Hallson Gardens

Superb, I love the ones with long tendrils.

I'll show you my first time blooming orange one next week when I'm online at home.

I don't know what variety my purple metels are. I like the single ones though, they are pale purple by the stem, getting darker towards the rim.

I could never make up my mind whether they are double or triple, white or yellow, I was getting both forms and colours on the same plant. This year they are white and yellow at the same time. Yellow outers and white inners. I call them skirts and petticoats. :lol: I'm not sure how it happened, but I...

We don't move house until 23rd September and I imagine the hostas will be a bit skanky by then so I'll get there next spring and take requests for specific photos then.

I've just found out that the UK National collection of hostas is held a short drive from my new home.

Not only do they have over 1000 varieties, but they sell them as well.

I don't know what the technical term is for flowers with joined petals like brugs, but on looking at many photos and all the other brugs I have, brugs normally have 5 co-joined petals making up the flower. I planted seeds from my Frosty Pink cross last November and today the first flower has opened....

All my project B seedlings damped off. I don't know why.

Last September we went for a walk through a Spanish village. I noticed a datura meteloides bush in a garden covered in seed pods so I reached over and liberated one. As there were no flowers I could not tell what I would get from the seeds, but today I found out. The first flower opened and it is a ...

Heavens to murgatroyd, it's a shame I didn't grow these this year. I have quite a few left over though, hopefully they'll stay viable for next spring.

Super stem, reminds me of a giraffe.

A pot? They're 5 feet high!

I have vestigial seed pods which don't look like they are going to swell. I manually polinated some flowers, but to no avail. I was thinking they were mules. I lied. The vestigial pods are no longer that, they are swelling, but I expect to move house in Mid-September and don't expect them to be rip...

Is this the voodoo lily? You stand the corm on a saucer and it flowers then when the flower dies down you plant it and the leaves sprout.

I had those in the 1970's but haven't seen them since.

They're nice. I've never managed to get cacti to flower.

How about a hebe? There are so many varieties, sizes and colours, and they flower all year round here.

Quite nice, but I've never been a fan of sals. (I'm honest if nothing else )

I have vestigial seed pods which don't look like they are going to swell. I manually polinated some flowers, but to no avail. I was thinking they were mules.

At the moment I am being very good and not buying plants or obtaining seeds or cuttings. I have sold my house and hope to move in September, we don't know where we are going yet as we will be renting and waiting for house prices to finish falling. We found a house at the weekend with some land next ...

Has anybody any idea what kind of cactus this is? I "found" it growing in Spain and snapped off the branch you see at the bottom. It is growing air roots all the way up it, so I assume it is a type that hugs a tree. I don't know why it keeps going thin, it is one stem not a load of short connected s...

Last year I was sent some hibiscus Texas Star seeds by a friend in America. I grew two in pots in the greenhouse and one in the garden. One of those I kept in the greenhouse over winter produced its first flower when I was away on holiday, the second came out today, but a combination of the thunder ...