Obsessive, compulsive gardeners & growers. Collection of over 100 varieties of salvias. Enjoying our own garden at long last! Marketing team for
@RarePlantFair
It's all systems go here in our garden on the Welsh borders, propagating our collection of over 100 salvia varieties. As usual, we'll be selling our surplus plants at selected plant fairs, or collection by appointment.
More details at our website
Well Twitter friends, a beautiful day today, for which we are so grateful, given what is going on in the world. It doesn't look much at the moment, but we've been planning and starting to plant our new garden🌞😊
The exquisite turquoise blue flowers of Salvia bullulata 'Pale Form'. We've brought this plant into the conservatory for the winter, and it will probably flower right the way through indoors. A unique colour, and definitely a top ten Salvia as far as we're concerned! 😍😍
How lucky were we to see this today - a hummingbird hawk-moth feeding on Salvia oxyphora. Many New World salvias are pollinated by (real) hummingbirds in the wild: this is the closest that we get here in
#somerset
#salviasunday
Do you suffer from floppy plants? We've solved this problem with upturned hanging baskets, letting the plant grow through it naturally. No ugly canes or supports in view, just beautiful upright plants.
Can someone PLEASE tell Teresa to STOP IT🚫🚫 Our retirement 'hobby' has turned into an obsession... We even have Salvias in the Garage waiting for a space. We're not a commercial nursery, I think Teresa has forgotten that. 😂😂
Really excited about this NEW Salvia seedling we found in our garden. Almost black flowers with dark bracts. Growing upright at 3 feet. Will definitely be propagated. We're calling it 'Blackthorne' after our house name. 😊😊
We have over 70 varieties of hardy geranium in our garden and now is peak flowering time. In this selection: 'Red Admiral', sanguinum 'Canon Miles', 'Azure Rush', 'Black Beauty', x oxonianum 'Katherine Adele', x magnificum 'Rosemoor', 'Sirak', sanguinum 'Max Frei' and G pratense
Had a quick spin round the garden this morning and counted over 100 different varieties of salvia in flower here on the Welsh borders. Here's just a tiny selection...
It's been a few years since we've grown Agastache 'Black Adder' in our garden, and can't think why we've left it so long. Excellent, long flowering and a great plant for pollinators - what's not to like?
Absolutely love this Achillea 'Pomegranate', now on its second flush of flowers this season. It was cut right back after flowering and here it is now. Can't recommend it enough. 😊😊
We grew this in our old garden and just had to have it in our new garden. Centaurea simplicicaulis! An under rated plant and extremely hardy . Looking good!
Now for something mahoosive.. Salvia gesneriflora 'Tequila'. Huge red flowers with almost black calyces. Can grow to 25ft in the wild in Mexico (gulp! ). We've had it a month and it's 5ft tall already. Machete at the ready.
Photo from
Rosa 'The Generous Gardener' dripping with flowers... The best it has ever been since being planted 2 years ago... Of course we had to have it, doesn't every gardener.
Teresa promised she wasn't going to do any cuttings of our Salvia collection until we'd moved..... What happened there then. Just enough room for the VW on the driveway. 😂😂
We only planted this Paeonia 'Jan van Leeuwen' last year, so we know it will have more flowers in coming years. The open buds remind us of a fried egg.
Iris 'Austrian Sky' in our garden today (excuse the lack of deadheading, top right😂😂) It seems our garden suits Iris, so there may be more pictures as they open. 😉😉
The hellebores are in full flower in our garden here on the Welsh borders, so it seemed the perfect choice to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy New Year.
Hello twitter friends. Well it's been 3 lonely weeks since we lost our bunny Walnut, but we are pleased to introduce you all to Maple, a pure breed Orange Netherland Dwarf. He's only been home for 2 hours and already stolen our hearts. 💕💕
Just can't keep up with the Iris here in the garden. They are literally opening before our eyes. Here are 4 beauties for your pleasure. 'Jane Phillips', 'Stepping Out', 'Kent Pride' and 'Blue Shimmer'
Geums grow really well here in our garden, and we love them. Very floriferous and long flowering. Here we have 'Hilltop Beacon', 'Flames of Passion', 'Banana Daiquiri' and 'Scarlet Tempest'
Happy 31st Wedding Anniversary to my wonderful husband. We signed our Register whilst the organist played 'Whiter Shade of Pale'. It's a beautiful rose too. We're off for a stroll around
@DAustinRoses
garden today. Such romantics.
