Topic: Who thinks heather is boring?

[Heldi]

See it in a new light.

[wardy]

I thought I didn't like heather but our in bloom group voted to have a heather roundabout and we all pitched in to make it using a design one of our members had put together.  It looks fab.  Well it did til a car ran over it and dragged up the membrane and about 150 plants with it  >:(   We've replanted it though and it looks great.  I'll have to get a photo and post it.  Very proud of it as we are all amateurs  :)

[Palustris]

I like Heather. Our Heather garden looks a treat all through Winter as we chose winter flowering types for it.

[Gardengirl]

You certainly know how to take a good photo Heldi - absolutely beautiful :)  As you say, I am seeing heather in a completely new light now :)

Pat

[Marianne]

How very beautiful Heldi!!!

Gorgeous rich colour !  I think heathers need peat in order to grow well. 
 :D

[simon404]

 :) Good for you Heldi  :)

[Heldi]

Hi !

I took this pic because this particular heather sits in a little pot lighting up a very gloomy corner. It is a little treasure.  I have about six heathers in my front garden and I grow fonder of them every year as they set the garden alight with colour when little else is happening. Pinks,purples,white and a little number with orangey gold foliage.

I'm looking forward to seeing the pic of your roundabout Wardy.

My heather in a pot sits in ericaceous soil but the ones out front sit in a clay soil which I've enriched with stacks of horse manure.

Heathers are fab,you've just got to look at them,I mean really look,then you will know.

[GREENWIZARD]

i use to have lots of heathers in the front garden but i dug them all up years ago (MrGW not too pleased),i'm feeling rather guilty now :(

[kitty]

ooo-i 'm seeing them in a new light! :D
thanks for that-i may give them a go and make a little feature of them-my mother put me off them by planting her entire garden in them'to dsave work'
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they
did
look
nice...........
mind you-this was the woman who said'o,the lake district-i findit highly over-rated...'
i mean......



i dont take after her at all.

[dibberxxx]

what a really good picture colour is great

[Heldi]

Thanks for the compliments  ;D  I'm just lucky enough to have a good camera and a childish curiosity !

[MagpieDi]

Stunning pic Heldi.  Just love the colour !

[Heldi]

It is a great colour isn't it,particularly as its against a darker green foliage. It makes it almost shocking in its gloomy corner of my deck.

I was very taken with a garden I saw recently in a dirty traffic infested street,it was aglow with a patchwork of heathers and really brightened the spirits.