Yay for seed sowing goodness. It is good to see that time of year is coming on. I do hope you get better luck with the blue sausage plants than I did. I got very poor germination, I'm afraid to report, so I wish you far better luck and much better success than like wot I had got. Looking forward to hearing about the mystery tomatoes though, mystery plants can sometimes be the best plants, so yay for seed sowing goodiness!
I really must get some tuits to put in some sunflowers for the birds, and some butterfly-attracting flowers (on the other side of the garden from the bird-feeders!).
I hope you manage to grow some nice things for your win=ged visitors!
We usually get a lot of bees and butterflies on the buddleia out front. WE have some Ox-eye daisy plants coming on in the green house for later in the season too, which should be nice for the bees :)
We usually get a lot of bees and butterflies on the buddleia out front.
I was contemplating putting in a buddleia for the butterflies, but had heard that they can run riot and spread all over the place. If they can be kept under control, though, I'd like to have one.
WE have some Ox-eye daisy plants coming on in the green house for later in the season too, which should be nice for the bees :)
Our bees normally head straight for the rosemary or marjoram flowers, but it'd be good to put something else in as an alternative source of nectar for them. I think a trip to a nearby garden centre may be indicated.
If they can be kept under control, though, I'd like to have one.
I think it depends n the variety to an extent - the wild ones are definitely a bit rampant! :)
The one outside our house gets pretty big, but the trick is to prune it back *hard* ( by which I mean about a foot or so from the ground, if possible) every year, either in March or May.
We have a couple of "dwarf" buddleia in the back garden, which are just getting established and will likely want their first proper prune this year.
the main thing for bee flower shopping is to avoid "double" flowers, where it's harder for them to get at the pollen. Native stuff is always good, too.
The bees on my allotment love the comfrey flowers (but don't plant that unless you're happy to have it forever, the thing has a 15ft tap root! :)) and the globe artichokes that flower when I fail to pick them in time :)
Thank you Maybe this will be the year I manage to grow some decent cauliflowers at last :)
Which reminds me, I have some cash I was given for allotment stuff - time to place the order for some cloches to keep the cabbage whites off the brassicas! :)
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Fingers crossed for the blue snausages - I hope I shall have good news to report in a while!
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I really must get some tuits to put in some sunflowers for the birds, and some butterfly-attracting flowers (on the other side of the garden from the bird-feeders!).
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I hope you manage to grow some nice things for your win=ged visitors!
We usually get a lot of bees and butterflies on the buddleia out front. WE have some Ox-eye daisy plants coming on in the green house for later in the season too, which should be nice for the bees :)
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I was contemplating putting in a buddleia for the butterflies, but had heard that they can run riot and spread all over the place. If they can be kept under control, though, I'd like to have one.
WE have some Ox-eye daisy plants coming on in the green house for later in the season too, which should be nice for the bees :)
Our bees normally head straight for the rosemary or marjoram flowers, but it'd be good to put something else in as an alternative source of nectar for them. I think a trip to a nearby garden centre may be indicated.
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I think it depends n the variety to an extent - the wild ones are
definitely a bit rampant! :)
The one outside our house gets pretty big, but the trick is to prune it
back *hard* ( by which I mean about a foot or so from the ground, if
possible) every year, either in March or May.
We have a couple of "dwarf" buddleia in the back garden, which are just
getting established and will likely want their first proper prune this
year.
the main thing for bee flower shopping is to avoid "double" flowers,
where it's harder for them to get at the pollen. Native stuff is always
good, too.
The bees on my allotment love the comfrey flowers (but don't plant that
unless you're happy to have it forever, the thing has a 15ft tap root!
:)) and the globe artichokes that flower when I fail to pick them in time
:)
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Which reminds me, I have some cash I was given for allotment stuff - time to place the order for some cloches to keep the cabbage whites off the brassicas! :)
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