Desert Island Discs

Hi, I would prefer to take 4 lots of seed, sweetcorn, potatoe's, carrots and some sort of green veg, I could then sow the seed, let some lower and produce seed for the following year, and still have something to eat, but if you mean " ornamental plants" then I would take a fast growing bamboo, probably for all 4,you can eat the new shoots, and when it grows you can build all sorts of things with it, ie shelter, Derek.

They would be cacti of course lol .... They would do well on a desert island,
but I would have an awful job deciding which four to take !

Not very practical, but I am not a practical sort of person ...

hywel what will you eat i would take bananas then i would make a banana boat when they had grown big because people used to get here on banana boats i know because many people said in our conversations,do you think i came on a banana boat,

i would take four yellow plants because i love yellow :-)

I would take my favourite rose, rosa 'Mundi', Salix integra 'Hakuro Nishiki', Eucalyptus tree and a flowering cherry tree...it was extremely hard to make up my mind...

I would take cosmos, dahlias, gazanias and rudbeckias. I would probably starve to death, but would do so looking at these beautiful flowers! lol.

It was difficult to choose though!

couldn't make a decision. but peony and rose new dawn are 2 I'd take providing the desert island was magical and ensured they survived the conditions.

Snoopy, I would probably starve to death like Lijemc :o)

Well it does not have to be a desert island. This island has a perfect climate, lovely soil, local inhabitants who are so pleased to see you, that they will see to your every need. All you have to do is garden. How does that sound?

This is so hard! If the islanders will give me veg and all the freshly picked gooseberries and rhubarb I want I will take my double white hellebore, a Judas tree,which I hope would grow there, a penstemon because it flowers so long, and I could swap cuttings with the islanders, and some English bluebells for the perfume and to remind me of home, and when they spread i can swap some for daffodils???. Always supposing that the Judas tree and bluebells would fourish in the smame climate...

Hywel,
you could bring prickly pear (oputina) cactus. It has beautiful blooms and is edible :-)
Traditionally, the Mexicans use several parts of this plant. The green pads are used as a vegetalbe and herbal remedy. The fruits may be eaten fresh, or cooked or they may be crushed and strained and the resulting juice used as is, or to make syrups, jellies, beverages, etc. So there you go...I made one choice for you :-)
I am way too practical so apple tree, blueberries, some herbal or medicinal plants as well. Some of them are quite beautiful.

I would take a pink rhodi which my husbands uncle gave us when we first moved here. A red oriental poppy which a very generous fried dug up from his garden. Summer Jasmine for fragrance and shade and potatoes because I am greedy.

Thank you Klahanie :o)) I'll remember to put one on my list ! ;o)

Like Tresco in the Scillies?
I, d have a lemon tree that could live outside and I'd make my own lemonade
and one of my favorite trees Poplar candicans Aurora to remind me of my family (dad planted it for gran, now it reminds me of all of them)
and pansies in pretty colours to see their smiling faces
Tresco already has such lovely tropical plants that I'd maybe have waterlilies on my koi pond .....well I am allowed....... it my fantasy :0)))

Hellebore orientalis for spring flowering
Rose Brother Cadfael for summer long flowering
Sedum spectablis for autumn
Mahonia for winter

or... I could make list upon list!

Could not possibly choose, I'd want everything to go with me.........

0H BOTHER! I had made up my mind that I was going to buy Rose New Dawn, but now I have seen Brother Cadfael I am really torn.

I'd have to have Rosa Graham Thomas, some variety of acer, a camellia, some sempervivum, though how I'd choose one variety from the many I have I don't know!

I am like Lincs. it would be impossible for me to choose, perhaps a spring bulb, a highly scented, long flowering summer rose, an autumn long flowering evergreen shrub, and a Christmas tree.......as for varieties, well now that would be verrrrrrrry difficult!!

well, as long as the locals keep me well fed, I'd take cosmos first of all..so I could sit and watch the butterflies...then a mock orange bush so I could breathe in that heavenly scent....then a healthy russian olive tree so I could read a good book in it's dappled shade...and finally a whopping big maple tree so I could remember my home....when do we leave?...

Just seen your opuntia suggestion Hywel - I tried the fruit on the Canary islands and it was quite nice, but you had to be really careful to remove all the little barbed hairs so you'll need totake something to scrape them off with.