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July 2010
I am not quite sure
where June went but it shot by in a haze of packaging and unpacking cars
and lorries with plants for shows and gardens open! It was great to be
out meeting old friends and new customers. We were delighted to receive
gold medals for our displays at both the Suffolk and Royal Norfolk
Shows. It is a chance to show people what the nursery can do with very
few flowers but lots of leaf colour and seedheads. One viewer was heard
to tutt and say 'They got a gold, thought it was a Horticultural Show,
not a flower in sight'. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry!
But as people who know
this nursery will understand flowers do not last, leaf colour does and
in the strong temperatues of the afternoon sun the point is proved as
flowers are going over very quickly in this heat.
Included in this set of
pictures for this month are Phlomis cashmeriana a delightful grey leaved
shrub sporting pale pink flowers (so often grey leaved shrubs have
horrible yellow flowers!)
Physocarpus opulifolius
'Diabolo' is stunning this year covered in small clusters of pale creamy
white flowers earlier in the season, turning to scarlet red berries
shining out against the dark leaves of the shrub.
All the grasses are
coming into their own now stipa calamagrostis featured in a picture.
Looking good now and continuing through the next couple of months as it
is a repeat flowerer.
A combination such as
Pennisetum 'Karley Rose'and Dierama Guinevere or (Angels Fishing
Rods as some people know it) works very well with the breeze
blowing through them.
Plant of the month is
Lotus hirsutus
A delightful shrub with
soft grey foliage, creamy white flowers that turn into chocolate
coloured coco bean seeds. Stunning!
Thanks to all the
customers who have commented on the website. It was designed to be easy
to follow and a pleasure to look at, not too much razz but subtle as one
customer commented.
For those who
read the winter diary you will be pleased to hear that little robin
survived the winter on many nibbles of cheese, much to the disgust of
Pepper the resident cat (Tiger to some of our customers!) Little Robin
now comes to the shake of the cheese bag! and sings sweetly for his
(her) supper! Being a a greedy chap he is now feeding two families
and delights the customers by flying over their heads into the potting
shed for cheese.
Updated
Robin raised two families
successfully looked very ragged for a while and has now spurned our
cheese and gone off to eat all our bugs hopefully!"
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Lotus hirsutus, Cotinus
coggygria 'Grace'
Phlomis cashmeriana
Stipa calamagrostis ,
Abelia Kaleidoscope
Geranium 'Dusky Rose'
Physocarpus opulifolius
'Diabolo'
Dierama grandiflorum
'Guinevere'
Pennisetum orientale 'Karley
Rose'
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