Dovefromabove

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MORNING FORKERS

Posted: 17/05/2013 at 08:45

Hello - I'm back again - the GP surgery have just phoned to change my appointment to Monday as the Doc I was seeing is off sick I'm not an urgent case so I've got another appointment for Monday afternoon. And I've got a visit this side of the city at 10.30 and some TOIL owing, so I'll stay home and eat toast for a bit

MORNING FORKERS

Posted: 17/05/2013 at 08:30

I think he's more of a Baron - Baron Verdun of the Hellebores

Right, off to work - have a good day folks

Weed or not?

Posted: 17/05/2013 at 07:56

Sazac wrote (see)

Oh that does not sound like fun, I'm already over run by bamboo!

Thank you!

They're lovely plants - you won''t get over-run by them - they just self-seed -that's what happy and healthy plants do. Otherwise you'd be better off without a garden

Weed or not?

Posted: 17/05/2013 at 07:53

Yes - my eyesight must be better than I thought

The pink flowering plant at the back is Aquilegia (aka Columbine, Granny's Bonnet) - it comes in several different colours and flower shapes and happily cross-pollinates with other aquilegias and self sows itself around - a lovely plant to have.

In front of that is Alchemilla mollis (Lady's mantle). The leaves look gorgeous holding raindrops in the morning sun - it'll have greeny-yellow flowers on it later -(they look gorgeous in a vase with pink roses). Later in the season after it's flowered and begins to look straggly, just chop it back to a few inches above the ground and it'll quickly send out lovely fresh leaves again.

It'll also self-seed happily and next spring you'lll begin to notice little ones popping up nearby - you'll be able to transplant them to where you want them easily in the moist sort of weather we're getting at the moment, or pot them up and give them to your friends and fellow gardeners as swapsies - you'll be a real gardener then

What plant is this?

Posted: 17/05/2013 at 07:45

Looks like a hardy geranium to me - although it's looking very lush for this early in the year - is your garden in a lovely sheltered spot?

If I'm right it'll have some lovely pink or blue flowers later in the summer - post a pic of them and we'll know if I'm right The bees will love it.

Help :(

Posted: 17/05/2013 at 07:42

One way to guarantee that they will survive is to sow another batch - it always works for me and I end up with twice as many as I need

Help :(

Posted: 17/05/2013 at 07:40

We've all got our fingers crossed for you

bulbs, daffs, tulips, hyacinths, alliums

Posted: 17/05/2013 at 07:39

I agree bookmonster. I've always popped indoor forced hyacinths into the garden for the following year and they do flower, although not as showy as in the first year.

Can't grow indoor ones now as they make OH a bit wheezy.

Last year I had some hyacinths in tubs outside - I treated them the same as I did the tulips in my post above, and then put them into tubs again, with violas etc for the winter - this spring the hyacinths have all bloomed again almost as well as in their first year