Topic: Can't help myself...

[aquilegia]

Lottie - send me your lady's mantel when you get rid of it and I'll send you something pink! I love LM, am trying to grow it from seed, but it doesn't seem happy.

[undercarriage plan]

You're more than welcome!! pm me with your address and I'll attempt to send it!! Not done this before so if you end up with box of wet compost and a really ******* plant......   :o  :o  :o Lottie

[Doris_Pinks]

I can't get rid of it! It grows everywhere it isn't supposed to......luckily I love green flowers ;D  ;D   Well some of them! ;)

[Muddy_Boots]

Lady's Mantle - Alchemilla Mollis - get rid of it?  How could you?

Have you ever noticed how when it rains or when you water, how beautiful the captured water sits in the leaf?  Also, it's always there if anything else lets you down.

Architecturally, as they say, it also provides interesting shape.  However, if you like the shape but not the boring green, grow a geum or a potentilla!  They are lovely and flower prolifically in all kinds of colours, not only pink!  Have a purple Heurchera - insignificant flowers - but every bee I've seen manages to get inside their tiny flowers - lovely colour all the year round and gives a winter garden a lift.

Perhaps it might help to think of green as a framework for your flowers.  As was mentioned, even green hellibores have their own merit!

Best of luck and let us know what happens in your garden, please.

[undercarriage plan]

In my garden? At the minute looking really lush, til I took a closer look and reallized the lushness was due to excess weeds!! So in my garden at the minute, furious weeding is taking place!  Lottie  ;D  ;D  ;D

[Robert_Brenchley]

Don't worry, you're not the only one. another week to ten days should see off the GCSE marking, then I'll be weeding like mad whenever the opportunity occurs. I just haven't had a chance the last few weeks. Meanwhile the weeds are making hay while the sun shines. You can almost see them growing.

[undercarriage plan]

I've been pulling and weeding and squishing and cutting and pruning for at least 20 mins.........!! Need a sit down and big glass of wine!!!!!  ;) Lottie

[fbgrifter]

I grow loads of green flowered plants, i can't get enough of them.  i initially grew them solely for flower arranging, and couldn't really see the point of them.  but when you see how they spice up oranges and purples and yellows, i can't beleive i didn't used to like them.  and what works in a vase, works in the garden.  green flowers also add form and contrast, the green is not confined to leaf shapes!  i even pick chinese lanterns before they turn orange!

[undercarriage plan]

I know you're right!! Just can't see it myself.  My mum is a flower aranger, and would give up a child (gulp!) for a decent bit of Spurge!!!! Lottie  ;D ;D ;D

[Val]

Everyone will be handing their kids over now, a child for a plant?...wow, makes sense to me.

[undercarriage plan]

Just think how quiet winter would be!!! But (and don't tell them!) I would miss the little blighters!!
And realized something else!! I love plants for their foliage, have lots of ferns, hostas, a Gunnera, bamboo.  So, I do love green, it's just the flower thing  ??? ??? Lottie   ;D

[fbgrifter]

think of the flowers as really unusual leaves

[undercarriage plan]

Nope! They're definitely flowers!! Tried looking at them from the corner of my eye, or pretending they're not there, then having a quick, crafty look....... still green flowers!! Nice leaves though!!!  ;D  ;D  ;D Lottie