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Saturday morning saw us visiting a local privately-owned nursery, which does mainly mail-order, in order to get some plants to put around our three new roses when they arrive …. hopefully within the next day or two. We came home with four new plants, photos of 3 of them below, & we will go back for some more this weekend, as I am still not able to walk around for long periods yet. Can’t wait to get these new ones planted, along with the new roses. Two of three roses we have planted over the past three weeks, are now in bud, & my mystery ‘climbing’ rose is also in bud. The veilchenblau climber, put in about a month ago, appears to be doing well, with lots of new foliage. Everything else planted over the past six weeks, is doing very well, though I am keeping an almost paranoid eye on my native clematis panniculata, having lost others to clematis wilt within two or three weeks of planting. Will also be buying a couple of trees & larger shrubs over the weekend.

Photos below show …. Echinops Bannaticus Blue Globe …. Euphorbia x Martinii …. Orthrosanthus Multiflorus (blue star flower). The fourth (not shown) is Lychnis Coronaria Alba.

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gorgeous! Echinops Bannaticus Blue Globe is so nice - I lso have Euphorbia x martinii and been so very pleased with it , I think I have that Lychnis in the woodland part too :)))

11 Oct, 2011

 

Very nice Dwyllis, I am sure you will be pleased with those. Have you got your clematis planted nice and deep, with the roots shaded ? Just a thought, as they do like that.

11 Oct, 2011

 

How lovely. I really like the top one.

11 Oct, 2011

 

I had a clematis die, I thought from wilt quite a few years back, I never got the roots out as it was growing through a rose, however delighted to say it reappeared this summer and had a few flowers on it..
Nice plants Dwyllis, pleased to hear you are getting about a bit more...

11 Oct, 2011

 

Lovely selection there

11 Oct, 2011

 

I Love to top one to Alex but a great selection:)

11 Oct, 2011

 

Thanks everybody. I am really enjoying being able to get out a little bit now, & can't wait until my new roses arrive to get them planted & then can plant these new ones too. Planning the garden is proving to be so much fun ... I would have been so bored being stuck indoors otherwise. Re the clematis Cinderella & Lincslass .... I only remembered that it should be planted deeply, a couple of days After we had planted it. So I piled up more earth around it, & hope that will be ok. I knew about the roots liking it cool, so had already placed three large stones around it, & as it is planted in a corner between house & fence, with a tree nearby, it gets afternoon shade from around 1.30pm onwards. I also have a small statue in front of it, which should help to shade the roots too. I can only hope for a good outcome.

11 Oct, 2011

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