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Foxgloves

On 28/07/2008 in Unassigned

wonderful biennial, so are naturally short-lived, but lending a hand with their propagation ensures they'll be around to be enjoyed for many years to come.


Spring Garden

On 27/08/2012 in forum

baskets and take the basket out after they have finished flowering. I also have clay soil and the tulips do not last, I grow them in pots and daffodils in the ground.  I would also add biennials, wallflowers, honesty, sweet rocket. Go with the flow


Planting wallflowers

On 03/10/2012 in forum

. I haven't fed my biennial types but I have given the bowles mauve ones a bit of feed during the summer


Should I dig up my Allysum?

On 17/10/2012 in forum

to grow strongly next spring. This works well if you have an informal garden; good plants to try this with are poppies. If you want to plant things now, though, pull up your alyssum and plant away. By the way, other types of plants are biennials, which


finding my threads

On 06/03/2013 in forum

sowing their biennial s and perennial s, it may pick up again then.


euphorbia characias black pearl

On 21/04/2013 in forum

to several feet in some cases and am eager to keep it under control. Hiya Steve,I do not allow,flowers on my coloured or variegated euphorbias to form...I grow for foliage colour.Many euphorbias become biennial if flowered stems are not cut soon enough


How to sow seeds outdoors

On 20/07/2011 in Projects: Propagating

use this technique to grow flowering perennials and biennials as well as hardy annuals to brighten up you beds and borders. Sow into weed-free soil that has been dug, forked and raked to create a fine surface structure or 'tilth'. SeedsArea of prepared


Parsnips

On 20/12/2010 in Gardeners' musings

of the mark on those two statements.Parsnips, like carrots are biennials. This means that they flower in the second year but we tend to have eaten them all before they get to flowering stage, so we seldom see the rather fabulous yellow flower - the carrot has


Growing honesty

On 10/05/2013 in Plants

the seed shortly after removing the paving slabs in, what until then had been the courtyard (and is now my garden). Being biennial, the plants took two years to flower. Now, however, I have flowers every year, as they sow themselves around the garden


Digitalis

On 17/04/2013 in forum

the Digitalis 'Excelsior Hybrid' strain which I loved very much and found it very easy to grow - biennial of course... they were just such a pleasure.  I keep meaning to return to them at some point... Brumball, I have some Dalmation purple (also Dalmation peach


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