Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
HOL Flower Show - May (aka. what's good in your garden *now*)
As this is the season of flower shows, it seems only appropriate for Harringay Online to make its own contribution. I'm thinking of something online, free and local rather than some other flower shows.... also it being a repository of flowers/shrubs/trees that people can grow locally without necessarily having a greenhouse or a degree in horticulture.
These are the guidelines I'm thinking of:
- Flowers/shrubs/trees grown in Harringay. All my stuff is fairly hardy, so doesn't require constant attention or worrying about frost but don't let that limit contributions from experts.
- No judges, silver gilt awards etc. If you like it that's good enough.
I am by no means an expert so I am looking for ideas as much as anyone else!
Here are three from my garden this morning to start things off:
Pyracantha - an absolute mass of flowers at the moment so popular with the bees. Also very robust - foxes might destroy some plants but the spines on this chap are quite a deterrent. Arguably its best display comes later in the year though.
Nigella (Love-in-a-mist) - just noticed the first one yesterday opening. An interesting/unusual flower and very easy to grow - buy one packet and it will self-seed all over the place in subsequent years.
Allium. I think this one is 'gigantea' (it is quite big...). These chaps have been out a week or two now - fairly long-lasting and extremely easy to grow.
I'm intending to start a thread with something for each month of the year, though Dec/Jan could be challenging...
These are the guidelines I'm thinking of:
- Flowers/shrubs/trees grown in Harringay. All my stuff is fairly hardy, so doesn't require constant attention or worrying about frost but don't let that limit contributions from experts.
- No judges, silver gilt awards etc. If you like it that's good enough.
I am by no means an expert so I am looking for ideas as much as anyone else!
Here are three from my garden this morning to start things off:
Pyracantha - an absolute mass of flowers at the moment so popular with the bees. Also very robust - foxes might destroy some plants but the spines on this chap are quite a deterrent. Arguably its best display comes later in the year though.
Nigella (Love-in-a-mist) - just noticed the first one yesterday opening. An interesting/unusual flower and very easy to grow - buy one packet and it will self-seed all over the place in subsequent years.
Allium. I think this one is 'gigantea' (it is quite big...). These chaps have been out a week or two now - fairly long-lasting and extremely easy to grow.
I'm intending to start a thread with something for each month of the year, though Dec/Jan could be challenging...
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Permalink Reply by alistairj on
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You've been having fun! I'd never heard of pineapple sage but I've just looked it up and it is described as a 'tender perennial' - does that mean you have to protect it at the first sign of cold/frost?
re. the macro/flower button. I think in August you will be looking for the panorama/landscape button? ;-) -
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Permalink Reply by Liz on
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No we never do any thing with it, it sits in a pot in the garden and flowers when it feels like it. We bought it at a plant sale having no idea about it and haven't nurtured it all and it just keeps on going, unlike my Sunflowers who all keeled over again at the first sign of the funny "cold/hot/cold" weather that is the British spring.
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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Rose, Buff Beauty
Rambling Rose Albertine in bud (All the open flowers are too high!)
Clematis Cezanne
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Zantedeschia in the pond
Solanum Glasvenin (This plant is superb about 9 feet high by about 8 feet wide, covered in flowers from top to bottom from now through till July/August..........or am I romanticising?).
Clematis Niobe
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These are impressive, Hugh!
That Zantedeschia looks perfect - I think I will have to acquire a pond somehow before I attempt that one though.
Not heard of Solanum Glasnevin but apparently the common name is 'Chilean potato tree'. If anything you were understating the flowering period - according to bbc.co.uk it is a very impressive July to October (which makes yours very early). -
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Permalink Reply by matt on
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Hasn't he done well. The shot of the Dicentra Gold Heart below is stunning Hugh. :)
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Thanks - have to confess to a wee bit of photoshopping on that one to compensate for the rather dull light today, but the colours are true for brighter conditions.
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It always starts in April/May - found this photo in my files earlier from May 30th 2006 (Much crisper with the sunshine). It's my second solanum. There was one here when I moved in but my neighbour killed it off with over-eager pruning by snapping off branches. It is a real performance plant. (PS I'm pretty sure Zantedeschia does ok in the ground. In my pond it goes mad. There are more than twenty blooms at the moment, but it's had to fight a bit to find the sun and half has just collapsed into the water - as you can see if you look at the picture carefully. You can also see evidence of my weakness for acers creeping in to the edge of the picture - although this dissectum atropurpureum's had a tough winter/spring for some reason and suffered quite a bit of dieback).
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I've worked for at least half an hour now, so a quick coffee in the garden, and, save getting the ladder out, no way to snap this flower - so a flower "view". (Notice how the bugger keeps favouring the neighbour's garden to the right! My boundary is around the dark green berberis roughly centre of the picture.)
Climbing rose, Madame Alfred Carriere -
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