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Planting depth is as important as temperature. The top of the bud should be no more than 1 inch below soil level. In fact it can be above the soil.

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Thanks all for looking in and leaving your comments ... I appreciate it very much ... :o))

Good idea ... :o)

Thanks David, I rarely shop in supermarkets other than my regular one but a friend told me about these ... :o)

Thanks both, shame they're not in my own garden!

That accounts for the rapid growth.

Julia, I have never the stems like this before. There is water between them and the low railing.

Oh those hateful things. When I lift off the lid of my Dalek compost bin they're are often tiny slugs in the lid. They soon get 'bashed' into the garden waste bin, she said, smiling evilly!

It would have been rude not to !!

He actually knew the one I meant, even with his colour blindness!

Thanks Shirley..I find myself leaning towards structural plants in the garden.

I think I've got you! What was his reply?? This Pittisporum is one of my favourites.

This is beautiful. We have just got in from shopping and I asked Michael if he liked the 'purply' Hebe 'Silver Anniversary' growing in our garden as I would like more evergreens in shades of, well, not green!!

Nice to be able to do a bit in the garden I'm hoping to do some today, I've done the odd little job here and there and better weather here today :-))

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A lovely stroll with you Shirley around a garden I have never been to before. It looks really well maintained with some lovely plants and areas. I love the bark on that Cherry Tree. Thank you for being our guide.

Lovely! I think those little Narcissi are my favourites from your blog. Sunshine in a flower :)

Well, I have 9 bare roots and I’ll pot them up today, and hopefully they will be ready to plant out in May. We’ll see. I don’t usually buy plants bare-rooted. But they were available so….

It absolutely lashed us with rain all day yesterday Shirley. Dry this morning and a lot of little slugs everywhere.

A very interesting garden Shirley..thank you for showing us.Good to see admission is free.!

Agree with Klahanie.

Very impressive!

Very beautiful flower, it looks like an orchid.

Yes, avocado trees become very large and very wide, depending on variety.

Avocado trees fruit all year, depending on the variety. This is why we’re the avocado capital growing area in the US.

Yes, and it’s extremely expensive to move such a large palm.

Oh, I don’t know if there’s double flowers available here, either.

Yes, it was ☹️

For over twenty years they didn’t have a trunk, then around 1998 they started developing trunk and took off growing pretty fast. It still takes about 150 plus years to develop a trunk about 200 ft.

Stan,

This is a USDA zone 9a plant, according to what I’ve read. It would easily grow where you live.

I bought one at the Berkeley botanical garden. Long story short,I left it behind thinking it was too tropical for outdoors. At least i should have tried a cutting. Live and learn I guess.

They are big trees so I understand why you are pulling them out Delonix. Are you just dumping them?
I love avocados. When are they fruiting around San Diego?
We picked them up from the ground around the Christmas time in Mexico ....competing with Mexican stray (street) dogs...they loved them too :-).

I've seen them a couple of times and with no trunk and what looked to me like not enough watering,they were sort of ugly!
That has really changed and they are the most exotic looking palm we can grow in the bay area. The ugly duckling became a swan.

I think they look cute together. Very spring like.

Thanks so much, Shirley, for sharing with us your stroll around Highdown gardens! :) Lovely to see so many flowers open & that Cherry tree has fabulous bark!:)

You have a eye for a bargain, Shirley! These are lovely plants! :)

Glad it brought back some lovely memories from your childhood, Shirley! :)

It's true I grow it in pots but I don't find it invasive at all! However some little tubers must have made it into some pots of Daffodils that I later planted out in the gardens of my old church as I saw several leaves in different places! But they can't have liked the soil or whatever because they didn't seem to multiply & I never did see any flowers on them.

I was taking a few pictures the other day of the plants growing & flowering in the gardens but I didn't see any sign of this plant - probably because it is very early in the year yet & they don't show their heads before the start of May on the balcony.

Thanks folks.

I hope they thrive in your garden ... really lovely flowers.

Karen, they are so pretty. I can see how they cheered you up. It was a dry, if grey, start to the day so we went up to Highdown gardens this morning, desperate to get some clean air and see some flowers in bloom.

I agree with Hywel ... it is lovely.

Now this brings back a childhood memory for me as my Nan had this growing everywhere! Well, it seemed that way to me when I was very young ... :o)

You do have some lovely Hebes.

Well done for finding the perfect position for this lovely flower to grow.

Hooray!

I did a search on Peonies Zone 10, and there they talk about the difficulties, even to dumping ice on the plants! Some people mention digging them up and putting them in the fridge. This is the downside of living in a warm area.

Klahanie, I have planted the Primroses now, in the back garden where I can see them from the kitchen window.

Lindak, that's good to know they're flowering well. No sun today, but then again, no rain either!

I agree, mine isnt showing any sign of growth, but I have excavated round it and the crown is firm. Harvesting my own forced stuff up in E Yorks is usually mid March.

not aware of needing a chilling to flower. But I find they 'sulk' for at least 1 or 2 years after moving. and flower well after that.
I've added the RHS link for you.

https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/peony/herbaceous/growing-guide