Oops, we did it again!! Car boot full of plants for our new borders we've created. Those eagle-eyed amongst you, the tin of paint is for painting our Summerhouse. 😂😂
Not been the best week weather wise for garden photography, but a better morning this morning. Which gives us the opportunity to share a photo of our favourite Salvia, S. dombeyi, still in flower here on the Welsh borders. Flowers are the largest on any Salvia, at about 15cm!
Now for something completely different. Salvia africana lutea, with glaucous leaves. An evergreen rounded shrub with an erect and spreading habit is native to coastal areas of South Africa.
Our garden across the road is looking lovely at the moment. If you've been following us for a while you may remember some pictures of this area after we mulched it in April. Very pleased with the results.
On Saturday 22nd June, at our Open Day, we will have this Salvia darcyi. Hardy perennial once established, it will produce masses of large scarlet red flowers on spikes up to around 4 feet. Originates from Central and North America.
We were delighted to welcome
@loujnicholls
to our garden today. Such wonderul comments from her, which was lovely, especially with her credentials. Lou even bought some of our Salvias to take home with her for her garden. Thank you for a wonderful afternoon.
Looking for something a bit more unusual? Salvia discolor, originating from Peru. We have some lovely plants for sale at our Open Day this Saturday 22nd.
Very much looking forward to our next Plant Fair, the
@Plantfairs
event at Capesthorne Hall in Cheshire on Sunday August 13th. Still choosing the salvias that we'll be bringing, but it will definitely include Salvia 'Salmon Dance'. See you there!
A new salvia in our collection is Salvia chionophylla, from Mexico, given to us by Peter Wadeley. Stunning pale blue flowers with white markings, on a reasonably compact shrub. Reputed to be fairly hardy, but we haven't tested this out yet ourselves.
The stunning Salvia dichlamys giving it large in our garden today . This will keep flowering now until the first frosts in autumn, and is hardy. What's not to like!
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Been trying for days to get photos to do justice to the magnificent Salvia mexicana 'Lolita' in our garden here on the Welsh borders,and the lighting was just right this morning. The shape, foliage, and everything about the flowers is just superb. Height just over 2m😍😍
Summer arrived here.. How's it been for you? Weather set fair for our OPEN DAY on Saturday. Garden open plus Salvia plant sales. All details on how to book your appt. are on our website (link in profile).
It's the second week in October and there are still 125 varieties of Salvia in flower in the garden. Here's a small selection, mostly this year's cuttings and seedlings.
It's hard to beat the bud/flower colour combination of Salvia mexicana. Fantastic lime green buds, from which the gorgeous rich purple flowers emerge. This variety is 'Lolita'.
A flower stem of S. discolor has also photo bombed its way into the pic!
This is the lovely Sanguisorba 'Pink Brushes', which is really thriving in our new garden here on the Welsh borders. Flowering at around 4ft, the flowers are not as large as those on 'Lilac Squirrel' but the plant is more upright and less prone to flopping.
This is a new salvia for us this year, the stunning Salvia chamaedryoides var. isochroma. Beautiful blue flowers perfectly shown off by the silver-grey foliage.
It's this time of year, when we wish Twitter had a scent function.... Ribes odoratum.... We really love this plant. Oh and by the way, it's been planted in our new garden. 😊😊
Salvia 'Velvet Gem' and Verbena 'Bampton' in our 'Moody' area, looking fantastic.
It's not too late to book your visit TODAY. Garden open and Salvia sales. Visit our profile for more information.
There's a big birthday here today - Happy Birthday to my darling wife Teresa, 60 years young. Special meal planned for this evening, then we're off for a narrow boat cruise on Sunday on the Shropshire Union Canal (there may be afternoon tea and prosecco involved!)
Diplarrena moraea a member of the Iris family, with orchid-like flowers. It has taken 2 years to clump up and now putting on a fantastic display of flowers. Loves the sun and a well drained spot.
One of the best new salvias in our garden here on the Welsh borders this year has been 'Purple and Bloom'. Shorter and (in our view) even darker in colour than 'Amistad', it has been flowering like this for months. 💜💜