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Hullo. I cannot find what this plant is nor can I remember me planting
it there - mind gone blank. I have another one in my front garden bang on the middle of my precious border. I don't mind it, slugs don't seem to like it either. But at the back in my raised bed it's HUGE. Ta for any info. http://cjoint.com/?ewry0A40XY |
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"La Puce" wrote: Hullo. I cannot find what this plant is nor can I remember me planting it there - mind gone blank. I have another one in my front garden bang on the middle of my precious border. I don't mind it, slugs don't seem to like it either. But at the back in my raised bed it's HUGE. Ta for any info. --- Lunaria (Honesty). I have it growing in my garden. MikeCT |
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"La Puce" wrote in message ps.com... Hullo. I cannot find what this plant is nor can I remember me planting it there - mind gone blank. I have another one in my front garden bang on the middle of my precious border. I don't mind it, slugs don't seem to like it either. But at the back in my raised bed it's HUGE. Ta for any info. http://cjoint.com/?ewry0A40XY :-)) Let it go to seed and dry it :-)) Wonderful for flower arrangements :-)) Mike -- .................................................. .............. The Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association. 'THE' Association if you served in the Electrical Branch of the Royal Navy www.rneba.org.uk |
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On 22 Apr, 16:40, "MikeCT" wrote:
Lunaria (Honesty). I have it growing in my garden. Off course!!! Thank you Mike and Mike! I'm an idiot ... honestly. These are Rusty's seeds would you beleive - I must have just scattered them along with others 'gift' and totally forgotten. At the lotty at the back I've got a lot too - why didn't I thought of it? Beats me but so glad you folks are here. I think I should write down what I osw because I forget most of the time ... Thanks again. |
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"La Puce" wrote in message ups.com... On 22 Apr, 16:40, "MikeCT" wrote: Lunaria (Honesty). I have it growing in my garden. Off course!!! Thank you Mike and Mike! I'm an idiot ... honestly. These are Rusty's seeds would you beleive - I must have just scattered them along with others 'gift' and totally forgotten. At the lotty at the back I've got a lot too - why didn't I thought of it? Beats me but so glad you folks are here. I think I should write down what I osw because I forget most of the time ... Thanks again. Aren't you just glad that you haven't 'pretended' to kill file me like one poor sad old woman on this site? :-)) Mike -- .................................................. .............. The Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association. 'THE' Association if you served in the Electrical Branch of the Royal Navy www.rneba.org.uk |
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On 22 Apr, 17:26, Anne Jackson wrote:
Lunaria annua Also known as Honesty, or Silver Pennies in our garden. Oy! Keep up at the back! But thank you Anne :o)) How is it up there north north? Any rain?! Got lots today - brilliant! Hope it last all week but then abruptly stop next Saturday.... |
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On 22 Apr, 18:58, Anne Jackson wrote:
'Dreich' with 'smirry' rain. Not really enough to make a lot of difference...but I visited the Scottish Rock Garden Society show yesterday, joined the Society and bought a *whole lot* of plants... three dozen or more, and I won't tell Bill how much I paid for them! He'd have a fit! G Arghhh... the story of my life ;o) I always say: 'it was a bargain I tell you, a bargain!!'. It always work. In any case he spends on the structures and I spend on the research, plants, installation and fun (not to forget hard labour). I recently spent a bit - he built a new bike shed and I did the roof garden. Almost a ton of soil up there, membrane, gravel etc. Hard work to bring the lot up there ... here, take a look (I'm really really pleased). http://cjoint.com/?ewwy1yhd8R |
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On 22 Apr, 22:46, Anne Jackson wrote:
