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Hardy annuals
Looking for suggestions and its years since growing any hardy annuals.
Have been remodelling part of the garden and it will be a couple of years until the permanent planting is looking good so need to fill some big gaps. I want to sow in situ It must be medium to big in size. Not too prone to slug attack as the new area has masses of vegetable matter in the soil and is bound to be very sluggy. Not bothered about colour. Any suggestions? -- Charlie, gardening in Cornwall. http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk Holders of National Plant Collections of Clematis viticella (cvs) and Lapageria rosea |
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"Charlie Pridham" wrote in message ... Looking for suggestions and its years since growing any hardy annuals. Have been remodelling part of the garden and it will be a couple of years until the permanent planting is looking good so need to fill some big gaps. I want to sow in situ It must be medium to big in size. Not too prone to slug attack as the new area has masses of vegetable matter in the soil and is bound to be very sluggy. Not bothered about colour. Any suggestions? -- Charlie, gardening in Cornwall. http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk Holders of National Plant Collections of Clematis viticella (cvs) and Lapageria rosea Sun or shade Charlie ? Great swaths of night scented stocks would smell amazing Phlox Sweet peas - would could grow them up something to fill tall gaps Cosmos Foxgloves - there are nice varieties about nowadays - I know they are biennials, but they seed about so well:~) Lavatera HTH Jenny |
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"JennyC" wrote in message ... "Charlie Pridham" wrote in message ... Looking for suggestions and its years since growing any hardy annuals. Have been remodelling part of the garden and it will be a couple of years until the permanent planting is looking good so need to fill some big gaps. I want to sow in situ It must be medium to big in size. Not too prone to slug attack as the new area has masses of vegetable matter in the soil and is bound to be very sluggy. Not bothered about colour. Any suggestions? -- Charlie, gardening in Cornwall. http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk Holders of National Plant Collections of Clematis viticella (cvs) and Lapageria rosea Sun or shade Charlie ? Great swaths of night scented stocks would smell amazing Phlox Sweet peas - would could grow them up something to fill tall gaps Cosmos Cosmos are not hardy (I think) but are very very good plants. Purity have beautiful snow white flowers and keep flowering from July to end October. They easily grow in one season from seeds in trays in late April/May. Christopher Lloyd recommended Cosmos purity to be grown with (have forgotten name here :-) ehh Mexican sunflower thing .... Compositae with bright orange flowers; grows to 4-5 feet/1.5 metres high and also a half hardy annual; sow in seed trays at same time as Cosmos. We did them together one year and it was stunning. The following year it was Arctic and then very windy for may and june and they never got going and I never did it since. Des Foxgloves - there are nice varieties about nowadays - I know they are biennials, but they seed about so well:~) Lavatera HTH Jenny |
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"Des Higgins" wrote in message . ie... "JennyC" wrote in message ... "Charlie Pridham" wrote in message ... Looking for suggestions and its years since growing any hardy annuals. Have been remodelling part of the garden and it will be a couple of years until the permanent planting is looking good so need to fill some big gaps. I want to sow in situ It must be medium to big in size. Not too prone to slug attack as the new area has masses of vegetable matter in the soil and is bound to be very sluggy. Not bothered about colour. Any suggestions? -- Charlie, gardening in Cornwall. http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk Holders of National Plant Collections of Clematis viticella (cvs) and Lapageria rosea Sun or shade Charlie ? Great swaths of night scented stocks would smell amazing Phlox Sweet peas - would could grow them up something to fill tall gaps Cosmos Cosmos are not hardy (I think) but are very very good plants. Purity have beautiful snow white flowers and keep flowering from July to end October. They easily grow in one season from seeds in trays in late April/May. Christopher Lloyd recommended Cosmos purity to be grown with (have forgotten name here :-) ehh Mexican sunflower thing .... Compositae with bright orange flowers; Remembered/googled now: Tithonia rotundifolia; used to be able to get the species or varity Torch from T+M but now they have a mixed colour one only. Can probably get them from Chiltern. It looked so well combined with the Cosmos purity that people used to stop and point at them in our front garden. grows to 4-5 feet/1.5 metres high and also a half hardy annual; sow in seed trays at same time as Cosmos. We did them together one year and it was stunning. The following year it was Arctic and then very windy for may and june and they never got going and I never did it since. Des Foxgloves - there are nice varieties about nowadays - I know they are biennials, but they seed about so well:~) Lavatera HTH Jenny |
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"Des Higgins" wrote in message . ie... "Des Higgins" wrote in message . ie... "JennyC" wrote in message ... "Charlie Pridham" wrote in message ... Christopher Lloyd recommended Cosmos purity to be grown with (have forgotten name here :-) ehh Mexican sunflower thing .... Compositae with bright orange flowers; Remembered/googled now: Tithonia rotundifolia; used to be able to get the species or varity Torch from T+M but now they have a mixed colour one only. Can probably get them from Chiltern. It looked so well combined with the Cosmos purity that people used to stop and point at them in our front garden. Des There's a name I had not heard of before, I will look it up -- Charlie, gardening in Cornwall. http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk Holders of National Plant Collections of Clematis viticella (cvs) and Lapageria rosea |
