I am so excited - the boxes of bulbs have started arriving, marking the end of the fresh flower season and the time to prepare for next year. Tulips can wait a while, but narcissi need to get into the soil as soon as possible. I don't grow many narcissi - large scale bulb growers harvest their narcissi flowers and sell them below cost, so people have become used to the idea that they should be cheap flowers. The two narcissi that I do grow are Narcissi Geranium - a scented tazzetta with an 8 day vase life and great resistance to bad weather - and Pheasant's Eye Narcissi - late blooming, pure white with an elegant deep orange trumpet.
So today I have been pulling out the spent sunflower haulms - some of the stems were 8 " across - beefing up the soil a bit with some horse manure - and then putting in the narcissi to line the main path. Mice and deer are meant to dislike narcissi bulbs as they are poisonous - perhaps a stout line of them at the edge of the raised beds will protect the tulips further back.
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Hiding your Spotlight under a Bushell.
After a day of hard work
in a sunny garden
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- Jane
- Balfron Station, Stirlingshire, United Kingdom
- In 2000 I chucked in my job as an art gallery curator and retrained in horticulture while looking for a job outside. I am now building a business based around my twin passions - plants and fabrics - and rooted firmly in the beautiful area where I live. In the summer I grow cut flowers and herbs, in the winter I sew things from wonderful textiles. Both are sold from a van in my drive and at farmers markets. I am based near to Drymen in the Loch Lomond National Park in Scotland. I live with Euan, our two daughters Zoe and Katie, 3 cats, 1 dog, 7 chickens, 3 ducks and a rabbit.
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I put some Iris, two Amaryllis, a Tulip and some strawberries in the same big pot. I worked the bed that I took them out of and made it a bed of strawberries. I am surprised at how well the plants are doing.
The pot I put them in has excellent drainage the first three or four inches and below that it does not drain. I call this pot system Swamp Pots and I rigged them to raise hibiscus without raising mosquitoes. Information on the chaindropz Swamp pot System is Free.
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