Rachel's Journal

we sow our wallflowers middle of May and transplant them in September,  :)

Lovely Viburnum, Rachel.

I will try sowing mine mid May, John & Ann. I hope I remember.

Thanks, Jacinta. It has a lovely scent too.

Lovely view Rachel

Yes, Martin. Great view - accentuated by lack of garden plants ; )

Gorgeous viburnum love the colour must look out for that one.

Aunt May is much more civilised Rachel and much taller just cut off the seed heads of sisyringchium before they can set to stop all those annoying babies :-)

To lemongrass was very bad germination Rachel,sorry for it.You have 43 orchids right now???Wow,it is big number:)How is yours oncidiums?

I'm very pleased with that Viburbum, Geraldine. I bought it half price last year and in bad shape. But it did have one floret so I got the scent and that sold it to me...

Aunt May looks great all right, Bill. Linda recommends it highly. I might try cutting off the seed heads of the annoying yellow ones. Thanks for the tip.

Liga, I put lots of lemongrass seed in the pot because I will probably do just one sowing so hopefully...

The Oncidiums are doing great. Only 2 of the ones from Jacinta seemed that they would die but then one of them sent up a tiny little pseudobulb and new growth at the last minute. I discarded the second one finally yesterday.

By the way, I have a small Berry Oda for you if you want it (I know you like small)? It flowered this year but now I have other Berry Oda in a big pot from Myrtle. I can bring it to the next swap if you want it.

Lovely colour blossom and then the scent too!

Hi Rachel, my Aunt May has not germinated yet much to my disappointment!  Love the Viburnmum.  I have considered pulling up all the annoying yellow Sisyrinchium but it does give great colour for months.  Like Bill says dead head them every now and again and you won't have some many offspring.

Is "Berry Oda "scented?

We'll see, Linda. Maybe they're slow to germinate. Meant to tell you - that little alpine phlox you gave me is flowering beautifully at the minute.

Liga, Berry Oda is supposed to be scented. But, as we saw from the Orchid Fair, my sense of smell is not the best and I couldn't smell anything from it when it was in flower.

Ok,then  i want it:))

I hope to make it to the Celbridge Rare Plant Fair on Sunday. I will bring it along : )

Ok,then maybe do you want some mimulus plants,digitalis mix,mesebryanthemum(livingstone daisy mix),heuchera sanguinea,morning glory "sunrise serenade",eragrostis spectablis grass,and i can give one of carlina acaulis,some of coriander "Lemon",levisticum officianale,campanula medium,campanula medium.v.calycanthema,veronica spicata,origanum vulgare,polemonum yezoense Purple,asclepias speciosa,monarda punctata,luchnis arkwrightii "orange zwerg"...ok,thats all for now.You just think what you would love from all this.

Liga, you are very bad. I should be out gardening and instead I am in here looking up plants from that impressive selection of yours. I would just love to try some of that Lychnis 'Orange Zwerg'. If I were to invent a plant from my head, I think it might be that - it ticks all my boxes. Lets just hope it seeds around the place as well as ordinary Lychnis does!

That sounds like a good choice Rachel, I just googled it and it looks gorgeous.

Ha,ha,bad..Now you bad,,thats all what you want?You don't want carlina acaulis?It in life look much better like in all them google pictures...Thats all,one Lychnis???

Ooh, could I also try a purple polemonum yezoense?

Ok,now it sound better:)