Allotments 4 All
Produce => Non Edible Plants => Topic started by: davee65uk on August 09, 2015, 20:25:44
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After watching "The Allotment Challenge" on TV, I have grown some flowers for cutting and am very pleased with the results. I have Rubekia, multi head Sunflowers and Sweet Peas. Can anyone suggest anything else?
They will have to be annuals to fit in with crop rotations and I don't want anything from the Brassica family as that plot is always full of produce.
Thank you.
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How about clary sage (Salvia viridis aka Salvia horminium)
Annual aster
cornflower
Gypsophila
Love in the Mist
Statice
Cosmos
or even Lavatera :sunny:
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Have you seen how crazy bees go over cerinthe? I have a few plants this year and the flowers are beautiful and work well as cut flowers too.
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All varieties of Calendula are beautiful, particularly Indian Prince.
Zinneas look good mixed in with other flowers, a bit lonely on their own.
Dahlias are my latest favourites, I grow them from seed and have had brilliant results, you can save your favourites.
Borage, white and blue varieties are also easy to grow from seed and loved by bees..
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I grow Chrysants, Dahlias and Gladioli
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I mostly have perennials - you could grow them in pots and move them around as you planted new areas - but the one annual I have is pot marigold. Just collect some seeds, keep them cool and dry, and plant them in the spring.
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Thanks for all the great suggestions. I'll look them up when the seed catalogues come.
If I can add a supplementary? The last comment mentioned growing in pots, I am also going to start a small container garden.
At the moment I have mint, lemon balm, blueberries and the Butterfly Bush (can't remember the name) in large pots. These are for two small areas near my greenhouse.
I would welcome any suggestions for flowering plants or veg. for containers. These could be moved into a small greenhouse over Winter.
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I would keep the mint, butterfly bush and lemon balm in pots, they are thuggish and will spread/ grow enormously if you let them loose!
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Lemon balm seeded all over my garden, so watch for excape attempts. Horseradish is another to keep banged up if you ever grow it. Apart from that, I haven't experimented much with veg in pots until this year. TPS potatoes are doing well in them, and I also have a cardoon in a big pot, for lack of anywhere to put it. It won't grow very far that way, though!
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Here are a few pics from my flower bed at the lottie taken this evening...
http://s93.photobucket.com/user/dlp133/media/Mobile%20Uploads/photo%204-2.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0
http://s93.photobucket.com/user/dlp133/media/Mobile%20Uploads/photo%203-2.jpg.html?sort=3&o=1
http://s93.photobucket.com/user/dlp133/media/Mobile%20Uploads/photo%202-2.jpg.html?sort=3&o=2
http://s93.photobucket.com/user/dlp133/media/Mobile%20Uploads/photo%203-3.jpg.html?sort=3&o=4
http://s93.photobucket.com/user/dlp133/media/Mobile%20Uploads/photo%201-2.jpg.html?sort=3&o=3
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here is some pics of my cut flower bed might give you some ideas
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They look great, I love the mixture you have there, do I see foxgloves and dahlias? Are the gloves really late or the dahlias early?
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They look great, I love the mixture you have there, do I see foxgloves and dahlias? Are the gloves really late or the dahlias early?
the pics were taken this morning i planted foxgloves this year so they wont be flowering untill next year think you can see some glads they are just about to finish thanks for the complement
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Some of the dwarf sunflowers on gardener's World last week looked lovely- at Parham House:
http://www.parhaminsussex.co.uk/blog-news/ (http://www.parhaminsussex.co.uk/blog-news/)
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This was how I used to grow my chrysanthemums on my allotment
(http://www.thegardenersalmanac.co.uk/Data/Chrysanthemum/Chrys%20pics/06-Chrysanthemums.jpg)