On Aug 30, 10:59*pm, "Bob Hobden" wrote:
"Rod" *wrote Ours have done the same to us and they were sown cold and late and
planted late. But hey. don't knock it - they've been a wonderful show
all summer and still going strong. We'll be able to sort out the
'buried' plants when we get the cosmos out in the autumn. After a year
without a garden and deprived of flowers while we moved in here and
worked on the house and workshop my wife specified the new garden -
what she wanted was FLOWERS please. She got them in spades.

Funny enough, my wife told me a couple of years ago that it was about time
we had a pretty garden with flowers instead of a collection of plants. I
wouldn't admit it to her but I actually prefer it too now it's coming along.

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Regards
Bob Hobden
W.of London. UK

Well you know, that's what I thought gardening was about - the edibles
are a given but after that it's flowers and plants. Then during my
last couple of years working a then new colleague started bringing the
glossy Garden fashion mags in to work and it all seemed to be about
garden structures, landscape features, statuary etc. Growing things
took a definite back seat.
All the while I was trying to make a garden that trancended fashion
and was full of happy interesting beautiful (mostly flowering) plants,
that looked comfortable with their neighbours - a very quaint idea.
I'm still doing much the same in the garden we've just made at home
but on a much smaller scale, though the sharp eyed might just spot a
young Magnolia obovata in a corner and I'm hoping it just might flower
while I'm still around to see it. I seem to have drifted o/t a bit but
just one more thing for the original poster - gardens work best if you
allow for a bit of serendipity to happen, too much control and you
lose that charm.

Rod