Scabiosa 'Barocca'

lovely blackberry colour!

Burgundy, Arlene - burgundy, please - 'cos that's my colour scheme! Loosely interpreted, I'm afraid, due to Mother Nature. lol.

Lovely. Mine has just started to open.

lovely colour spritz

burgundy it is then Barbara!lovely whether blackberry or burgundy!

Mine are waiting to open, i love these flowers !

Beautiful clump of wine - don't mind if it's blackberry or burgundy, lol.

lol.

OOOOOoooohhhhhhh i DO like these!

You could just bite these, like cherries

I'd rather you didn't please Ian. I have enough trouble with munching snails, let alone GOY members nibbling my plants! LOL.

fantastic colours, added to next years want list.

Oh, Ok then, but I deffinatly fancy a bowl of cherries now

Ohhh Yummmmmy..lol

Gorgeous would love these in my Garden!

Spritz, did yours take a long time to actually open-up ?
Mine seem to be taking forever :(
They've been closed for a couple of weeks, how much longer ?? !!!

Yes, they did take an age! I have several now, in the top border too - and they have only just started to open. The ones in the new bed have overtaken them!

You and your new bed have got a lot to answer for Spritzy.
My arms are killing LOL

Why???

Carol read it !

Ooohh nooooo. Sooorrrryyyyy Ian! :-(

Thats all right Spritzy, just next time you dig a border can you let me know, so I have time to leave the country :~)))

I wrote a blog about it !!!

Sorry I missed it - I'll take a look.

This is a good one :o)

are those ever pretty, must try to get some seeds

Still fancy cherries when I look at this, its lurrrrrvly

Oh thats a gorgeous plant on my 'i want this' list!!!

Interestingly enough, the Garden Centres seem to be stocking this Scabious, rather than the 'Chilli Pepper' and 'Chilli Sauce' ones, which turned out to be not as hardy as we thought.

At up, do you still have this plant or has the flooding seen it off?
I'm getting very interested in scabiosa and there are five new ones which Hayloft are selling, they look gorgeous:-)

It survived last winter, but if it gets really cold, that will 'do'' for it, I'm afraid. :-((

Are you expecting an arctic winter Barbara? :-(

One long-range forecast I read warned it could be, Ba, but another was totally different, so who knows?