Specialty Gardening: By special request (part 3), 1 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
rutholive, your screen must have a dark tint, the flowers are a lovely mid pink colour but lavender sounds nice! The weather we're having now is a lot warmer than it should be, the average for now is 12C but it's getting to 17C (63F) or more, the weekend was up to 25C in places, that's 77F!

We are also having no rain, in nearly 4 weeks nothing except for a smattering a couple of nights ago that hardly wet the ground. The weather forecasters said this area has had only 3% of the normal April showers, I doubt we have had that!

What were the 3 shrubs on your short list Donna? The garden centres around me get what comes in from Holland and other places, the things that look good and will sell. One does have a good supply of other plants but I rarely go now, I shop more on the internet! What a let down for you, but it's still nice to get out, it must have felt like a holiday after the winter!

Your petrol is Sooooo cheap, ours is up again to 90.9 pence per litre but it had gone to £1! That's £3.44 for an US gallon, the exchange rate is a little over $2 to £1 now, it works out at $6.89.

Imperial gallon = 4.54609 litres (277.419 in³)
US (liquid) gallon = 3.785411784 litres (231 in³)
US (dry) gallon = 4.4048841 litres (268.8 in³)

That can be confusing! It seems the US pint is 16oz, our pint is 20 oz, but they both have 8 pints to the gallon!

elizaatfalls, I love osteospermum, I did have two a few years ago with the spoon shaped petals, a white and purple, both with darker reverse. They spray them with dwarfing compound to keep them compact, when they grow again they get tall and straggly. I kept some in the greenhouse for a couple of years but gave up on them, I even got seed from them and grew more but they didn't behave. I do have two hardy ones in the garden, they do take a lot of frost.

This white one has a slatey blue reverse, it spreads and roots so each spring I cut it back and pull some up.