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June 17, 2010 | Plantaholic Post Sputnik plant has come to live with us. Bought from a charming Frenchman who nurtures bonsai trees. Sputnik plant looks fake, likes to live indoors and those little ball flower heads really are golden. Said Bonsai expert told me it was called Mikado syngonanthes chrysanthes. Shuffled the three parts of it in the Plant Finder and [...]  June 8, 2010 | Monthly black list I am almost heading for the weird and wild lands with the genus Arisaema, known as Cobra lilies. They are such strange plants, but now that I have joined the Blotanical network, no doubt someone will post me with the message that the cat scratches its back on them by the kitchen door. The one [...] June 5, 2010 | Plantaholic Post This is Lychnis flos-cuculi ‘Jenny’, related to hedgerow Ragged Robin. Yes, I know it was all-over Chelsea Flower Show but there it was, sitting on a stand in a grassy Floral Marquee @Suffolkshow and I had to have it. Beware the plant-breeders rights thing. Legalities to one side, it looks like a shell [...] May 25, 2010 | Plantaholic Post Pennisetum massaicum Red Buttons looking seriously good on the Knoll stand at Chelsea Flower Show. Likes a sunny well drained site and would look great with persicarias and or echinaceas. Like it? Click to share, tweet and save Hide Sites $$(‘div.d373′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(’slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) }); May 11, 2010 | Plantaholic Post Lovely peony with joke name Paeonia mlokosewitchii transcendental in Sunday’s rain. Less yellow than usual. Like it? Click to share, tweet and save Hide Sites $$(‘div.d280′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(’slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) }); May 6, 2010 | Plantaholic Post This is Omphalodes cappadocica ‘Cherry Ingram’. Lucky her, I would love to have this sparkling blue patch of woodland flower named after me. Seen at the RHS garden called Hyde Hall earlier this week – I had gone on a recce of rose pruning but found the woodland planting much more enticing. Like it? Click to share, [...] April 27, 2010 | Plantaholic Post Tulipa Antraciet Tulupa Antraciet, a double late flowering tulip, is in flower right now. It looks particularly fine in lead planters, or surrounded by a slate mulch or, as in this garden, planted in clumps through mounds of cranesbills. Repeat it over again in groups of 15 to 20 bulbs and keep bright colours [...] |
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