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| Red Mohican flower heads, I do love it when a plant name actually matches its' appearance |
My purse was crying but my bags were groaning. For the sake of length Im going to split this into two parts: plants, and things that will become plants. Lets start with things that will become plants shall we?
Aquilegia ‘Pom-poms’- It took
me about twelve seconds to decide to buy these seeds, and yet I hate
Aquilegia. They are just so
damn virile. I have spent
much of the last two years trying to halt the spread across the garden by the
last batch the mother bought. Yet
when I saw these featured on Gardeners World a few months ago I knew in my
heart any attempt to resist their frilly charms would be futile. Luckily they grow very well in the
dark spot in the garden where everything else objects to being put.
Sweet Peas- I was very
disappointed at the sweet pea fair on offer this year, I could only find one
seller: Eagle Sweet Peas, which is perfectly fine but I was hoping to try
something new. Although
tempting to buy a great big variety pack full of varieties I don’t want, I
decided to go expensive and be selective, choosing just two varieties:
Leominster Boy which is a salmon orange, and Charlies Angel; a pretty pale
blue. I plan to buy more
online at some point and will probably end up with a terrible combination of
colours as I put them together myself. Oh
well.
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| The beautifully coloured 'Indian Summer' graduating from red to light purple at the bottom. The Gladiolus look here much how I felt at the time: droopy |
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| Judging by the very skewed nature of this photo I was on the verge of passing out from either heat or the thrill of the purchase, but it does show four of the varieties I bought: Aftershock- a very vivid pink and white, Chit Chat- splodges of a very blue pink on white, Magma- an unsurprisingly bright red and Green Star- odd I know but it works for me |
Gladiolus- Oh gladiolus. I went a bit overboard here but in my
defence they are my favourite cut flower. Despite having still to get a single
flower on the ones I bought this year, the wrong soil and nowhere to plant
them, I went and bought forty bulbs. Yes
forty, because apparently im planning on opening a fresh flower shop next year
and will need an endless supply. Thing
is I saw ‘Indian Summer’ in the display, knew I wouldn’t be leaving without any
and there was an offer on for forty bulbs so just thought screw it; lets just
buy the whole stand. So buy
the whole stand I did. I
didn’t buy forty Indian Summer bulbs because that really would have been
overkill, instead plumping for a mix of varieties with Indian Summer,
Aftershock, Chit Chat, Magma, Green Star and Black Star. In effect all I have
really bought is a hell of a lot of work as I will have to dig up most of the
lawn and then spend three weeks digging trenches.
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| Three Red Mohican Bulbs, looking remarkably like rather crusty garlic gloves |
Alliums- As I have mentioned on here before,
round things appeal greatly to me, round things suspended high up on sticks
even more. Therefore I am a
great lover of an Allium. I
set out to increase their numbers in my garden but had no particular variety in
mind. Luckily the stands
are comparable to a pick and mix sweet stand. It does annoy me when they show bulbs
on the stands that they are not actually selling, such as ‘ping pong’ which I
immediately wanted but was denied. Not
so the case with Red Mohican which are as the name suggests red and do actually
have little hair dos, like a thousand pins sticking upright out of a
cushion. It was love at
first sight. Less so for
the ‘Rosenbachianum’ and ‘White Giant’ Bulbs that snuck in during that rather
spendy moment when I was ordering a thousand gladiolus bulbs. On top of forty another six didn’t
seem like much of a stretch. Thankfully
the lady who sold them to me wrote on the packets what they were otherwise I
would just have two bags of rather large unidentifiable garlic.
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| Three 'White Giant' bulbs, I know this because the bulbs are huge, and luckily the bag is labelled |
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