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"Charlie Pridham" wrote in message ... "Des Higgins" wrote in message . ie... "Des Higgins" wrote in message . ie... "JennyC" wrote in message ... "Charlie Pridham" wrote in message ... Christopher Lloyd recommended Cosmos purity to be grown with (have forgotten name here :-) ehh Mexican sunflower thing .... Compositae with bright orange flowers; Remembered/googled now: Tithonia rotundifolia; used to be able to get the species or varity Torch from T+M but now they have a mixed colour one only. Can probably get them from Chiltern. It looked so well combined with the Cosmos purity that people used to stop and point at them in our front garden. Des There's a name I had not heard of before, I will look it up Like Cosmos though, they are not hardy. -- Charlie, gardening in Cornwall. http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk Holders of National Plant Collections of Clematis viticella (cvs) and Lapageria rosea |
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Cosmos are not hardy (I think) but are very very good plants. Purity have beautiful snow white flowers and keep flowering from July to end October. They easily grow in one season from seeds in trays in late April/May. Christopher Lloyd recommended Cosmos purity to be grown with (have forgotten name here :-) ehh Mexican sunflower thing .... Compositae with bright orange flowers; grows to 4-5 feet/1.5 metres high and also a half hardy annual; sow in seed trays at same time as Cosmos. We did them together one year and it was stunning. The following year it was Arctic and then very windy for may and june and they never got going and I never did it since. I've found that a lot of Compositae are very prone to slug damage - cornflower, sunflower for example. I've stopped sowing annuals straight into the garden - the young shoots are too vulnerable. Things which are nibbled as soon as they emerge from the soil often survive a lot better if they're planted out about 6 inches high. -- Kay |
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On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:28:36 +0000, Des Higgins wrote:
"JennyC" wrote in message ... "Charlie Pridham" wrote in message ... Looking for suggestions and its years since growing any hardy annuals. Have been remodelling part of the garden and it will be a couple of years until the permanent planting is looking good so need to fill some big gaps. I want to sow in situ It must be medium to big in size. Not too prone to slug attack as the new area has masses of vegetable matter in the soil and is bound to be very sluggy. Not bothered about colour. Any suggestions? -- Charlie, gardening in Cornwall. http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk Holders of National Plant Collections of Clematis viticella (cvs) and Lapageria rosea Sun or shade Charlie ? Great swaths of night scented stocks would smell amazing Phlox Sweet peas - would could grow them up something to fill tall gaps Cosmos Cosmos are not hardy (I think) but are very very good plants. Purity have beautiful snow white flowers and keep flowering from July to end October. They easily grow in one season from seeds in trays in late April/May. Christopher Lloyd recommended Cosmos purity to be grown with (have forgotten name here :-) ehh Mexican sunflower thing .... Compositae with bright orange flowers; grows to 4-5 feet/1.5 metres high and also a half hardy annual; sow in seed trays at same time as Cosmos. We did them together one year and it was stunning. The following year it was Arctic and then very windy for may and june and they never got going and I never did it since. Des Foxgloves - there are nice varieties about nowadays - I know they are biennials, but they seed about so well:~) Lavatera HTH Jenny *************************** I've lately fallen in love with "Cleome" but they don't unfortunately have any but they fill gaps splendidly are tall and look much more exotic than I expected from the picture on the packet. They have a prescence en masse from quite a distance which pleased me greatly! **************************** |
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"JennyC" wrote in message ... "Charlie Pridham" wrote in message ... Looking for suggestions and its years since growing any hardy annuals. Have been remodelling part of the garden and it will be a couple of years until the permanent planting is looking good so need to fill some big gaps. I want to sow in situ It must be medium to big in size. Not too prone to slug attack as the new area has masses of vegetable matter in the soil and is bound to be very sluggy. Not bothered about colour. Any suggestions? -- Charlie, gardening in Cornwall. http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk Holders of National Plant Collections of Clematis viticella (cvs) and Lapageria rosea Sun or shade Charlie ? Great swaths of night scented stocks would smell amazing Phlox Sweet peas - would could grow them up something to fill tall gaps Cosmos Foxgloves - there are nice varieties about nowadays - I know they are biennials, but they seed about so well:~) Lavatera HTH Jenny Mostly sunny. I shall probably weed out some foxgloves from the gravel paths to use in some spaces and I have had great success with Lavatera in the past so will probably try those again. Cosmos, is it a hardy annual? I will be sowing in March at latest, outside in the ground. (No space in greenhouses at that time of year!) -- Charlie, gardening in Cornwall. http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk Holders of National Plant Collections of Clematis viticella (cvs) and Lapageria rosea |
