Verdun

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Good Evening FORKERS - Page 2

Posted: 14/04/2013 at 19:23

Hello mummy muddy paws
Hope you enjoyed your ginger beer
Hope you enjoyed my rather good joke..........I'm still laughing so it must have been special

The orientalis ones flower now before the foliage.
Red dahlia, orientalis ARE evergreen. The usual practice is to cut the leaves off in December to allow the big fat flower buds to be seen emerging. You will see this from January and those buds elongate Into 45cm flower stems. Soon leaves will form and your plant becomes a mass of lush-looking leaves that will remain until you again cut them next December.
There are different hellebores.....you have Niger but Corsicus is another and there are others.
Orientalis are the stars of this family

Plants for summer scent

Posted: 14/04/2013 at 19:10

That's true m0rce
I had purple surfinias one year and the scent was intoxicating

Good Evening FORKERS - Page 2

Posted: 14/04/2013 at 19:07

Good evening everybody.
Hope good day for all
Weather not too bad this pm....sun tried at times
Hey, whats big red and round sitting on my lettuce just now? It's..................a tomato
..........I'll get my coat

Plants for summer scent

Posted: 14/04/2013 at 18:57

I really meant annuals or perennials for summer scent.....nicotiana. For example?

One of my helebores

Posted: 14/04/2013 at 18:50

Go for orientalis type. Red lady is well known. Orientalis are evergreen red dalia. When you really get into hellebores the colour range is from white through to purple and black. Check out harvington hellebores or ashwood nurseries for colours available

Blanket weed!

Posted: 14/04/2013 at 18:30

And try to grow water lilies and other plants to cover at least 40% of pond surface. Prob wrong on that % but it's what I always aim for. Sunlight helps algae and blanket weed to grow. Oxygenating plants too are important so make sure ??ou have plenty of those.
Fish too create conditions for algae to grow.....it may sound cruel but I cut out fish food and the fish then ate the algae.
Prb wildlife folk will think me mean......but, have you seen the cost of fish food lately?