We've done A although we should go back and update it with our progress - when we've sowed, how they growed
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Now its time to compare notes about flowers starting with B that we grow or would like to grow (with reasons) .![[Image: wink.png]](https://gardenandgossip.org/images/smilies/wink.png)
There are surprisingly few flowers beginning with B (unlike C!)
Next year, I must grow Bergamot aka Bee Balm..............although having looked it up it should be Monarda didyma.
Its my only "must grow B" although I may have a crack at Brachycombe/Swan River Daisy
There's one I would stop growing, if I could - buttercup (creeping type).
But there are a few to choose from:
bluebell
blackeyed Susan
bellflower
begonia
bleeding heart
ball dahlias
busy Lizzie
borage
and an old favourite, bindweed.
I’d like to grow black eyed Susan. Mostly because my grandad named one of my chicken after it. Also I think it’s bee friendly.
I always try to grow busy lizzies and begonias for bedding, with varying degrees of success. Must try harder. Bluebells?? You've gotta be joking, I dig 'em up and bin them.
(24-10-2020, 10:05 AM)JJB Wrote: [ -> ]I always try to grow busy lizzies and begonias for bedding, with varying degrees of success. Must try harder. Bluebells?? You've gotta be joking, I dig 'em up and bin them.
Don’t bin them!!!! Offer them on here as a swap or something. someone might like them. You can get them to send self addressed envelope so you’re not out of pocket. Just a thought
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(24-10-2020, 10:05 AM)JJB Wrote: [ -> ]I always try to grow busy lizzies and begonias for bedding, with varying degrees of success. Must try harder.
I pick up a tray of cheapo busy lizzies/begonias for a couple of hanging baskets - their tiny seeds are way too fiddly for me.
The tuberous Begonias are well worth growing though - come back year after year here with no overwintering needed. There's one growing on the edge of a patch of brambles - I've no idea how it got there as its the sort of daft place that even I wouldn't have chosen.
Plenty of bluebells here too but not all are English ones - there are some of those Spanish invaders amongst them - that I try to pull up when I spot them but they still seem to appear the next year.
(24-10-2020, 12:29 PM)Veggie Wrote: [ -> ] (24-10-2020, 10:05 AM)JJB Wrote: [ -> ]I always try to grow busy lizzies and begonias for bedding, with varying degrees of success. Must try harder.
I pick up a tray of cheapo busy lizzies/begonias for a couple of hanging baskets - their tiny seeds are way too fiddly for me.
The tuberous Begonias are well worth growing though - come back year after year here with no overwintering needed. There's one growing on the edge of a patch of brambles - I've no idea how it got there as its the sort of daft place that even I wouldn't have chosen.
Plenty of bluebells here too but not all are English ones - there are some of those Spanish invaders amongst them - that I try to pull up when I spot them but they still seem to appear the next year.
All mine are Spanish invaders (auto correct made that to 'spanish in waders' conjured up an image - wellies and frilly skirts with castanets
) I doubt if anyone would want some but you only have to ask. In the spring they take over.
(24-10-2020, 12:09 PM)Small chilli Wrote: [ -> ] (24-10-2020, 10:05 AM)JJB Wrote: [ -> ]I always try to grow busy lizzies and begonias for bedding, with varying degrees of success. Must try harder. Bluebells?? You've gotta be joking, I dig 'em up and bin them.
Don’t bin them!!!! Offer them on here as a swap or something. someone might like them. You can get them to send self addressed envelope so you’re not out of pocket. Just a thought .
If you want any just say. They're the Spanish type which are thugs!
(24-10-2020, 12:29 PM)Veggie Wrote: [ -> ] (24-10-2020, 10:05 AM)JJB Wrote: [ -> ]I always try to grow busy lizzies and begonias for bedding, with varying degrees of success. Must try harder.
I pick up a tray of cheapo busy lizzies/begonias for a couple of hanging baskets - their tiny seeds are way too fiddly for me.
The tuberous Begonias are well worth growing though - come back year after year here with no overwintering needed. There's one growing on the edge of a patch of brambles - I've no idea how it got there as its the sort of daft place that even I wouldn't have chosen.
Plenty of bluebells here too but not all are English ones - there are some of those Spanish invaders amongst them - that I try to pull up when I spot them but they still seem to appear the next year.
V do you mean tuberous (corms) that usually go in hanging baskets and pots or fibrous for bedding? One year I dug up the fibrous ones and put them in the compost, next spring dug the compost and found some very nice roots all sprouting, a lovely surprise. I've brought a window box of fibrous ones into the porch to see if they will last the winter. P talks to them
.... looking for intelligent conversation again.