As if at this time next year it's going to pop up again and remind me. A month or six weeks ago the first of my left in the ground Dahlias started to appear. They were all left in the ground, the only ones in pots were a couple I'd bought as bare tubers. I'd…
Garden plants
The end of an Acer.
It seems that this is the year it must happen. The oldest plant in our garden is an Acer palmatum ‘Atropurpureum’ that was a young plant just a couple of feet tall when we moved in over thirty years ago. I know it’s the oldest because it is the only plant still left that was…
Potting.
Back in November I noticed fruits on Fuchsia glazioviana growing in the garden. This is a quite small grower with often good leaf colour so well worth growing. I wondered if it had picked up pollen from something interesting, so I picked a few fruits, extracted the seeds and sowed them. They germinated very quickly…
Shopping trip-2
A week ago, I went to Barracott Plants on a plant hunting expedition, coming home with enough goodies to write a blog about, which I duly did. Trouble was , a couple of things I'd been wanting I was unable to find and the nursery owner was away so I was advised to come back.…
Shopping trip
You know how it goes; you go to a garden, Rosemoor in this instance and see a plant you simply must have, Polygonatum x hybridum 'Betburg' on this outing. You get home and look at the RHS website to see who is listing it; excellent, a nursery quite close by, Barracott Plants, at Gunnislake. Thought…