Simply..deadheading....

16/7/2017

10 Comments

Some gentle gardening to keep the flowers coming..

Literally hundreds each year from a few small clumps of Papaver ruprifragum.

I have not been gentle with the alstroemeria! I have been trying to get rid of them for years because they run wildly through everything giving barely a flower. Until now. They must have got the message...lots of flowers this year.

Crocosmia 'Lucifer' is getting thuggish too.

Would you agree you can have too much of a good thing?

10 Comments

Linda

17/7/2017 06:34:03 am

We have huge clusters of crocosmia. I think if they were left they would eventually reach and join up with yours, they are so intent on world domination. A few in a tall vase are very pretty, though.

Freda

17/7/2017 02:21:11 pm

They do look stunning in the house!

Lotta

17/7/2017 09:27:50 am

Isn't ruprifragum a satisfying word? So much so that it keeps repeating itself in my head now... by bedtime it may have become too much of a good thing!

Freda

17/7/2017 02:23:56 pm

It means 'growing in rock crevices' or in gravel here..

cath

17/7/2017 10:49:08 am

Yes there definitely can be a limit to good things as well. Pancakes is what comes to mind immediately, although part of me would like to disagree..... but probably you meant in the garden?

Freda

17/7/2017 02:25:09 pm

No, I meant of anything! Pancakes, chocolate...

julia

17/7/2017 02:25:44 pm

yes...even day lilies and irises can begin to choke each other out...but freda..do you know that we pay good money for alstroemeria in our grocery store? and here you are weeding them out! i can never have too many peonies though...or poppies...:-)

Freda

17/7/2017 02:32:37 pm

They do make a great cut flower - which was why I planted them in the first place, but after their first year they hardly produced a flower. Peonies, poppies, sweet peas, night scented stock.....oh yes!

Lucille link

21/7/2017 03:45:58 am

An extremely mild mannered friend of mine astounded me by declaring vehemently that she hated crocosmia. I'm grateful for minein an inhospitable area of the garden.

Sarah link

21/7/2017 02:03:12 pm

I never managed to get my alstroemeria to flower and took it out in the end. I should have been more patient like you. I do find crocosmia can get of hand but I will pull up the bulbs up at this time of year and bring the flowers inside and enjoy them in vases. Sarah x

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