Bulbs: Summer Bulbs - Pictures and Discussion - Part Deux, 1 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
Lovely combo neal, the blue geraniums I think are always a nice filler and compliment to other plants. Do you know the name of the astilbe?

Andy I took a lot of seed off my dahlia BC and the species , also Collarette Dandy. I really don't have anywhere to put more, but it was a good insurance. I have quite a few growing from self set seed of all of them, and it was a very long, cold winter with frost to -9C. They all already have buds on too, the established ones that is.

Tammy, orange poppies, pink peonies, you must have forgotten what was there!

I think a lot of people actually DO make bad combinations. Some seem to like just everything that is gaudy and throw them together!

I tend to go for plants not to fill a gap, but because I am inspired by them, often it's just the way the foliage looks, or the colour of a flower that suits it's form. I never plan to buy a plant for a specific purpose. When time comes to put them somewhere it seems as if they were made for each other. It's almost as if they are an extension of my own nature, so yes nature does come into it.

This peony Honey Gold I put in where I took out a shrub that was knocked back by winter, I had 3 that need a place in the ground and this proved ideal. The long stems laid over Sedum Purple Emperor to good effect.