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pampas grass and red hot pokers
I am about to display my inate bad taste as I admit to liking these plants.
If anyone in the north cambs/south lincs area has some they want rid of I would be happy to take them :0) |
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In message , ex WGS Hamm
writes I am about to display my inate bad taste as I admit to liking these plants. If anyone in the north cambs/south lincs area has some they want rid of I would be happy to take them :0) I don't think it is bad taste at all. We all have our likes and dislikes and are all entitled to our own views. We have a smaller version of pampas grass in our tiny (80ft by 12ft) suburban garden (we like it and so do our friends and neighbours - no-one else's views matter a bit) but I don't think that is what you would like. Unfortunately, I can't help you but I am sure someone else can. Go for it -- June Hughes |
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On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 23:06:56 GMT, "ex WGS Hamm"
wrote: I am about to display my inate bad taste as I admit to liking these plants. If anyone in the north cambs/south lincs area has some they want rid of I would be happy to take them :0) Both are plentiful, and appreciated, in my garden! -- Chris E-mail: christopher[dot]hogg[at]virgin[dot]net |
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Chris Hogg wrote: On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 23:06:56 GMT, "ex WGS Hamm" wrote: I am about to display my inate bad taste as I admit to liking these plants. If anyone in the north cambs/south lincs area has some they want rid of I would be happy to take them :0) Both are plentiful, and appreciated, in my garden! Not in mine - I have no room for the former, and I find most of the latter (as grown in the UK) rather wimpish. I am very fond of them, but feel that they should be chest high and blazing colours. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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Chris Hogg wrote: Not in mine - I have no room for the former, and I find most of the latter (as grown in the UK) rather wimpish. I am very fond of them, but feel that they should be chest high and blazing colours. I grow mostly species Kniphofias. K. linearifolia is at least chest high, as is the hybrid Prince Igor. Thanks for that - I must look out for them. Nick. |
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Chris Hogg wrote: Sorry, I overlooked your requirement for them also to be in blazing colours. K. linearifolia is variously orange, old-gold and greenish orange, interesting but not blazing. Prince Igor is a more traditional colour, orange-red at the top of the spike fading to yellow. An established plant will put up flowers to over six feet (a 'must have' when I saw it in a nearby garden!). Another good one is K. rooperi, again with traditional colouring but flowers of a more rounded shape. Height when established, at least 5 ft. (the kniphofias that form an avenue around the east side of St. Michael's Mount in Cornwall, and that flower so spectacularly in September, are these). K. praecox is a good bright red and fairly tall, but as mine will only flower for the first time next year, I can't be definite about it. I've not grown K. northiae, but it has a reputation for having massive flower heads, although I don't think it's especially tall or brightly coloured. It likes a damp spot. I don't know what the ones I remember were - they weren't huge, but were not the miserable little knee-height things - but they definitely went from a bright orange-red to yellow. Of course, the sunlight may have had something to do with it. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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