My favourite foil
- 1 Oct, 2009
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These are lovely I like them too Wagger but only learnt this year that they need the crowns protected in winter.
1 Oct, 2009
Really???? I have never protected them at all! They self seed all over the garden and come up between the paving slabs and where the concrete is cracked. I just love the spontaneity of them and the way they complement other flowers. I do live near the south coast. Maybe the climate is mild enough for them to survive without protection.
1 Oct, 2009
Mine dont do so well and then i found this out so will put compost on the crown this winter.
1 Oct, 2009
I don't think they are very long-lived plants, but mine seed themselves all over the place, too!
1 Oct, 2009
They are a short-lived perennial as you say Spritz...I find seedlings everwhere, even in areas where there aren't any VB planted, i love them and they transplant very readily Penny....good luck...:>)
1 Oct, 2009
I love the way there heads sway above other plants but dont take over the borders.. Verbena's Rock lol..
1 Oct, 2009
It's difficult to overwinter them here too - I pot up a few spares each year for the cold greenhouse or I'd only ever have first year seedlings - tall and spindly.
2 Oct, 2009
You do surprise me, Wagger! Maybe we need to carry out a survey on how they do in different locations - It would be interesting., wouldn't it!
2 Oct, 2009
I can just see me standing in the middle of town with a clipboard accosting the shoppers, lol.
2 Oct, 2009
Weeellllll - what I really meant was in different places in the UK - so you've got a lot of travelling to do with your clipboard, Wagger! I hope you've got a rail card. LOL.
2 Oct, 2009
I'll have to swap in my bus pass for one of those, Spritz!
2 Oct, 2009
That would do, but it might take a bit longer. Bye! See you next October! LOL.
2 Oct, 2009
Bye-bye.
2 Oct, 2009
(Waving) LOL.
2 Oct, 2009
. (That's a little dot in the distance)
2 Oct, 2009
LOL.....No - come back! What's GOY all about? We could ask a question!!!!!!!! I am a genius!
2 Oct, 2009
Only just heard you - I was so far away. That's a good idea, will you do that then? You're more used to posing questions from your previous career (that's called 'passing the buck').
2 Oct, 2009
Oy! I've just posted one! OK, OK. Later!
2 Oct, 2009
Been, seen.
2 Oct, 2009
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You can never have too much verbena bonariensis.
1 Oct, 2009