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I find the grow-through grids with legs ideal for supporting herbaceous paeonies

Does this tree blossom before it leafs? or is that the foliage?

Yeah Spritz Well done!! Mine survived too :o )

Well Done You Barbara :)

Your plant is doing what it ought. Not what the B&Q label says. 'Weemamabell' has got it right. Pretty much any plant, especially the borderline ones will happily survive a cool (not freezing) winter with drier compost and return when the weather warms up and the light increases.

Do you think that sometimes its because they want you to buy a new one next year instead of giving a bit of advice on how it may be kept through the winter ? Well done ! its always worth giving it a go eh ?

What a Fantastic Colour :O

Love how these Curl :D

Great colors together !

This is very spectacular. The bush it's from is wonderful. Best of luck with it this year.

Good for you Spritz... ENJOY !

What a lovely success story, Spritz. Well done ! And, what a beautiful container and planting.

One of my favourite historical collectors is David Douglas, whose name is attached to over 240 different plants, from the mighty Douglas Fir down to Limnanthes douglasii - the dreaded "Poached Egg Plant", which, although useful for attracting beneficial insects, spreads like wildfire.

well done,, i like browsing around b&q so i will def keep an eye out for this. nice long flowering season on it too which is great.

Some of my tulips are n bud too, so won't be long.

Hope you enjoy the book as much as we have!

Yep me too Spritz , Eddie just ordered the book from Amazon for me , I think it will be really interesting , Thanks Owdboggy !

Hi lost you for a bit... I have the red crocosmia 'Lucifer', it is stellar in a clump...gorgeous stuff...
about the Dephiniums, in my pictures it's on the third page...it is a pic of the clump I rescued when it had been planted about a month(it was blooming)...for scale the link fence behind it is eight feet tall... it suffered no transplant shock and bloomed beautifully...moved it to a more sheltered spot that fall and the next summer it topped the 8 foot fence!!

I googled BA and found a book by him called 'Gardening on Chalk and Limestone'. Also found a Thymus pulegioides 'BA' and also a Sedum 'BA'.
:-) Sometimes, plants are named after the people who first discovered/collected them. Can't think of one offhand, but there are lots like that.

Well done, Owdboggy !!!

There is a book called Who do you grow? with this info in it. Bertram Anderson was a famous British gardener and writer who found lots of varieities in the various gardens he made and named them or had them named after him.

Who Does Your Garden Grow? (ISBN: 0951813307)
Alex Pankhurst

No answer to your question...but an observation...sometimes it is not the person who did the work of developing the new var. but the name of a person of inspiration...maybe just google Bertram Anderson and see what you come up with.
Well so much for that...all I found were references to various sedums...lol. perhaps go to the RBS site and see if there is a forum there where you can ask your question.

Oh,Spritz, you sound as bad as me!.What's in a name? A lot of interesting history, as far as I'm concerned, sometimes only familial, but nonetheless great reading! Can't help with ol' B.A. right now, but will keep an eye and ear open!

I love old stone walling. Wish I had some where to build one in my garden. It sets off the planting perfectly.

ahhh thats them!

Hi Barbara, these are completely different to the ones i was recomending anyway - but if anything they look far better were they very expensive?

Super. They should do very well in the shady spot.We have grown the same variety this year,and they are making a lovely display.

Hello Barbara, I've used supports like the above for my paeonies...they work well.

I'm afraid it is not in the nurseries' interests to put warnings on the plants they sell....

Hi Spritz - I must admit, I didn't know the species name, but I've looked it up. It seems that most garden varieties are officially referred to by the genus (Crocosmia) and the variety alone, i.e. no species name used. However, it does give Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora (C. aurea x C. pottsii) known by the common name of Montbretia and the description sounds just like 'the ordinary one'. I suspect a lot of illicit plant breeding has gone on with this plant, leaving the genetics all mixed up, which is the only reason I can think of why no species name is used...?