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Clarington
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I'm not a flower plant person. Vegetables and fruit I can deal with, but all these plants that pop up and flower are lost on me. I can't even guess what they are!
This rather large and terribly beautiful plant / weed has been growing up by the garage quite happily. Its in what is the designated wildlife / overgrown / where ill looking plants come to die / get a second chance / are stuck in the ground and fingers are crossed area.
It stands at about 4 1/2 ft high.
Any suggestions as to what it is?
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looks like a delphinium
In the sticks near Peterborough
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In the sticks near Peterborough
Doesn't just look like a delphinium - I will bet money on the fact that it is a delphinium
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It's lovely. Definitely not a weed. Lots of people struggle to get them going.
Just a thought - if you've not known it was a delphinium, and consequently you haven't been surrounding it with eggshells, coffee grounds and grit and inspecting it half hourly, what do your slugs, snails and delphinium moths think they're up to??? Slackers the lot of 'em!!!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Maybe they don't hang out behind the garage Dove - they're probably lying in wait in the flower beds. Clarington has taken them by surprise.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I just let it grow like a weed - occasionally running it over with the wheelbarrow, catching it with a lawn mower, squashing it with big feet as I tried to reach the things propped up against the garage, oh and it spent about a month with a ton of sand on top of it not long after it started to grow. I take it this is not standard good delphinium husbandry?!
There are plenty of slugs in the garden I can assure you - those holy hosta thingys were proof enough. My resident frogs just don't seem interested in keeping the ping pong of life balanced!
It seems to be on the dangerous list for chickens alas (we're keen for the chickens to roam a great an area as possible so it'll only be the vegetable garden that's fenced off - all other flower beds will be defended as required if I want any chance of the herb garden being usable!) so it looks like some research is needed as to whether I can move it out of potential suicidal chickens way or whether its future in this garden is limited
The sand will explain why the slugs/snails didn't attack it when it was young and vulnerable!!! Good instinctive gardening skills there Clari!!!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I find that once a delphinium is established, the slugs and snails don't bother it.