Good morning to all and especially
@Logan I went to bed and of course, he woke up and listened to his macbook on headphone. He's a child at heart and would repeat to me whatever he thought was funny. It's very difficult to feign interest all the times.
Haha! What a good way to start bonsai! A privet in a stylish bonsai dish. You don't really need to change the pot as it looks lovely. In fact, the whole display unit, the bonsai dish and the privet look lovely. Just shape the privet. I might start doing something like that. I really like it. I have some horrible looking bonsai dishes from freecycle. Might as well make use of them.
Simple but effective and lovely display
I think I should stay away from Flower Festival as the cheapest plant is about £2.99 Royal Rumble salvia. £6.50 for a delphinium.
Poundland was selling Gaura for £1.
And this a similar rudbeckia goldstrum or helenium Hoopesii £1 and you can achieve a similar effect. But with so many people there, the atmosphere was just electric and the queue made the experience somewhat masochistic. You queued up for the car to the entrance, and you queued up to the entrance again and the buzz made me lose my good commonsense. I'm going there on 17 for nighttime reduction 50% if I am lucky!
I think I have bought up all the achilleas .. Plants that I love can take the heat, the sun and the drought and yet the display is stunning .. bees love them. I even bought a black sedum for £3.50
I love this dainty patches .. the colours, the textures ..
This time, I have discovered some gorgeous agapanthus, the legend from Hoyland was there £10 for 3 tiny plugs .. One thing very interesting was that all the couples were clamping their styles by counting coins.. How else could you stop yourself from haemorrhaging your money? ... Use coins and stop buying when the coins were no more!
I still have no idea if this is a butterfly or milk- weed? One thing for sure is that it is not an Asclepias tuberosa. I have about 10 of the latter dotting around, but they have not flowered and I was so fed up that I bought one in flower. This is a different one, but they were so pretty. A couple bought £12 for 3. I cried blood!
I could not find a cheaper one. Might try fleabay again!
This alstro White heart asked for £10..
I want to have every single colour of these echinaceas.
Thalictrum has depreciated by £5. £10 this year.
What you see here is Hyde Hall itself. This grass burst into the scene this year. Saw thing 2 or 3 times this year together with the Sanguisorba, they make a lovely display
The thuggish crocosmias make a lovely partner to the red helenium.
