What plants do urglers recommend as flowering for the longest time.
So many things I like flower for a week or two and then are over. In
my garden iris sibirica and Patty's Plum are offenders.

On 04/01/2015 16:18, Martin wrote:
On Sun, 04 Jan 2015 16:14:24 +0000, Pam Moore wrote:

What plants do urglers recommend as flowering for the longest time.
So many things I like flower for a week or two and then are over. In
my garden iris sibirica and Patty's Plum are offenders.

Roses encouraged by dead heading.


+ 1, then add Erysimum 'Bowles Mauve'.
I bought this Erysimum for a 90+ friend and neighbour. He'd neither
heard of it nor seen it before; now he can't stop telling me how good it
is. Bees and buttlerflies love it. After a few years (3-4), it gets a
bit straggly and woody, but it's easy to take cuttings and start it off
again. However, young plants are fairly cheap if propagating isn't your
thing.

Another favourite of mine is Potentilla fruticosa, also loved by bees.
The soft yellow-flowered type seems to be the most floriferous in my
experience and it goes on for months. I had a 25ft hedge of it years
ago and it was gorgeous - even the neighbours loved it! Indeed, one
gent copied it.

I also find hardy Fuchsias have a longish flowering season, but I know
they don't appeal to everyone.

On a smaller scale, Erigeron karvinskianus flowers most of the year and
is a delicate froth of white/pink/carmine flowers.

A useful tip which I use a lot for favourite plants with a shorter
flowering season is to place them around the garden so that each
receives sunshine at a different time of day. Sometimes it's possible
to extend the season by a month or perhaps more.
--
Spider.
On high ground in SE London
gardening on heavy clay

On a smaller scale, Erigeron karvinskianus flowers most of the year and
is a delicate froth of white/pink/carmine flowers.


I've thrown the seeds everywhere this year. Hope I don't regret it :-)

On 04/01/2015 18:55, stuart noble wrote:

On a smaller scale, Erigeron karvinskianus flowers most of the year and
is a delicate froth of white/pink/carmine flowers.


I've thrown the seeds everywhere this year. Hope I don't regret it :-)



You won't:~). I hope they take for you. They prefer to be somewhere
between a rock and hard place, but do pop up in more hospitable places.
I've never needed to pull one up and throw it away; any spare plants
go to friends and neighbours who are only too keen to have them.
--
Spider.
On high ground in SE London
gardening on heavy clay

On Sun, 04 Jan 2015 22:00:53 +0000, Spider wrote:

On 04/01/2015 18:55, stuart noble wrote:

On a smaller scale, Erigeron karvinskianus flowers most of the year
and is a delicate froth of white/pink/carmine flowers.


I've thrown the seeds everywhere this year. Hope I don't regret it :-)



You won't:~). I hope they take for you. They prefer to be somewhere
between a rock and hard place, but do pop up in more hospitable places.
I've never needed to pull one up and throw it away; any spare plants
go to friends and neighbours who are only too keen to have them.


+1. Very hard to think of a more useful garden plant...


--
Gardening in Lower Normandy

"Spider" wrote

, Martin wrote:
Pam Moore wrote:

What plants do urglers recommend as flowering for the longest time.
So many things I like flower for a week or two and then are over. In
my garden iris sibirica and Patty's Plum are offenders.

Roses encouraged by dead heading.


+ 1, then add Erysimum 'Bowles Mauve'.
I bought this Erysimum for a 90+ friend and neighbour. He'd neither heard
of it nor seen it before; now he can't stop telling me how good it is.
Bees and buttlerflies love it. After a few years (3-4), it gets a bit
straggly and woody, but it's easy to take cuttings and start it off again.
However, young plants are fairly cheap if propagating isn't your thing.

Another favourite of mine is Potentilla fruticosa, also loved by bees. The
soft yellow-flowered type seems to be the most floriferous in my experience
and it goes on for months. I had a 25ft hedge of it years ago and it was
gorgeous - even the neighbours loved it! Indeed, one gent copied it.

I also find hardy Fuchsias have a longish flowering season, but I know they
don't appeal to everyone.

On a smaller scale, Erigeron karvinskianus flowers most of the year and is
a delicate froth of white/pink/carmine flowers.

A useful tip which I use a lot for favourite plants with a shorter
flowering season is to place them around the garden so that each receives
sunshine at a different time of day. Sometimes it's possible to extend the
season by a month or perhaps more.

From my experience all the Erysimums, not just Bowles Mauve, are good value
plants that keep on flowering, just dead head them occasionally and take a
few cuttings for when they get woody or give up.
--
Regards. Bob Hobden.
Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK

In article ,
says...

