At last signs of Spring with crocus and iris reticulata flowering along with the first narcissus. This week I am back at Wolvercote Community Market with a small range of cheerful bulbs in pots and hardy perennials ready to plant. If you would like me to put anything aside for you to pick up at the market, please email:
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Miniature Narcissi in pots
The bulbs are at various stages with Jetfire just starting to open and Tete a Tete following close behind; Minnow and Jack Snipe are later to bloom and will flower in a few weeks. All are lovely and delicate to look at, but extremely hardy. They are a great investment as they will multiply year after year. They have been grown in a mixture of terracotta and plastic pots. All are ready to be planted into the garden or larger containers or left where they are until they have finished flowering. All my bulbs are planted in peat free compost.
Jetfire, 13 cms pots with 5 to 6 bulbs and lots of flowers: £5.00
Tete a Tete, in plastic or terracotta pots from 9cm – 1 litre 3 – 6 bulbs: £2.50 – £5.00
Jack Snipe, 3 -4 bulbs in a vintage terracotta pot: £4.50
Minnow, 4 to 6 bulbs in a range of terracotta and plastic pots: £2.50 – £6.00
Hardy Perennials
All in 12/13cms/1 litre pots: £5 a pot
Grown by me from seed or division in peat free compost, these have been out all winter and in all weathers and are completely hardened off. They can survive very low temperatures. They have been chosen because they are beautiful, but also because they are all extremely attractive to pollinating insects. Another bonus is that all these plants have proved to be slug resistant in my garden.
Tellima Grandiflora: a very pretty and useful plant which can grow in either moist shade or sun and copes well with heavy clay soil. A clump-forming perennial, it has a neat and attractive low growing rosette of mid-green leaves which have hints of bronze. Spikes of scented cream flowers often tinged pink emerge from late spring to mid-summer. Particularly good in a dappled shade border. Height around 45 cms in my garden but can be taller and spread around 30cms. 1 litre pot: £5
Linaria Springside White: a magnet for pollinators, this elegant plant has masses of tiny, white, snap-dragon like flowers top very upright stems that are clothed in small soft-green leaves. A lovely self-seeding plant that might produce flowers in other colours. Can grow up to 90cm and likes sun. 1 litre pot: £5
Linaria Canon Went: another wonderful garden plant for pollinators with spikes of lovely pink flowers in summer. 3ft (90cm)
Geum Mai Tai: one of my favourite geums which looks delicate and beautiful with its semi double ruffled flowers, but is tough and reliable – a great combination. Can grow up to 45cms; tolerates some shade and enjoys moist soil. Flowers from May onwards and can flower again later in the summer if cut back.
Geum Pretticoats Peach: Soft semi-double peachy-pink and yellow petals surround a mass of bee magnet stamens. A pretty variety its blooms face outwards, rather than downwards, and appear over several months. A lovely plant for a container or front of the border. Grows to around 40 cms
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