Last week Lars that owns the local garden center came and delivered a tonn of spaghnum. Next time I visited he was up in the skies about all the dats and Brugs, even though none of the Brugs was blooming.
Here is a bit of what he saw *lol*
Interesting comment on our garden *lol*
and this bed ...
and the Datura area *lol* He said: I have never seen anything like it. You must have over hundreds of these.
and he became even more excited to find out that he witnessed the first Danish produced Brugmansia hybrids nearly just across the street. He was used to a few nameless hybrids that he sells every May to June. We have invited him and his DW to come over when we have most of the Brugs in bloom, because right now it would be as close as you could get to a boring experience :)
Gee Tonny, I am impressed also with your great garden all your hard work! So how much does a ton of spaghnum cost?? How long will that last you?
They look so neat in those rows and look at all that space!
Tonny . . Looks like alot of hard work to me. You have so many nice looking plants and so many beds. I can see why he as impressed.
Tonny----------if I walked into that many brugs--im pretty sure I would want your autograph lololol cheryl
Thanks Kell :) A tonn is about 57 $. This time it lasted a little over a week, but that was because I was busy with other stuff.
Susie, most of the rows are not made after a straight line *lol* I think it look a bit barren between the Brugs. We plan to make a large lawn here in the late fall and have it surrounded with perennials all the way around it and with the Brugs dug down both in the bed and in the lawn. btw. You send me seeds of Love in a puff last year or maybe the before that, right? (bad memory here) Lene sowed in the spring. Its man height now and I found out, how it must have gotten its name :D
What are the tall rose colored flowers in the photos?
Thanks for asking, because I purely forgot that I have a dear friend waiting for seeds of those :D Sometimes I put my brain funny places and then forget about where I put it. Thanks again :) Oh, yes, but these are peony poppies. They grow to about 3 foot tall and self sow each spring. Some of them has been crossed by bees to our local field poppies and the hybrids resembles the large plants, but are under 1 foot tall and only half filled.
I love the brugs---------but now I want peony poppies too:( actually if they are like other poppies, they just dont seem to do well for me--perhaps its our HIGH humidity and HIGH temps, or maybe Im just not a poppyperson?--does that make me a wantobepoppyperson?
Plays, plant them(poppies) early so they bloom before it's too hot. We sow ours in the fall, they stay little and green all winter and bloom while it's still cool in the spring.
Tonny, Love in a Puff got tall? Wow, what are you feeding it? I love those peony poppies, they are so pretty.
The combination of the datura and the poppies blooming at the same time must be awesome. I hope you will post photos when they are in full bloom, and the brugs too.
Thanks Cala---no wonder mine never did much--I sowed them in the spring.
Here it is. I could not find this thread yesterday *lol* I have posted some of the poppies here: http://davesgarden.com/t/387997/
This will look Great Tonny!