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Simply..back down to the good earth....

26/4/2015

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..after my fantasies of a fashionable life in yesterday's post. (Well, I do enjoy a taste of it now and then!)

We've had a spell of good gardening weather and came back from Yorkshire with a boot full of plants from Vertigro, a favourite nursery near York. Bedding mainly, bought small and potted on, they will stay in the greenhouse for a few weeks, cossetted with fleece on cold nights...I know I should nip off these early flowers for bushier plants and more flowers later, but the smell of the heliotrope is heavenly.
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I will cut the heliotrope flowers for little vases in the bedroom - that way I get the perfume and the bushy plants. I am planning to put them in the big black pots with fuchsia 'Genii' but it does take a good warm summer for them to do well outside here...The argyranthemum are red (I thought I was buying white) and covered in buds. I have three so will pinch out one and get a succession that way. The bidens will get a good trim too and the flowers will make a little vase-full. The coriander, dill and fennel are for the leaves of course, but also for the flowers when they go to seed later in the summer.

There are also baby lettuce, diascia, bacopa, petunia, pink campion, poppies, and my friend's sunflowers in there.

I love the greenhouse at this time of year.

It is full of hope.
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Swissrose link
26/4/2015 04:21:55 pm

Mmh, I do love heliotrope, that cherry-pie smell, yum!! It's not easily available for me but when I do see any, I grab them to use around the outdoor seating area :)

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Freda
27/4/2015 07:19:35 am

Delicious, isn't it!

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elaine link
26/4/2015 04:47:12 pm

I always find it hard to decide which plants I am going to use for my summer containers - there is so much choice! I am already running out of room in the greenhouse! I guess I still have plenty of time to make my decisions as we are still getting overnight frosts.

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Freda
27/4/2015 07:20:37 am

I love choosing something different every year and experimenting with colours. Snow on the hills here today!

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cath
27/4/2015 12:41:44 am

There is an enthousiastically blooming purple variety of Campanula on my balcony just now, other choices, I suspect mostly ornamental grasses still to be made.

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Freda
27/4/2015 07:21:15 am

Have fun choosing Cath.

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Sarah link
28/4/2015 06:59:30 am

i haven't had heliotrope in the garden for a few years. I do love the smell of it and the butterflies like it too! It's already on my list of things to buy! We are having great fun in our greenhouse, the success rate is so much better than the wind sill! i think we have gone a bit mad in setting seeds! Sarah x

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Freda
28/4/2015 07:50:50 am

It's when you pot them on they take up more space than you have! But I love having lots of plants to play with.

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