Does anyone know anything about gardening?

Finally an excuse to get a CX bike!

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Aubretia I think.

My Iris' are out. About 5ft tall.

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Edited my post with a better pic.

Not sure if it is, but what I was thinking of for a wall was campanula.

Wow!

Mine are bossing it this year, but no where near that.

Tbh I was pretty disappointed when I first planted them and had thought about removing them. But a few years on and they doing really well.

My homebase Allium bulbs have just about fully emerged. Such pretty things and my first try at growing them. All 7 appear to be blooming too.

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Felt very privileged to get some free tickets through work to Chelsea on Wednesday. So. Many. People.

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Haha, love the massive carnivorous things!

Hampton Court flower show is also good (and quite similar)

I've been to both in the past and Hampton Court was much better. You could actually see things without any form of frottage.

Planted a passion flower. Did I make a balls of it?

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Looks like enough for it to get going. I'd be tempted to put some horizontal wires for it to cling to but see how it goes. They can get pretty big!

Agree with wires as per @rhowe. They can pretty much indestructible and grow anywhere producing suckers which pop up where they like. I had one, I've got about six now. As with any climber, don't let it get to the house as it will be creeping in where you don't want it. My flower at the previous south facing garden fruited well. My garden now is more south-west and I don't get any fruit.

We had a fox chew through our established passion flower at the base last year. It's back and has grown the full length of our fence this year. They are tough buggers.

They aren't indestructible - I've killed one! It was massive, we had to cut it back loads as it was bringing other plants down, it didn't come back after that winter.

I keep meaning to replace it but need to source one to plant where it was....

Can anyone identify this? Seen in a border at Packwood House (NT) although my recollection is more blue than the photo. Predictably MrsE would like one...

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Wax flowers, cerinthes.

Thanks!
Various on-line experts describe the preferred soil as 'Chalky, Loamy, Sandy' etc. Ours is more like puddling clay, so I don't anticipate much success unless it will tolerate life in a pot.

They self seed like mad on very well drained soil:

Got a quite a bit of box hedging around the area..most have know been obliterated by the Asian caterpillar.
I'm finally giving up and digging them out. But need an alternative. Anyone got any ideas? Definately not keen of pesticides or chemicals.
Sad day...they did look nice when freshly trimmed. Even experts are saying this could be the end of box hedging for now.

If you have a garden that is not also used by young children; English Yew!
Grows strongly when young, can be clipped and kept as an evergreen hedge.
(All parts/sap are toxic.
If brave you can eat the sticky pink flesh of the fruit,
but,
do not ingest the seed).

Beardshaw's just won gold at Chelsea and he's got tons of yew:

I need some thing that grows very small maximum height 7-8 inches.
Is there a yew hedge that suitable?
I've got a front wall that acts a raise bed..currently looking apocalyptic.

Purple sage?

This spring, I give you the gift of 100 African Crackerjack Mixed Marigolds, 200 French Orangeboy Marigolds& 100 Swiss Giant Mixed Pansies! A great strike rate this year.
Now individually potted up. Still the Lobelia to be individually potted up. Pretty much all of the Petunia seedlings were mown down in one evening by a rogue slug. All from less than £2.50 worth of seeds from Wilko.

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