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Sure is thuggish. I am constantly trying to prevent it from overwhelming smaller rock garden plants. I try to introduce it to difficult parts of the garden wher nothing else is growing.

I just planted one of these, hope it does as well as yours!

Love the colours.....

Could the kids not grow the plants as a school project? I remember growing a broad bean at primary school - It produced 1 pod, which contained 1 bean, which contained 1 worm!!!!! No wonder I wouldn't touch broad beans as a kid!

This is Truely Lovely Spritz think id tip toe down this path myself :)

Love the colour :)

GREAT photo ! Yes Grammazoo, very inviting.

GREAT impulse ! Beautiful

Love this color Spritz.

I had two last year. No sign of them this year, so either it was too dry or too cold.

I like Bonkers' logic.... x-D

this weekend there is a plant sale at one of our local schools, i wont be going as last yr it was awful, no labels on any of the plants and most were dying , to be honest some looked like weeds lol, also our local supermarket got a delivery of beautiful plants during the week, i went in the day after they had been delivered and omg they looked bad, no one had thought to water them.
at the local garden centre here you run the risk of a soaking when the sprinklers come on but believe me i would rather risk getting drenched knowing that the plants are being looked after.

Sometimes in a garden centre I've found plants with no label, or even bought a plant, not realising it had the wrong label. This has hapened several times in a Fuchsia nursery near here. With Fuchsias you can't really tell which variety it is without seeing the flower. It is very annoying. People who go to garden centres and nurseries are probably interested, to some degree at least, in gardening. I can't understand why they are not more careful to put the label back in the right pot, if they have to take it out atall.
Yesterday in our local town I happened to be passing a well-known store and there was a stall outside with lots of plants. Not being able to resist having a look, I only found that most of them were dead and the others were dying through lack of water. What's wrong with these people ? That's another annoying thing.

What a lovely bloom.! The star in the center is gorgeous.!

Oooh Spritz look what you started sat here minding my own business then the words rant and Chelsea got me going ....

No idea Spritz but if named after Richard Nixons - there will be no whitewash at the Whitehouse - wife , then probably a white variety.

Your not alone Spritz a good rant is what we Brits do best esp when combined with gardening.Today was very warm and trying sell unlabelled wilting plants couldn t be easy.Trouble is often donated by those who dont know what they are giving.With your school experience and gardening knowledge couldnt you give some guidelines to local fund raisers? Suggest they grow plants in trays esp for summer bedding when such fairs popular etc.

Very inviting!

Beautiful yellow... :-)

Bought one of these last week for £2.00 as a Save Me just needs some TLC Hope it turns out like yours Beautiful

Just gorgeous.

That was a good impulse, I think.

Beautiful

Some of mine are very close to being out too. Wait for the round of Rose photos.

Sooooo many flowers out!!!

I'm tripping over plants :-(

I get hayfever whether I'm indoors or out, so it doesn't really matter with me where I am. At least you get your garden all to yourself!

I've got these too, just coming into flower, also a variagated one.

Very smart bench!

depends how greedy the sheep is hehe!!