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| Just because Christmas tree and Chrysanthemum both start with the letters CH doesn't mean that they go well together Carmen. |
I would like to thank both Garden News and Amateur Gardening for their free seeds, they really made my garden look an absolute eyesore. I suspect Carol Klein has a hand in choosing the seeds, as much as I admire Carol I find her taste in plants leaves a lot to be desired.
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| Shasta daisies can be found growing wild in any hedgerow in the UK. |
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| Cephalophora, ugly, yellowish green flowers, the one saving grace about these plants are their excellent smell of pineapple. |
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| Cosmos, hideous looking carrot top bush with piss yellow flowers, the picture depicted on the seed packet looked lovely. |
Chrysanthemum x Ragwort and by the look of their opening buds, yet more yellow (see top photo) I can't comment on the Zinnias just yet as they're not in flower.
My maid of all work "that good taste forgot" Carmen, visited a garden centre last year, she came back with a bag of dahlia tubers (cause they were going cheap) and a monkey puzzle tree, yet more green and yellow, you couldn't make it up.
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I was looking forward to having a salmon pink garden this year, ah well, there is always next year, if I'm spared.
And one other thing, my Strong Annabelle hydrangea has been looking like broccoli for weeks!
Oh, poor you. That mixture is rather reminiscent of one of those "let's encourage wildlife" corners they get the thick kids to do out of sight at the back of a junior school.
ReplyDeleteMorrisons has loads of trays of plug plants like pelargoniums, bizzy-lizzies, petunias and fuchsias - 2 for £3. Perfect for filling the gaps and toning-down all that pea-green... Jx
I bought 4 decent looking Scabiosas from Morrison's £2 each, they were charging £8 for 1 at the garden centre, bloody rob dogs, you can just about see it in the first pic, blue. I also bought a Hollyhock and a penstemon 2 for £3 I trimmed a few leaves off the Hollyhock and it has mysteriously disappeared, vanished under all that Cosmos, and countless phlox. Shudders at bizzy-lizzies.
DeleteOh, dear, Mitzi. Carmen's not a fan of Norwich City FC, is she?
ReplyDeleteNo but her school uniform was yellow and green and she had some good times behind the bike sheds at dinner.
DeleteIt's a theme garden, and those are always so very tasteful. You can tell they're tasteful becuase they're ugly.
ReplyDeleteMine isn't tasteful, just ugly.
DeleteThere is always Aidan to look at.
ReplyDeleteThough I am due to post soon, so make the most of him.
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Aidan looks like a gypsy boy I used to know when I was a kid, he took me ratting with his two dogs.
DeleteI've never heard it called that before?!
DeleteIf mother knew the type of people I mixed with when I stayed at grandma's house during the 6wks school holidays, she'd be appalled.
DeleteHe was called Yarb and his sister was called Patricia-Hope she was named after a racing greyhound.
This stuff in pic four looks like ruccola. Ruccola and broccoli do not mix well methinks.
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