BBC Gardener's World plant list - 5th June 2009

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Hi Folks,

Hope you all had a great weekend, in case you missed GW, or didn’t get time to write the plants down, here’s the list :o)

This Friday, Toby, Joe and Alys started on their front garden projects which mainly involved hard landscaping, but they did add a few plants:
Front Gardens
Cytisus battandieri (Pineapple broom)
Helianthus annuus ‘Pastiche’ (Annual sunflower)
Lonicera periclymenum ‘Graham Thomas’ (Honeysuckle)

Carol’s class was on propagating from green seed which she said was mainly done with Primula’s:
Primula vulgaris
Primula japonica
Scented:

Toby recommended a whole raft of plants to add scent to a garden:
Hesperis matronalis var. albiflora (White Sweet Rocket)
Nemesia ‘Wisley vanilla’
Elaeagnus ‘Qucksilver’
Dianthus ‘Fizzy’
Heliotropium arborescens ‘Princess Marina’ (Heliotrope
Cosmos atrosanguineus (Chocolate cosmos)

This week’s garden from the public only mentioned one plant, but it was a beautiful red grass:
Imperata cylindrica ‘Rubra’ (Japanese blood grass)

Toby’s creating a spice border and, inspired by a Moroccan spice stall, planted up lots of warm coloured, plus a Cineraria with silver foliage as the canvas:
Oxalis ‘Sunset velvet’
Gazania ‘Daybreak Red Stripe’
Tagetes patula ‘Boy O Boy’ mix (Dwarf French marigold)
Surfinia petunia ‘Burgundy’
Helychrysum petiolare ‘Limelight’
Cineraria ‘Silver Dust’

The tender veggies that were planted out (now the risk of frost has passed):
Sweet corn ‘Swift’
Spinach ‘Fiorano’

And the two Dahlia’s planted by Joe & Alys:
Dahlia ’Twyning’s After Eight’
Dahlia ‘Joe Swift’

Carol waxed lyrical about the Oriental Poppy:
Papaver orientale ‘Beauty of Livermore’
P. ’Patty’s Plum’
P. ’Perry’s White’

Hope you’re all well, and happy gardening :o)

• 8 Jun, 2009
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