You can still get a lovely meadow of cornfield annuals with enriched soil, I have repeatedly. With some weeding required of other plants that creep in. I’ve seen it at Sissinghurst too.
It’s the perennials meadow that requires poor soil.
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You can still get a lovely meadow of cornfield annuals with enriched soil, I have repeatedly. With some weeding required of other plants that creep in. I’ve seen it at Sissinghurst too.
It’s the perennials meadow that requires poor soil.
The best pic I have.
We’re just in suburbia, not backing onto countryside or woodland, so there’s no special reason why we have them … but we do. Really pleased.
Jack Straw
I look nothing like him!
Wardy's twin
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That's a newt .... depending on it's size its either a juvenile or a female.....so when you put your pond in you will have a ready made population...
Looks like something [MENTION=409]Herr Tubthumper[/MENTION] would happily polish off on a taster menu in downtown Berlin
Wardy's twin
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this an adult female probably 3 inches long
these are two adult males....when they are land based their skin looks velvety and is dry unlike say a frog. They usually don't return to water after the breeding season unlike frogs who have a wet skin and need to keep it moist. After one very long hot spell many years ago it poured down and an old bowl i had out filled with water , i then noticed the contents.... first and last time i had ever seen anything like that but it was a long spell of dry weather..
Seared hand caught garden newt, samphire and pickled walnut.
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Stick to the topic or f**k off.
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The topic is gardner question time and these were found in the garden...
1066familyman
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Yes, that should be kept for the pet thread.
I had a pet Newt once.
I called him Tiny, because he was my newt.
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And that should be on the bloody Joke de Jour thread
There's no standards on NSC anymore
Green Cross Code Man
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Nice Echiums and is that Albizia?
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
Come on, where are those pictures you promised (about 2 or 3 years ago)? And surely you mean 'flora'?
Green Cross Code Man
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Coldeanseagull
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Oh yeah! Must get round to a photo shoot...although it's in transition again
Perennials are coming into flower. Bees into the Scabious today. Lots still to flower - Achillea Terracotta, Rudbeckia, Echinacea, Betony, Stachys.
Mini meadow taking shape, hidden are Yellow-rattle, Achillea and Lady’s Bedstraw.
Completed the final part of another border this week, delayed by 16 years!
Comprising Rosa Ispahan, Hydrangea Annabelle, Hawthorn Paul’s Scarlet, Allium summer beauty, Astrantia, Persicaria bistorta superba, both White and Red Campion and Geranium Pratense. I’ll add a few Allium Globemaster bulbs at a later date, they don’t mind the partial shade down that border.
Mini meadow taking shape, hidden are Yellow-rattle, Achillea and Lady’s Bedstraw.
Completed the final part of another border this week, delayed by 16 years!
Comprising Rosa Ispahan, Hydrangea Annabelle, Hawthorn Paul’s Scarlet, Allium summer beauty, Astrantia, Persicaria bistorta superba, both White and Red Campion and Geranium Pratense. I’ll add a few Allium Globemaster bulbs at a later date, they don’t mind the partial shade down that border.
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We have a centre piece Echium if you like in our veg garden at work. A magnet for Bees. Echiums seed everywhere and we just leave them to grow selectively. There's others dotted around, and if you look carefully you can see a bunch we've left to the right of this pic that will flower next year.
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
Your beds look amazing. Love it. The new planting will be so satisfying to watch whilst it grows and fills out. Why did that bed take 16 years? That is an exceedingly long time to either get around to it or to be planning!
Cheshire Cat
The most curious thing..
Is anyone else having an issue with cold dry winds, perpertual clouds and virtually no rain.
It keeps the weeds down, but none of my veg is thriving (or even starting in many cases).
I'm also told that getting F1 hybrid seed to germinate is increasingly difficult, which might explain my complete failure for any courgette seeds to germinate so far. I can't even get sunflower seeds to start and they should be a doddle.
Even when something does appear, the pigeons promptly scoff it, and don't get me started about blackbirds, cherries and blueberries.
It keeps the weeds down, but none of my veg is thriving (or even starting in many cases).
I'm also told that getting F1 hybrid seed to germinate is increasingly difficult, which might explain my complete failure for any courgette seeds to germinate so far. I can't even get sunflower seeds to start and they should be a doddle.
Even when something does appear, the pigeons promptly scoff it, and don't get me started about blackbirds, cherries and blueberries.
Jack Straw
I look nothing like him!
It is indeed. It was being thrown out from our nursery where I used to work, around ten years' ago, as it had been in a pot for several years and didn't grow. It was about five feet tall with no branches. I dug a huge hole, filled it with nuclear compost made by a mad gardener, planted it, and it's gone nuts!
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