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Can I cut back old fashioned pinks after flowering?  Mrs Sinkins and another unnamed pink variety are sprawling everywhere. Just deadhead spent flowers Prue. I wouldn't cut back into the main growth just take the flower stalks away. If the clumps

... looking at some photo's of Claytonia sibirica I think you may be right. This is certainly the closest I have seen yet. AHA!  The Stewarton Flower.  Usually pink so the common name

the pink and white, didn't realise they were hybrids.  We have lots in our allotment, some Spanish and some native too.  The Spanish make very good cut flowers, they last longer in water than the natives.

't know what it is. The packet said L. dalmatica but that's yellow. It's tall and comes in purple, pink and a sprt of beigy colour i thought the blue flowers look like speedwell, but speedwells are veronicas and I can't find a tall one like that. Yes

I have something in my garden [i hate to call it a weed]. it is more than 2m tall,has 2in thick, hollow stems. the flowers are like small pink orchids which bloom from may till september, and grows in a wild part of the garden in semi shade on top

year. Anyone growing this? I have not grown this type of foxglove but did see it on Chelsea Flower Show, really pretty. I grow standard pink ones grow well in my garden look great. Looked pink/ orange colour think.  Like to watch Chelsea Flower Show

, yellow, pink and purple in between.They grow in most conditions, but thrive in well-drained, humus-rich soil, out of direct sunlight. Avoid moving or dividing them once established.Hellebore varieties include:Bears clusters of saucer-shaped flowers

Hello everyone, not seen a single foxglove in flower yet, amazed at how late they are. Lots of healthy leaves and just a start of flower buds on a couple   yep my inspiration pink just opened.  my neighbour has a garden full of seed raised ones

can also get them with pink flowers) once the flower  is over they turn into seed pods.  it is an annual and can grow to around 18" high, so i'm told.  My friend belived with was a Peruvian or chillian vine but it does not appear to be from what i have

I adore single hollyhocks; not the doubles that look like pom-poms. I especially like the creamy/greenish dusky old pink ones. At, possibly Hampton Court Flower Show last year,I asked a vendor of Hollyhocks for this colour and he explained