07-23-2014, 04:02 AM
I think I must just be fortunate in regards of the climate that I get for stuff like poppies and lupins. I live in the far north of Scotland so there's no shortage of rain and I suppose the extra light that we get must be a factor also. The extra light certainly helps me and my tendency to still be working in the garden round about midnight in the summer, although I'm sure it causes the neighbours some bemusement.
You are right about the mint as well, it did seem to act in a very similar way to the strawberries but I managed to get the mint into different forms of high security segregation before it became too much of an issue. I also did the same with the Ivy that I've got because I was warned how bad it can be, some guy had it and it grow right through the walls of the house and was coming through all the electricity sockets.
Thanks for the tip on the Oak-leaf Hydrangea, I have never heard of it before. I do sort of like normal Hydrangeas but not enough to go out of my way to get one but the Oak-leaf Hydrangea seems to have a more majestic presence about it from the pictures I've just looked at, although I don't know how easy they are to get over in this country, they appear to be native to America. I wonder if those Oak-leaf Hydrangeas have flowers whose colour depends on if the soil is acid or alkali like the normal Hydrangea, it's just like litmus paper... or litmus paper is just like it, I should say.
"Trees were here 300 million years before us.", as I once said to my neighbour after listening to him drone on about how "trees were for forests and concrete was for the city", he gives me a wide berth most of the time now.
You are right about the mint as well, it did seem to act in a very similar way to the strawberries but I managed to get the mint into different forms of high security segregation before it became too much of an issue. I also did the same with the Ivy that I've got because I was warned how bad it can be, some guy had it and it grow right through the walls of the house and was coming through all the electricity sockets.
Thanks for the tip on the Oak-leaf Hydrangea, I have never heard of it before. I do sort of like normal Hydrangeas but not enough to go out of my way to get one but the Oak-leaf Hydrangea seems to have a more majestic presence about it from the pictures I've just looked at, although I don't know how easy they are to get over in this country, they appear to be native to America. I wonder if those Oak-leaf Hydrangeas have flowers whose colour depends on if the soil is acid or alkali like the normal Hydrangea, it's just like litmus paper... or litmus paper is just like it, I should say.
"Trees were here 300 million years before us.", as I once said to my neighbour after listening to him drone on about how "trees were for forests and concrete was for the city", he gives me a wide berth most of the time now.
wae aye man ye radgie