to seed rocket today. It looked far too beautiful until today, so I did it quickly while the barrow was there. dreaming about what herbs to get next.....

Rummer

lostinrates wrote: »

dreaming about what herbs to get next.....

We bought borage this year and the bees love it, I however find it a massive and prickly thing and wish I had planted it away from the path

Our garden is being planted for bees and butterflies and to encourage wildlife where possible.

lostinrates

Rummer wrote: »

We bought borage this year and the bees love it, I however find it a massive and prickly thing and wish I had planted it away from the path

Our garden is being planted for bees and butterflies and to encourage wildlife where possible.

I love borage. I just love it. When people talk about mecanopsis being the only blue flower I just think about borage.

We have some white borage too, but i just love borage.

lucielle

Hippy birdy CTC.
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Rummer

lostinrates wrote: »

I love borage. I just love it. When people talk about mecanopsis being the only blue flower I just think about borage.

We have some white borage too, but i just love borage.

I love the look of it and the bees it brings however I have brushed against it on my way past and it is not a pleasant plant to bump into. White Borage could be useful in my garden if I located it in the right place this time.

choille

Poppies are odd things - sometimes they take two years to come after planting seeds I've found in the past.

Borage I love too, but I've killed two lots here. Could grow it where I used to live but for some reason I can't here. It makes a strange drink & the flowers look wonderful in ice cubes - borage for courage - it used to be drunk in a beer before battle in! And yes, the bees love it too.

Well went off & bought a dresser off Gumtree that I'll paint to match the kitchen unit doors. It's a Laura Ashley one & I probably shouldn't have, but it will sit on the inner gable wall - different roof heights. It will be handy for cookbooks & pretty things. Must get it out of the car 1st thing tomorrow - also found a chair at the side of the road - a directors one, but a heavy one - like teak. Very odd to find it like that. Shouldn't really treat the new car in such a Cavalier fashion................

Nettles & thistles are also good for bees & butterflies! Buddleih is grand too & pretty.

alfie_1

morning all...


good find re the chair choille!!


budliah ....... I have just found amongst my stockpile of pots with random stuff in [stuffed in a corner of the drive] that I thought hadn't "made it" AND I found the WHITE budliah that LIR gave me at my last house :j im not sure if its the original or a self sown but it has 2 perfect likkle white blooms I seem to think it was a "piece" I stuck in the soil ....


today is overcast,mild and a slight drizzle in the breeze.
I managed to mow some of the bottom lawn [like a field ] last evening.