OOH! OOH! OOH! NEW PLANT CATALOGUE !
By bornagain
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I’m just looking through my new T&M catalogue and drooling. Isn’t it exciting! They’ve even included a deliberate mistake p.23. I’m in love with so many new plants. On the first page is a giant highly perfumed cascading begonia which could be just the thing for outside my back door so that I get a perfume hit each time I go in or out. I have two pots on the wall at the side of the door. Oh, but then there is sweet pea ‘sugar & spice’ they are lovely and sweet smelling….and trailing carnations and if you buy enough (10) you get a free window box….ah but then I’d have to get round to using the drill (don’t like the noise) maybe just buy 5 and not get window box:-) Can’t quite make my mind up. I wonder if the pot is large enough for the probably massive tuber of the giant begonia? For some reason these words are spoken with a rubbish french accent in my head, a la “fallen Madonna with the big boobies”.
There are some lovely new plants and I’ve only skimmed it really, there’s a beautiful fuchsia ‘amethyst beauty’, trailing rosebud pelargoniums, an 8ft tall pink tree lily. A climbing pelargonium!!! oh, I think it’s really a trailing one. A new and beautiful cottage garden mix viola…. oooh a beautiful pelargonium ‘flower candy’ mixed, a cross between ‘angel’ and ‘regal’ a new euphorbia ‘breathless’ very dainty but I’m sure I’ve seen it somewhere before. OH and WOW!!!!!! a fantastic oriental poppy that blooms 4-6 weeks and then a second flush from July to September. Aaaaaaaaah I am truly enamoured.
I just clicked on ‘publish’ when a little window opened and asked me if I was sure I wanted to publish my blog? eeek:o do we have a web page critic now? Return of paranoia :(( A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL: ))))) Ps I can’t have a nose or a line appears through writing????
31 Dec, 2009
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I've got so many catalogues that the choice is bewildering....
Great to sit in the warm and plan, though - watch that credit card, Ba! LOL.
31 Dec, 2009
I know Spritz, I've just seen the most handsome tricolour pennisetum 'fireworks' . But they do have a few, what I consider, uglies, such as the daylily 'exploded pumpkin' honest, that's what it's called, and it does look rather like one. it's not exactly the 'look' I was going for myself :-) No Mad, not a drop has passed my lips.....yet ;-)) Hope you are feeling well?
31 Dec, 2009
Ah-ha! Just found the 'uglies' - and I agree. I don't like that peculiar Oxalis in red/white, either. That Pennisetum is great, though!
What do you think of the 'So eezee' idea? (p. 79). 'So expensive' I would say! Or 'so lazee' LOL.
31 Dec, 2009
I think the so eezee may be so disposable so you have to buy them each year:-( I don't really get it, is it just that you have pre-cut slits?? I'm not so sure about the giant begonias now, they may look a trifle incongruous in my not-so-large pots. Now what do you think of the oriental poppies? you can be brutally honest:-) and aren't you amazed at the deliberate mistake? I searched every bit of the page to find the geraniums:-))
31 Dec, 2009
Just looked at that Daylily - that is gross!!! Perhaps the oxalis looks better when the flowers are open?
1 Jan, 2010
Hi Wagger, but what about my oriental poppies? and have you seen the trailing osteospermum? :-))))
1 Jan, 2010
Had my T&M leaflets come aswell.
1 Jan, 2010
The Falling Stars look lovely but their basket is a bit white top-heavy - what happened to the other colours? Makes me suspicious that they're not as vigorous as the white. The Pennisetum is lovely but very expensive for what is ultimately 'bedding' - not hardy. I haven't got enough room to store what I have now let alone add to it, lol. The Super poppies? Not sure about them and I think I have enough orientals as it is. Will carry on browsing.
1 Jan, 2010
Oh you're very hard to please Wagger, and these poppies bloom for months according to T&M! I don't suppose I'll end up buying much if anything, but I always find it so exciting:-))))).....I've led a very sheltered life:-( ;-))))
1 Jan, 2010
I take everything T&M say with a large pinch of salt - they may, in ideal circumstances, with huge amounts of care throw up one more odd bloom later, etc. I think I'll take your last comment with a pinch of salt too!!! lol
1 Jan, 2010
:-)
1 Jan, 2010
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A jolly sort of blog - are you already celebrating the New Year!! Only joking, you sound very exhilerated by the catalogue. Yes its lovely to plan and dream isn't it. Happy New Year anyway.
31 Dec, 2009