Started planting next door

[watervole]

No toothache today! No idea why, but I'm not complaining.

Took advantage of feeling normal to cycle down to the local garden centre and buy various perennials and some bulbs. (Iris, lavender, crocuses, lamb's ears, aubretia and campanula)

Planted them all up and then the rain watered them in for me. Looks good and I'll have some more to add in a day or two when plants I mail-ordered arrive. I'm putting in a fair number of British native plants like Jacob's Ladder, Monkshood and flax. And bluebells, of course. English, NOT Spanish.

Feeling happy!

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[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Much Yay!

[twinfair.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear about the toothach yesterday.

Which mail order company do you buy plants from? Just out of interest as I would like to compare it to the one I sometimes use.

[watervole.livejournal.com]

Naturescape. They have a web site. They are not perfect - their list includes several plants that are not actually British natives - but they do allow me to get a lot of plants that are.

Do you know of any other good sources for native flowers? Naturescape are good in some regards, but they rarely tell you the best soil type - I have to cross-check that on the BBC gardening web site which is very informative.

[(Anonymous)]

No sorry I don't. That is why I was asking as I want more native flowers. I use the BBC site as well. It is great.

[watervole.livejournal.com]

http://www.naturescape.co.uk/

I choose plants there and then double check with Wikipedia to be sure they're native. (they include some like evening primrose that have been grown here a long time and have escaped into the wild. As far as I'm concerned, it's still an American plant)