Saved seed rarely germinates,unless it is stored in optimum conditions. Like all members of the family the seed has only a very short life span....
Very similar to this one [img] It is a Garden Tiger moth. Used to be common, but is now in very serious decline.
As an ex Widnesian, only too glad to help!
Allium siculum seed head. Used to be Nectaroscordum siculum. I think they are sometimes called Honeybells as the flowers sweetly scented.
Aconitum, but there are a lot of different species and varieties so not sure which particular one.
Sorry, i meant 'alnifolia' I was typing in plant names else where at the same time.
Got this and did not recognise it. More flowers on yours than on mine though.
Try Clethra alternifolia
I have made Nettle fertiliser, but the stench is so appalling I only did it the once. You can eat young Nettle leaves, wilted like Spinach....
Dock leaves only work in folks imaginations. A lot of work was done somewhere on folk remedies for nettle stings and they found none of them...
Double pink Deutzias [img] ( photo / image / picture from Palustris's Garden ) Not sure of the name of that one. This is Strawberry Fair...
Sadly, no, they have no discernible scent. There are some other coloured versions of it though. I have a couple of really nice pink double ones.
Deutzia scabra, possibly Pride of Rochester, though there are other D. scabra with similar flowers.
Funny that the perennial ones do not like being moved for you as the best way to propagate named types is by root cuttings. I find that moving...
That is Fringed Patty's Plum.
The seeds of the annual poppy (Papaver rhoeas aka Flanders poppy) can survive in the soil for over 50 years. All they need then is a few minutes...
The Aquilegia hybrids look right to me. They do come in all sorts of colour combinations. Sadly they do tend to self seed all over the place and...
Bellis perennis flore plena of various hues.
Ah, but if you actually walked around you would be able to see the weeds and the areas in desperate need of refurbishment.
Here we go again, another wander round the old homestead. Tried to take different angles this time, but not easy....
