I've given up on slug food, particularly lupins and high -maintenance container plants like petunias. I've chucked numerous packets of poppies on 'stony ground' so to speak, and I'm not buying any more
Yes certainly new opportunities! I do miss kerria (because of blight in our area). I Must admit I love a pristine hosta but have to admire them in other people’s gardens 😂
Yes, anything indoorsy that needs to be watered regularly during winters. They will die. If you are a plant that is not hardy for the climate outdoors, you will need to be able to live through droughts.
I will never save Begonia corms again. How am I supposed to know what colour they are after they tumble out of the tub or basket and I dry them over Winter?
They have been sitting around in my lounge since February with their promising red buds, but no indication as to how they will integrate with my tub or basket colour combination.
I've given up on a lot, mostly from learning along the way. I try not to grow slug food - hostas, delphinium, annual lobelia. Increasingly I realise I can't grow alkaline loving plants (unless in pots) or Mediterranean style plants. Rosemary, lavender, oregano. I just don't have enough sun. I am trying instead to grow plants that are really delighted to be in my garden. For me it's the line between understanding what's not very happy in my garden and what I have just not learnt enough about.
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If you live in Derbyshire, as I do.
In the sticks near Peterborough
I've chucked numerous packets of poppies on 'stony ground' so to speak, and I'm not buying any more
blight in our area). I Must admit I love a pristine hosta but have to admire them in other people’s gardens 😂
They have been sitting around in my lounge since February with their promising red buds, but no indication as to how they will integrate with my tub or basket colour combination.
Never again.