I like it. A lot. :)
I don’t really think words will do it justice but I will have a go… I love the way that I bought a bag of roots from the £ shop a few months ago and it grew bigger every day to be blooming in several soft pink sprays now. There’s just nothing like it, and it’s one of those spectacular blooms that allows an English country (okay, city) gardener to say “you can keep your orchids and trumpet vines”.
They’re so beautiful, and I know I’ll miss them for the year when they’re gone. ):
Sometimes I think that the less a flower looks like a flower, the more I like it…
Also, to clarify to other growers out there the nomenclature: It is not “Dicentra spectabilis” any more, but a more complicated Latin name we now have to remember.
Photos:
1: Lamprocapnos spectabilis: bleeding heart.
2: Bleeding heart chronological mosaic
3: Ornithogalum dubium
4: Drosera capensis seedlings! These make me so happy.
5: Production at work; a ****load of marigolds for an upcoming plant sale. It’s great mass pricking out experience! At the end of nursery days I always feel so dexterous and efficient.
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Lamprocapnos spectabilis (99p) Lamprocapnos spectabilis
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Comments
halhurst wrote:
Beautiful pictures. The marigolds: holy macaroni, what a lot of work! But not work, if you rejoice in it.
Posted on 03 Apr 12 (about 1 year ago)
redloon wrote:
I planted a bleeding heart behind my apartment when I lived in Boston, and loved watching it break dormancy and grow and flower in the spring! Unfortunately it’s too warm in my new climate to grow them, but at least I get to enjoy them vicariously via folia! That is a LOT of marigolds. Very cute baby sundews!
Posted on 03 Apr 12 (about 1 year ago)
Tralamander wrote:
Thank you Halhurst, pricking out is certainly not a chore!
Thanks, redloon, I hope the raise in temperature has allowed other colourful beauties to be grown in place of the bleeding heart. :)
Posted on 03 Apr 12 (about 1 year ago)
orientallily wrote:
I love bleeding heart, too. Mine won’t be blooming until mid to late May but I can’t wait until they do. I love the white varieties and how thier blossoms sparkle amongst their leaves when grown in dappled shade.
Posted on 04 Apr 12 (about 1 year ago)
redloon wrote:
@Tralamander: Yes, there’s definitely another side to that coin! Banana trees, Colocasia, Canna lilies, and many, many others.
Posted on 04 Apr 12 (about 1 year ago)
Tralamander wrote:
orientallily: I… worry that the white variety is not bright and garish (and vulgar?) enough for me, but now I must give it a go!
redloon: Glad to hear it! Do your bananas die down completely over winter like ours do? Do you have to lift your Canna lilies?
Posted on 04 Apr 12 (about 1 year ago)
redloon wrote:
@Tralamander: Yes, banana trees around here die down to the ground every winter, but then grow very quickly from their roots every spring. The Canna lilies (and Colocasia) winter over just fine in the ground as well.
Posted on 05 Apr 12 (about 1 year ago)
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