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Liza
gardening consultant
Waterloo, Belgium
Spring time in ...colourful action!!24 Mar '07 9:19 pm
Dear sweet Bambi!, how your Hyakinths are lovely and scented ( I smelled them through you!..) I mostly loved the blue ones! Tell me: do you leave them to overwinter where they are? And , if you do, do you find that year after year they grow in the same strong display? If your answer is positive, I will definitely plant some in my garden in Autumn, cause I love them so, but I have this idea that they are not completely frost hardy...
Your Primulas are lovely, and I think, that your baby with no-name is a Campanoula, a short or rockery one. Have more happy gardening! Here the weather is cold and dump, still no sun as they had told us for today...
Gordon! I loved your Spring photos, too! I adored your Cyclamens! And what a special colour your Hellebores have! |
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Anna
Gone to seed
Hamilton, New Zealand
25 Mar '07 1:47 pm
I enjoyed everyones piccies. 
| Quote: | | Is there a new gardening programme on NZ Telly ???? It has been like a desert without one . |
I hadn't noticed one myself but I'd love to see almost anything.
Over the summer, buried at about 7 or 7.30am they had an English gardening programme with a young garden designer. I only got to see a few of the eps but enjoyed what I saw.
And then there was the Aussie 'House and Garden' thingy at 5pm when any good 'housewife'  is cooking the evening meal. (Although the gardening segment was small and fairly useless, I thought)
Goodness only knows what the programmers are thinking. I seriously miss Maggie's Garden Show. That awful NZ 'House and Garden' show last year was, when I saw it on the few occasions it didn't clash with anything else, ghastly too.
It's all about minimalism and structures, not lush plantings. All grasses and little in the way of roses or cottagey/englishy stuff.
Blah! |
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Bambi
Slowly Learning Gardener
Kent, England
27 Mar '07 1:31 am
Thanks to everyone for your kind comments.
Gordon, I love the new bed in your front garden - can't wait to see it established and in full bloom with whatever you plant there. Your hellebore and cyclamen look gorgeous too.
Lovely Liza, unfortunately due to a horrible cold, I can't smell the hyacinths today  but they're still beautiful to my eye. I actually only planted the bulbs last autumn, but I bought them from a rather posh garden centre nearby so I'm hoping they'll be ok (it is rather expensive so I try not to go there too often, despite having to drive past it almost every day, but it is probably the best centre around, not just for its range and quality of plants, but for its lovely, peaceful atmosphere too). The bulbs are supposed to be able to withstand the winter and they have certainly shown that this time around, hopefully they'll repeat this show next spring, along with the others I'm planning on getting this year to boost the impact.
I drove up to Hertfordshire with one of my brothers on Saturday to visit my sister, her husband and their two children in their lovely new home which they moved into a couple of weeks ago. In their new garden, there are so many hyacinths, I was extremely jealous! I'm pretty sure they've been there for a while so they're probably ok for the winter too. My sister may not keep all of them though, as she grows so many vegetables, some of the flower beds are going to have to go, so she's promised both my Mum and I that we can have some bulbs when she digs them up.
On the subject of gardening programs, there are simply not enough good ones on tv here at the moment. We have one channel dedicated to gardening and mostly it shows garden makeover shows, which are ok in themselves but, when you've watched ten million of them, the next six million are all the same! They do have a few Alan Titchmarsh programs on which I love, but there's never enough; and they show repeats of old Gardeners' World episodes too but again, the same episodes are sometimes repeated the next day which is a bit frustrating. I'd love to see more quality programming on tv when it comes to this genre, as I think the makeover shows are so tired, they all follow the same formula and you never actually get any practical gardening knowledge from them. |
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gordonf
Happy Collector
Vancouver Island, Canada
Hyacinths27 Mar '07 4:07 pm
Hi, Bambi!
I think my climate is a bit harsher than yours, and hyacinths return year after year here if they like the spot in which you put them; otherwise they slowly fade away after 3 or 4 years - perhaps they need to be lifted and stored dry for the summer so they don't get watered all the time when they are dormant.
I got about two thirds of my new flower bed planted today as it was another beautiful, spring-like day. I'm feeling quite puffed up at the results, but I won't take another picture for at least a week so that the new occupants get a chance to settle in a bit. I still need to plant Alchemillis and about a dozen peppermint-scented geraniums that I grew this winter from cuttings; also some pineapple mint that I rescued from a very shady spot where it was slowly dying and a "Frosty Morn" sedum that I have been raising in a pot for 3 years until it was large enough to plant out. I think I'll plant the geraniums right beside the roadway so that passers-by can touch their velvety leaves and smell the fragrance as they go. The geraniums will die over winter, but I'll keep a couple inside and replace them with more Alchemilla next year.
I can hardly wait for the plants to start blooming, but that will be at least a couple of months from now, so I need to be patient!
Cheers!
gordonf |
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Anna
Gone to seed
Hamilton, New Zealand
2 Apr '07 7:26 pm
Speaking of gardening programmes... I haven't googled to see what's out there but I'd hope there would be some on DVD.
One of these days I'll do just that and see what's available. |
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