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Flowers beginning with B - Veggie - 23-10-2020
We've done A although we should go back and update it with our progress - when we've sowed, how they growed
.Now its time to compare notes about flowers starting with B that we grow or would like to grow (with reasons) .
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RE: Flowers beginning with B - Veggie - 23-10-2020
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
RE: Flowers beginning with B - Mark_Riga - 23-10-2020
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.
RE: Flowers beginning with B - Small chilli - 23-10-2020
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.
RE: Flowers beginning with B - JJB - 24-10-2020
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.
RE: Flowers beginning with B - Small chilli - 24-10-2020
(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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RE: Flowers beginning with B - Veggie - 24-10-2020
(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.
RE: Flowers beginning with B - JJB - 24-10-2020
(24-10-2020, 12:29 PM)Veggie Wrote:All mine are Spanish invaders (auto correct made that to 'spanish in waders' conjured up an image - wellies and frilly skirts with castanets(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.
) I doubt if anyone would want some but you only have to ask. In the spring they take over.
RE: Flowers beginning with B - JJB - 24-10-2020
(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!
RE: Flowers beginning with B - JJB - 24-10-2020
(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.