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Charlie Pridham writes
Mostly sunny. I shall probably weed out some foxgloves from the gravel paths to use in some spaces and I have had great success with Lavatera in the past so will probably try those again. Not as big as Lavatera, but related, and not particularly attractive to slugs is Musk Mallow -pretty serrated foliage and white or link flowers all through the summer. Aquilegia also seem slug hardy -- Kay |
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K wrote: Not as big as Lavatera, but related, and not particularly attractive to slugs is Musk Mallow -pretty serrated foliage and white or link flowers all through the summer. I've grown a lovely white/pale pink this year next to some fennel and the contrast was so appetising kept making me hungry ) Aquilegia also seem slug hardy Got carried away and sow far too much hellychrysums. Totally slug hardy and will last for years, indoors of course. Friends got bored with my offers of posies ... This year I'll do some gypsofphila in all the gaps. |
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"Charlie Pridham" wrote in a message: Looking for suggestions and its years since growing any hardy annuals. Have been remodelling part of the garden and it will be a couple of years until the permanent planting is looking good so need to fill some big gaps. I want to sow in situ It must be medium to big in size. Not too prone to slug attack as the new area has masses of vegetable matter in the soil and is bound to be very sluggy. Not bothered about colour. Any suggestions? ----- After a few failures put down to this summer's heat, I too had a few gaps to fill in my borders. Undoubtedly the most successful fillers were Mr. Fothergill's Cosmos mixtures. Although they didn't come into their own until August, they proved to be quite magnificent. As an added bonus, the slugs and snails left them alone too. MikeCT |
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"MikeCT" wrote in message ... ----- After a few failures put down to this summer's heat, I too had a few gaps to fill in my borders. Undoubtedly the most successful fillers were Mr. Fothergill's Cosmos mixtures. Although they didn't come into their own until August, they proved to be quite magnificent. As an added bonus, the slugs and snails left them alone too. MikeCT I will look them up, my mum always does them and they look fantastic in late September early October. I normally avoid anything that involves work during the season but this coming year I don't think I can avoid it! (I hate gaps more!!) and if the slugs give them a chance so much the better. -- Charlie, gardening in Cornwall. http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk Holders of National Plant Collections of Clematis viticella (cvs) and Lapageria rosea |
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Charlie Pridham wrote: "MikeCT" wrote in message ... ----- After a few failures put down to this summer's heat, I too had a few gaps to fill in my borders. Undoubtedly the most successful fillers were Mr. Fothergill's Cosmos mixtures. Although they didn't come into their own until August, they proved to be quite magnificent. As an added bonus, the slugs and snails left them alone too. MikeCT I will look them up, my mum always does them and they look fantastic in late September early October. I normally avoid anything that involves work during the season but this coming year I don't think I can avoid it! (I hate gaps more!!) and if the slugs give them a chance so much the better. -- Charlie, gardening in Cornwall. I was talking to an urgler recently about Chocolate Cosmos, which I now treat as a weed. It was beautiful in the one bed in which it was planted until it seeded itself everywhere, including the vegetable and fruit gardens and cracks in the paving stones It proves what one urgler wrote about weeds many years ago; that weeds are merely unwanted plants. If you can keep it under control Charlie, it is a delightful addition in a border. |
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"Charlie Pridham" wrote in message ... "MikeCT" wrote in message ... ----- After a few failures put down to this summer's heat, I too had a few gaps to fill in my borders. Undoubtedly the most successful fillers were Mr. Fothergill's Cosmos mixtures. Although they didn't come into their own until August, they proved to be quite magnificent. As an added bonus, the slugs and snails left them alone too. MikeCT I will look them up, my mum always does them and they look fantastic in late September early October. I normally avoid anything that involves work during the season but this coming year I don't think I can avoid it! (I hate gaps more!!) and if the slugs give them a chance so much the better. -- Charlie, gardening in Cornwall. http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk Holders of National Plant Collections of Clematis viticella (cvs) and Lapageria rosea Hello Charlie-I don't knowingly do annuals so I had a bit of a think about the stuff that self seeds here each season. Myosotis (I forget it's common name) is allowed to grow where it wants and gives a good loose ground cover till mid season by which time other things are taking over. Perhaps not big enough for you. Cerinthe is worth a go-it's still doing it's stuff now in December. Self seeds well and easy to remove when you get fed up with it. How about nasturtiums?-too garish for your sophisticated taste:-) If you avoid doing anything that involves work during the season does this mean you are now active or do you hibernate during winter. Sounds like a good deal to me:-)) |
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