I am a gardener and garden designer working in Central England since 2008. I specialise in the sympathetic renovation and restoration of gardens. Follow me as I chart progress in various gardens.
One of my hobbies includes Hermès silks, so expect my blog to be interspersed with the odd scarf or three. For me wearing a piece of silk art is the perfect antidote to a day's hard graft.
What a gem is this one ! Our dahlias continue to bloom , I don't think there's another cutting plant so generous . Don't know the names, both tall border dahlias .I don't like those stumpy little chaps , do you ?
Dear Estrella, we are singing from the same sheet here. The short stumpy ones you are referring to are bedding dahlias, often grown from a cutting. I adore the tall varieties but really anything more than 4ft will be considered if it fits a particular planting scheme.
Dahlias do give a lot for a long time but what about sweet peas? This year I soweed them late (spring rather than autumn) and when I ripped them out at the rectory last week they were still flowering. I really did not want to take them out but needed the space for onions, nuff said. x
What a gem is this one ! Our dahlias continue to bloom , I don't think there's another cutting plant so generous .
ReplyDeleteDon't know the names, both tall border dahlias .I don't like those stumpy little chaps , do you ?
Dear Estrella, we are singing from the same sheet here. The short stumpy ones you are referring to are bedding dahlias, often grown from a cutting. I adore the tall varieties but really anything more than 4ft will be considered if it fits a particular planting scheme.
ReplyDeleteDahlias do give a lot for a long time but what about sweet peas? This year I soweed them late (spring rather than autumn) and when I ripped them out at the rectory last week they were still flowering. I really did not want to take them out but needed the space for onions, nuff said. x