Some new photos from my garden over on alt.binaries.pictures.gardens. Work on the
big Pinus radiata + Meconopsis in the Camellia Walk. Posted today and yesterday.
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Those Meconopsis make me green with envy, have yet to get any to grow.

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On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 22:56:25 +0000, Rod
wrote:

~Some new photos from my garden over on alt.binaries.pictures.gardens. Work on the
~big Pinus radiata + Meconopsis in the Camellia Walk. Posted today and yesterday.

Oooh these make me look forward to having some too!
My little forest of seedlings from your seed is still happily growing
under the plastic seed tray cover by the back door, and so far none
have done a vanishing act. How long do they take to get to flowering
size please, assuming the fictional ideal conditions?!

I'm hoping to have pots of them all over the garden, joining my
rhodies, camellias, blueberries and pieris. Why is it that my
favourite plants are all acid-lovers and I live on a chalk ridge?
*sigh*


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jane

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone,
you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
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jane wrote:


Oooh these make me look forward to having some too!
My little forest of seedlings from your seed is still happily growing
under the plastic seed tray cover by the back door, and so far none
have done a vanishing act. How long do they take to get to flowering
size please, assuming the fictional ideal conditions?!

I'm hoping to have pots of them all over the garden, joining my
rhodies, camellias, blueberries and pieris. Why is it that my
favourite plants are all acid-lovers and I live on a chalk ridge?
*sigh*


We're on boulder clay over limestone here but the woodland and Rhodies etc create a
shallow acid layer sufficient to sustain themselves OK. Your Meconopsis will be
big enough to plant to their flowering positions by mid-summer and should flower
well for you the following summer. A few of the M. betonicifolia might flower this
coming summer but those plants may well die next winter but don't let that bother
you - you'll have plenty left.
I often have a craving to grow sun-lovers on a chalky soil - part of the nature of
gardeners and gardening.

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Rod
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