Many years ago Emma sent me the seeds of Primula japonica. they are thriving. [img] ( photo / image / picture from Palustris's Garden )...
I have just added Hedera helix Duck Foot. I also have about 100 pictures of other Hedera forms if you want them.
Once the flowers have turned to seed, is the time to look for the bulbs. they could be deep!
The Allium family is huge and they come in all colours except perhaps bright red. For our American cousins California is full of wonderful dwarf...
It is a bulb, so once it has finished flowering and produced seeds it dies down for the summer. It needs a good hot dry period to ripen the bulb...
Sadly this is not a good show plant as the leaves begin to die as the flowers open. However, it does look rather good. Each flower is about 3...
Cut them on a dry day and freeze spread out on a tray. That way they remain seperate when frozen.
Lysichiton americanus(Skunk Cabbage) is on the list of plants which may not be planted in Britain. It is taking over many streamsides to the...
Not any kind of Poppy I know.
[img] Arum purpurescens. Sadly something has eaten half of the spathes, not sure what eats these things. They are pollenated by flies so the...
Not looking as good as it has done, but the Winter was very destructive and since I am not able to walk that well, most of the work has fallen on...
Arisaema sikkokianum is what it is, as Eileen says. If you are lucky and you get seeds, they need to be sown fresh. Cleaning off the flesh is a...
As long as you can tell the difference betwixt the flower seedlings and the weed seedlings which will grow.
Last weekend I bought some Auriculas from Hillview Hardy Plants in Worfield near Bridgnorth. when I got home I discovered they were riddled with...
The Spiraea is S. arguta. We have another Chaenomeles called C.j. nivalis but it is not in flower. We also have some other Ribes too, again not...
A few of the trees and shrubs in flower in ours yesterday. [img] Acer davidii [img] Acer purpurescens [img]...
And the white flowers are all what is known as 'pin eyed'. The other type of primrose flower is called 'thrum eyed'. Pin eyed becasue if you look...
You lucky person. I have planted these a few times, but they do not thrive here.
Scilla for sure, would need a close up to say which one exactly. Pulsatilla vulgaris is the first one, but again would need to be able to count...
Spider mites are too small to see with the naked eye and are not red. You probably disturbed a new hatching of 'blood spiders' They are tiny...
