Specialty Gardening: By special request., 0 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
I'm back, had to 'finally' do some food!

I got the Magnlia sieboldii from ebay as a young plant, it as grown fairly quickly and i think is about 3' tall. I bought one a few years ago and kept it in a large pot for a couple of years until I knew where to put it, but the thing had been grown in peat and you know what happens to those! You get side shoots which get smaller until the thing dies, roots died and rotted. I next bought some seeds which haven't grown for at least 2 years, I tipped the pot out around the tree so if some grow I can say it has seeded around.

There is that tall lily behind the Viburnum to the left African Queen, it may be the top you can see, unless it's the trunk of the Acacia. The Viburnum had a lovely scent too.

The Commelina is much smaller thanTradescantia but yes similar in looks, I had a couple set in the vegetable bed amongst the carrots, they grew bigger and one in the old baby bath tub did very well, it's still there. I have more seed so will sprinkle some in the new bed so it can do it's own thing, I put some there last year at one end of the start of it (done the previous year) and couldn't remember what it was when it grew!

I have some Babiana that I like lined up but the leaves and growth habit on yours Emellle looks great. Many are hardy to zone 8 but they may not like not having enough sun, next time I order from silverhill....

This is the lily you will remember Neal peeking above the Ceanothus, it didn't do well last year but the year before was very tall.