As Plocket hasn't yet seen the bed I just created in her honour, here are a couple of pics of it... from the front door... (must darken the manhole cover - didn't realise it stood out that much when there's no car there!)Â I hope the clems will be a bit more impressive next year...
(http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a160/MargiMagpie/Grotsetc061.jpg)
The item in front of the clems on this occasion is a Hobbit Seedling I produced myself...
(http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a160/MargiMagpie/Grotsetc059.jpg)
I'm looking for suggestions for what to fill this pot with...
(http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a160/MargiMagpie/Grotsetc067.jpg)
and finally, I told someone, somewhere I'd post a picture of the Psychiatrist in his blue room...
(http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a160/MargiMagpie/Grotsetc065.jpg)
So, suggestions for the blue pot, please?
Margi x
Margi. Wow to have a bed created especially for someone!!!! I bet Plocket will be walking around with a big smile. The whole thing looks very effective and I am sure this time next year you will post pics of the clems again.. Lovely Lorna.
Hi Lovely Lorna!
Thanks for your comments - I just wish I'd remembered to resize the pics like Lord Steve told me to! Stupid of me, but it was rather late at night...
I do hope Plocket likes it too...
Good to hear from you,
Margi x
Hi again Margi. I forgot to mention that the Hobbit Seedling is one of the best specimens I have seen,, I am sure credit must be given to a helper to produce . (OOPS sorry my sense of humour) Best wishes Lorna.
I did respond to you question about the pot on the beeb, but seeing it made me think that a variegated Felicia would look nice in it if you didn't mind something lowish. The blue flowers would be perfect & mine stays out all year. Nice new bed by the way.
Thanks Beejay - can't picture it, but will look it up right away! Thanks also for comment about the bed... still no response from Plocket - I hope her computer isn't on the blink again - or worse still she might have seen it and hate it! Paranoid, moi?
Margi x
Hi Margi!! Great pics. Well done! I will try to think of something for the pot - it is such a feature it needs a special plant in it!
Margi, it's felicia amelloides probably variegata or some such if that helps.
Hi Margi, you know you said there must be something that is lovely & pink ... ? Well, I can't help noticing you have a pink seedling in your garden - hope you think she's lovely (& have no plans to dye her purple ;)).
I love the blue pot but I can't think of anything you could put in it which is big enough for a feature but small enough not to outgrow the pot (apart from not-terribly-serious suggestion on BBC board - though maybe a more interesting herb, like fennel or a white bergamot, might work?) - anyway, hope you manage to find something - & to get rid of the ants.
Hi Margi!! ok, just ahd some really random ideas about everything!
you could improve your clem bed by adding...Lights!!! rock lights?? they look great and if you buy the low voltage ones you can install them yourself, there not difficult!
for the pot, i still say maybe a cordyline, or maybe a bush fuschia?? i now i ahve seen ones with blue insides and purple outsides that would look :P
OR
just to go right off the trail how about a little water feature?? empty the pot, fill 3/4 the way with water and just get a bog stabdard pump that will throw up the water in a fountain kind of way!!!
Margi your photos are wonderful. I am honoured that you have a Plocket Bed - I just can't explain how honoured! As Lorna says I am grinning!!! The trellis look fantastic and the whole look is beautiful. I'm having a think (still) about the pot by the way! Seedling looks divine and I'm so pleased that you are now posting pictures.
Mwah mwah! Px
Hi All
Plocket - I'm SO glad you like it - you can probably imagine better than me how it will look next year or the year after. But why is my Integrifolia looking awful? The stems are falling over and leaves going brown. Checked everything that went in there for vine weevil before it went in, have maybe just overwatered in view of the hot weather... Just have to hope it 'does' next year. BTW, the Beauty of Worcester has a 12" sturdy looking shoot which I've just tied into the passionflower - fingers still crossed!
Beejay - had a look at the felicia thanks. Gorgeous plant which I will HAVE TO HAVE now I've seen it, but not necesarily for that pot - have come to the conclusion I want something pretty architectural rather than something that pretty. Rest assured, however, that I will be getting some felicia...! Climate change is very unfortunate, but might eventually mean I can have a melianthus in there!!!
Adam - you're off the wall! Still like the idea of a cordyline/phormium-type thing, but I might now have to make it into a water feature!!! I originally bought it with that in mind, but was thinking I'd dig a reservoir and have water cascading down the sides of the pot, and cobbles and the whole shooting match, but then it all felt a bit like too much work for that one thing at the risk of neglecting everything else. But now you suggest a 'contained' one, that's a REALLY, REALLY GOOD IDEA! (And it might sort the ants problem out too!!!!! Thanks, hon.
Juliet - you're a cutie, never change! She truly is a pink thing I treasure!!! I promise I won't try to dip her in Dylon...
Lord Steve - for boosting my self confidence, and teaching me how to post pics on A4A, I'm truly grateful!
Anyone I've forgotten I'm very sorry, but I'm at the bottom of a glass of whisky and need to go to bed!
Thanks for all the feedback, and all the positive things you've said.
Margi x
Hi Margi. glad you like the idea.
PS - Lord Steve is the tru pro at teaching us how to post piccies, he did the same with me *stands and applauses*
I love that pot Margi, just the shade I thought it would be. It's definately a something arcitectural and spikey pot or as Adam suggests, good for a water feature. If you go for something spikey, it has to be purple, the shade of blue that your pot is would really set it off. Although I think variegated would look good too.
Really like your Plocket bed too and it would be lovely to see it in a few years time when it has all matured.
Hi Margi :D
What wonderful work you have done there ! And once it has all established, it will look even more stunning ! thanks too for sharing other little creature of your garden like the hobbit, beautiful blue vase and even more beautiful little girl !
Well done!
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