A .pdf file? I thought it was never going to open! Good things comes to those who waits ... ;o) Very impressive, though...what have you planted up there? Won't it dry out terribly in the heat of the summer? Green roof retain around 80% of rain fall - hence the fantastic range of plants we can grow up there. Although it's due south, the sun gets on it at around 11am and goes at around 2pm, so it's sheltered. The wind is minimised by the triangle structure, a remnent to the old garage there and with a large privet, a red cedar and lots of ivy around it, the roof won't dry out so much. I need a couple of years to really understand how it will settle really. Also mine is 'a deep one', 15cm deep, compared to the usual sedum blankets or just grass. We went for wild flowers too, knautia, camomile, a variety of herbs, scabious, marjoran, thyme ... woad, marguerites, ragged robins ... and there's lots of room left. I fancy putting some tomatoes too though there's not a lot of sun there. It's another place to experiment - I don't have much room as you can see!! For those living around Yorkshire there's funding available to built green roofs - closing date 31st May. http://www.thegreenroofcentre.co.uk/design10.4.html -- 'She' :o) 'Her' |
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In article . com,
La Puce wrote: On 22 Apr, 16:40, "MikeCT" wrote: Lunaria (Honesty). I have it growing in my garden. Off course!!! Thank you Mike and Mike! I'm an idiot ... honestly. These are Rusty's seeds would you beleive - I must have just scattered them along with others 'gift' and totally forgotten. At the lotty at the back I've got a lot too - why didn't I thought of it? Beats me but so glad you folks are here. I think I should write down what I osw because I forget most of the time ... Thanks again. I've got loads of Honesty this year, both the purple form and the white form. And just a few of the variegated leafed variety. I was very skeptical that this would be variegated from seed - but it is. Mine came from Bolton Percy churchyard - but I think Chiltern sells it. |
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On 23 Apr, 14:42, John McMillan
wrote: I've got loads of Honesty this year, both the purple form and the white form. And just a few of the variegated leafed variety. I was very skeptical that this would be variegated from seed - but it is. Mine came from Bolton Percy churchyard - but I think Chiltern sells it. White?! I want !!! Can you save me some seeds? |
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La Puce wrote: On 23 Apr, 14:42, John McMillan wrote: I've got loads of Honesty this year, both the purple form and the white form. And just a few of the variegated leafed variety. I was very skeptical that this would be variegated from seed - but it is. Mine came from Bolton Percy churchyard - but I think Chiltern sells it. White?! I want !!! Can you save me some seeds? In theory. Of course, by the time its set seed you can't see what colour the flowers were. And of course the bees cross pollinate it so some will revert to purple, and some of the variegated will revert to white. And then its a biennial so you don't get to find out until this time in 2009. Chiltern have Lunaria Annua which I suppose is the purple form, Lunaria Annua var Alba which is the white form and Lunaria Annua var Variegata which is the variegated white form. They also have Lunaria Rediviva which is claimed to be a perennial version - anyone have any success with that? Perhaps I should mark my plants somehow (?) so that I know which were which when I come to harvest the seed. |
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On 24 Apr, 14:13, John McMillan
wrote: In theory. Of course, by the time its set seed you can't see what colour the flowers were. And of course the bees cross pollinate it so some will revert to purple, and some of the variegated will revert to white. And then its a biennial so you don't get to find out until this time in 2009. I'll be patient ... This is why I didn't see Rusty's plants last year and therefore wondered why this plant had grown there. I had forgotten. Chiltern have Lunaria Annua which I suppose is the purple form, Lunaria Annua var Alba which is the white form and Lunaria Annua var Variegata which is the variegated white form. They also have Lunaria Rediviva which is claimed to be a perennial version - anyone have any success with that? Perhaps I should mark my plants somehow (?) so that I know which were which when I come to harvest the seed. Please, try ... It's so much nicer to get free seeds from someone. It's like a gift. I've made a note in someone else's garden, on our way to school, where they have lots of white aquilegias. For three years I kept thinking that I must pick some seeds and kept forgetting where the white ones where. This year my son's promised to take a picture, tee hee, but I will have to go and knock on the door. Thankfully the residents will get involved in a Neighbour's Day I'm organising on the close behind that house and it will make that task much more easy :o) (Neighbour's day is an international event ran by councils for street party and events to celebrate European Neighbours. This year I'm running 2, linked with Britain in Bloom. Closing dates is 11th May - if you are interested www.european-neighbours-day.com. There's 200 pounds available per projects). |
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