What plants do urglers recommend as flowering for the longest time.
So many things I like flower for a week or two and then are over. In
my garden iris sibirica and Patty's Plum are offenders.

Ceanothus flowers about 10 months of the year here.
Hardy fuchsias like Mrs Popple flower for 6.
Of summer perennials, alstromeria flowers from June till late autumn.
Smaller and more subtle, westringia Blue Gem has flowered non stop
since I planted it last May

Janet.

On 05/01/2015 00:42, Janet wrote:
In article ,
says...

What plants do urglers recommend as flowering for the longest time.
So many things I like flower for a week or two and then are over. In
my garden iris sibirica and Patty's Plum are offenders.

Ceanothus flowers about 10 months of the year here.
Hardy fuchsias like Mrs Popple flower for 6.
Of summer perennials, alstromeria flowers from June till late autumn.
Smaller and more subtle, westringia Blue Gem has flowered non stop
since I planted it last May

Janet.

My favourite are penstemon, they come in a wide variety of colours, for
me in the lower lying area of North Staffordshire they flower all Summer
and Autumn, even some into the Winter.

On 04/01/2015 23:27, Bob Hobden wrote:
"Spider" wrote

, Martin wrote:
Pam Moore wrote:

What plants do urglers recommend as flowering for the longest time.
So many things I like flower for a week or two and then are over. In
my garden iris sibirica and Patty's Plum are offenders.

Roses encouraged by dead heading.


+ 1, then add Erysimum 'Bowles Mauve'.
I bought this Erysimum for a 90+ friend and neighbour. He'd neither
heard of it nor seen it before; now he can't stop telling me how good
it is. Bees and buttlerflies love it. After a few years (3-4), it gets
a bit straggly and woody, but it's easy to take cuttings and start it
off again. However, young plants are fairly cheap if propagating isn't
your thing.

Another favourite of mine is Potentilla fruticosa, also loved by bees.
The soft yellow-flowered type seems to be the most floriferous in my
experience and it goes on for months. I had a 25ft hedge of it years
ago and it was gorgeous - even the neighbours loved it! Indeed, one
gent copied it.

I also find hardy Fuchsias have a longish flowering season, but I know
they don't appeal to everyone.

On a smaller scale, Erigeron karvinskianus flowers most of the year
and is a delicate froth of white/pink/carmine flowers.

A useful tip which I use a lot for favourite plants with a shorter
flowering season is to place them around the garden so that each
receives sunshine at a different time of day. Sometimes it's possible
to extend the season by a month or perhaps more.

From my experience all the Erysimums, not just Bowles Mauve, are good
value plants that keep on flowering, just dead head them occasionally
and take a few cuttings for when they get woody or give up.



Yes, as you say, they're pretty good doers, but I find that E. 'Bowle's
Mauve' is the most attractive to bees and some butterflies, which is why
it's one of my favourites.
--
Spider.
On high ground in SE London
gardening on heavy clay

On 2015-01-04 18:55:46 +0000, stuart noble said:


On a smaller scale, Erigeron karvinskianus flowers most of the year and
is a delicate froth of white/pink/carmine flowers.


I've thrown the seeds everywhere this year. Hope I don't regret it :-)

Impossible! It's enchanting.
--

Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
www.helpforheroes.org.uk

On 2015-01-05 09:24:10 +0000, Broadback said:

On 05/01/2015 00:42, Janet wrote:
In article ,
says...

What plants do urglers recommend as flowering for the longest time.
So many things I like flower for a week or two and then are over. In
my garden iris sibirica and Patty's Plum are offenders.

Ceanothus flowers about 10 months of the year here.
Hardy fuchsias like Mrs Popple flower for 6.
Of summer perennials, alstromeria flowers from June till late autumn.
Smaller and more subtle, westringia Blue Gem has flowered non stop
since I planted it last May

Janet.

My favourite are penstemon, they come in a wide variety of colours, for
me in the lower lying area of North Staffordshire they flower all
Summer and Autumn, even some into the Winter.

Euryops go on and on for months, if you have the climate for them. Ours
have taken frost and recovered happily but they won't take a very hard
winter. I should think they flower for 8 months with short breaks in
between. Luma apiculata flowers on and off all year, too and is
evergreen. Akebia quinata alba goes on for several weeks and smells
wonderful, and with dead-heading, Dahlias last for month, right up to
first frosts. I love poppies and peonies but grow very few for the
reasons Pam gives. They're over in what seems like minutes.
--

Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
www.helpforheroes.org.uk