25-04-2009, 01:28 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by K
dina writes
Hi,
I moved house the last summer .The garden was nice, a bit wild with
different kind of flowers like fuschia,
Fuchsia was named after a Mr Fuchs. Strange how nearly everyone
mis-spells it ;-)
roses,
primroses,forget-me-not,geraniums etc. The winter has past and now my
garden looks very different. Totaly new flowers emerged which I did not
plant .Some of them are bluebells,
They'll die down by mid summer.
brookside,
?? Brooklime? But that likes very wt conditions, so is it perhaps
germander speedwell?
some unkown which I have
yet to discover (once they start blooming),deffodils, wild hyiacints(?)
Daffodils and hyacinths will also die down by mid summer, so you can
safely leave them ready to bring some colour next spring. By wild
hyacinth, so you mean something that looks like a rather skinny pot
hyacinth (in which case it is probably just that - they don't do very
well if you keep them in pots year after year, but will go on for years
in the garden as a sort of rather tubby bluebell) or do you mean a bulb
with a few blue flowers on separate stalks, which is perhaps a scilla?
and STRAWBERRIES(Irecognise their leaves) all over the place!
They may be garden strawberries, or they may be alpine type - fruit
about marble size but incredibly intense flavour, well worth having in a
garden.
It all
looks very interesting but the problem is there are TOO many of all
these flowers, I have a feeling that they will suffocate each other if
I dont do somethig about it.
It's a matter of making a lot of small decisions 'which of these two
plants do I like most?' The bulbs will die down later in the year, so
aren't a problem unless you have something choice and early trying to
struggle up underneath them. And some people find bluebells invasive, so
they limit their spread by pulling up any that are in the wrong place.
If you leave something to grow, it is not irreversible - you can pull it
out later. If on the other hand you pull something up now, then that is
irreversible! So I'd be inclined to pull out as little as possible. Just
watch what is happening, what is growing where, and just clear a little
space round any treasures that emerge if you think they need it.
I also moved into a garden with a lot of plants, and lots of alpine type
strawberries - they grow anywhere that I haven't planted anything else.
So what I did, once I knew what I had (ideally take a full year just
seeing what grows where in all the seasons) was decide the things I
liked, and the things that I didn't feel were pulling their weight or
which were just too abundant. So, for example, whenever I wanted to
plant a clump of anything, I'd dig out a Sedum spectabile to make room
;-)
And I've now decided to limit strawberries to a 6inch border around all
the beds. There may be no limit to how many strawberries I can eat, but
there is a limit to how many I have the patience to pick!
The upshot of all this is - don't panic! You have time to watch things,
and make space around anything that seems to be struggling. You can let
the garden tell you what you need to do.
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Kay |
Hi,
thank you very much for all your replies. I like my garden the way it is but I wonder these flowers like daffodils,hycints, tulips(my husband planted them last autumn) , something which I think are wild hyacints? (they are bulbs,blue-each flower on one stem and have VERY long thin leaves like a grass.They look very pretty and they spread all over the place but they are drying out now.) I wonder should I simply let all these bulb plants(including deffodils) dry,without taking them out? I want to have them again next year.It is really interesting to watch all these different flowers grow and bloom at different time of the year.
There is one more thing. I would like to know which kind of plant is this:
it has leaves shape like dandalions but longer, it is high about almost 30-40inch.,even the flowers are yelow,shape like dandalions but more of them.It is like a bush.I am not sure I like it but I would like to know if it is wild. Does anybody know ?
Dina
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