Very pretty, But to be honest,I notice you have some of jim's favourites growing in front of it , He called everything a dandelion or Tulip, not the best horticulturist .I could not let him to close to flowers in the garden he was most likely to dig them up and leave the weeds as he didn't know the difference Helene
Frank, Does it spread like normal mint,and can you use it on the spuds and peas,and make mint sauce with it?My English mint will flower if I let it,but I snip the buds off beforehand! ------- Don
Don , I first came across it when the schoß park here in Schl-Neuhaus hosted the Landes Garden show in the early '90s my son got the contract to supply & plant the Knot gardens with them it is a culinary herb that had over the years gone out of fashion. it is still used in the Italian cooking particular in the Tuscany. the flavour is very intense perhaps too strong for mint sauce,but maybe in moderation with pots & peas I'll get the chef to try .and no it doesn't spread its like a sub shrub I rather suspect that its best used to encourage pollinators into the garden.today is a sunny day and after 3 weeks of rain the bees seem to be hungry,and the head gardener was out in the flower beds so the weeds are gone As a point of interest that bed in my garden where they grow was until 4 years ago farm land that had not been touched in 8 years the only thing I did was to cut the vegetation then plant in the grass some shrubs and the mulch it with chipped tree waste and bark 3" deep twice a year in the growing season a monthly dressing of NPK fertilizer and last Autumn it was a lovely woodland soil so we could plant the flowers Frank.
At last a bit of sun again,the world warming up again,and the tomatoes are going red.Have been spraying my Rhodo's with "rose clear"and seem to have got rid of the bug that was making the buds go brown! -------- Don
Oh dear Don,you've fallen for it have you.the disease that kill off your rhododendron buds a is a fungicidal condition called "Bud blast ", the little bugs as you refer to them are "Leaf hoppers" they are little green insects with red stripes on their wings, you will find them all over your garden they do no harm there is absolutely NO EVIDENCE to prove that they do, if they did then they must surely damage other plants ,as they populate all plants. Bud blast was particularly bad this spring because of the bad winter we had,fortunately its only a small selected species or breeds that have one parent from that sort ."Cunningham's white" is one. I have a list if you want, what you need to do is spray with a Fungicide just after flowering & again sept/oct do you remember in the 60 s/70s when the omorica spruce was mode in Germany, how everybody #saw their fur trees dying and sprayed them with with chemicals because they were told that it was the sitca mite ? after they had killed off all the useful bugs and bacteria in the soil they were told that it was acid rain that was to blame. the chemical company's had made a fortune in the meantime . & I was able to tell them I TOLD YOU SO !! and so is it with the so called "Zicaden in germany. frank
Frank, Thanks for the advice,will try Fungicide in October and again after flowering!But the sitcqa bug got one of my Nordmanntanne and I saw the bugs to prove it! -------- Don
Very pretty, But to be honest,I notice you have some of jim's favourites growing in front of it , He called everything a dandelion or Tulip, not the best horticulturist .I could not let him to close to flowers in the garden he was most likely to dig them up and leave the weeds as he didn't know the difference Helene
ReplyDeleteFrank,
ReplyDeleteDoes it spread like normal mint,and can you use it on the spuds and peas,and make mint sauce with it?My English mint will flower if I let it,but I snip the buds off beforehand!
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Don
Don ,
ReplyDeleteI first came across it when the schoß park here in Schl-Neuhaus hosted the Landes Garden show
in the early '90s my son got the contract to supply & plant the Knot gardens with them it is a culinary herb that had over the years gone out of fashion. it is still used in the Italian cooking particular in the Tuscany. the flavour is very intense perhaps too strong for mint sauce,but maybe
in moderation with pots & peas I'll get the chef to try .and no it doesn't spread its like a sub shrub
I rather suspect that its best used to encourage pollinators into the garden.today is a sunny day
and after 3 weeks of rain the bees seem to be hungry,and the head gardener was out in the flower beds so the weeds are gone
As a point of interest that bed in my garden where they grow was until 4 years ago farm land that had not been touched in 8 years the only thing I did was to cut the vegetation then plant in the grass some shrubs and the mulch it with chipped tree waste and bark 3" deep twice a year in the growing season a monthly dressing of NPK fertilizer and last Autumn it was a lovely woodland soil so we could plant the flowers
Frank.
Helene,
ReplyDeleteyou forgot one flower that he must have known, The thistle ( Flower of Scotland )
Frank
At last a bit of sun again,the world warming up again,and the tomatoes are going red.Have been spraying my Rhodo's with "rose clear"and seem to have got rid of the bug that was making the buds go brown!
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Don
Oh dear Don,you've fallen for it have you.the disease that kill off your rhododendron buds a is
ReplyDeletea fungicidal condition called "Bud blast ", the little bugs as you refer to them are "Leaf hoppers"
they are little green insects with red stripes on their wings, you will find them all over your garden they do no harm there is absolutely NO EVIDENCE to prove that they do, if they did then they must surely damage other plants ,as they populate all plants.
Bud blast was particularly bad this spring because of the bad winter we had,fortunately its only a small selected species or breeds that have one parent from that sort ."Cunningham's white" is
one. I have a list if you want, what you need to do is spray with a Fungicide just after flowering
& again sept/oct
do you remember in the 60 s/70s when the omorica spruce was mode in Germany, how everybody
#saw their fur trees dying and sprayed them with with chemicals because they were told that it was the sitca mite ? after they had killed off all the useful bugs and bacteria in the soil they were told that it was acid rain that was to blame. the chemical company's had made a fortune in the meantime . & I was able to tell them I TOLD YOU SO !! and so is it with the so called "Zicaden
in germany. frank
Frank,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the advice,will try Fungicide in October and again after flowering!But the sitcqa bug got one of my Nordmanntanne and I saw the bugs to prove it!
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Don