Interesting list of what's happy and what's not. I saw stonking wild fennel in New Zealand this year. Intend to give it a go here in the north. Aquilegia is happy, also thyme, but Rosemary regularly gets blasted by our -10 to -15 frosts most winters. I lost most of the plant I brought up from Edinburfh, took cuttings from the few tiny, unscathed shoots, now have 2 big plants but which had a frost highway cut through them this winter. Enough remains to be going on with.
oh blimey, I guess if you can protect a few plants, you'll have seeds and seedlings forever more - I'm doing that using chicken wire domes for a few wildflowers this year, just to get the population established
Those photo are great. I'm enlarging them to get a good look at everything. Did you do all the rock scaping yourself?
No I have designed dry stone walls like this but these are an old part of our house
I loved the mixture of plants as they look much more natural and colourful, as well as attracting insects of course, don’t change a thing.
Thanks Jillian
Interesting list of what's happy and what's not. I saw stonking wild fennel in New Zealand this year. Intend to give it a go here in the north. Aquilegia is happy, also thyme, but Rosemary regularly gets blasted by our -10 to -15 frosts most winters. I lost most of the plant I brought up from Edinburfh, took cuttings from the few tiny, unscathed shoots, now have 2 big plants but which had a frost highway cut through them this winter. Enough remains to be going on with.
Good to have the salvia recommendations.
Wish I could get aquilegia established here - the rabbits eat it before it really gets a hold
oh blimey, I guess if you can protect a few plants, you'll have seeds and seedlings forever more - I'm doing that using chicken wire domes for a few wildflowers this year, just to get the population established