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Plants => Nice Plants => Topic started by: ideasguy on August 01, 2008, 10:04:18 PM

Title: Diascia Flying Colors Apricot (='Diastina')
Post by: ideasguy on August 01, 2008, 10:04:18 PM

This one is lookiing good at present and is much admired by visitors

Title: Re: Diascia Flying Colors Apricot (='Diastina')
Post by: ideasguy on August 01, 2008, 10:04:59 PM

and here a close up:

Title: Re: Diascia Flying Colors Apricot (='Diastina')
Post by: NightHawk on August 01, 2008, 10:15:04 PM

Nice pictures George.

Are your visitors paying customers, or just friends and relatives.  :D

You could open up to the public and make a quick buck.  ;)

Laurie.

Title: Re: Diascia Flying Colors Apricot (='Diastina')
Post by: ideasguy on August 01, 2008, 10:31:17 PM

I'd have to pay THEM to visit  :D
Ive also got a pink variety, but it hasnt started to flower anywhere this year - may have died  :'(

Title: Re: Diascia Flying Colors Apricot (='Diastina')
Post by: Tom on August 02, 2008, 06:21:47 AM

Niceplant and nice weed-free border. Tom.

Title: Re: Diascia Flying Colors Apricot (='Diastina')
Post by: ideasguy on August 02, 2008, 09:59:38 AM

Well, the first part of the observation is true  :)
You should have seen that same area when I returned from a few days in Manchester, followed by a few days of rain  :o
Chickenweed! Fortunately, I agree with my fathers comments (I inherited this place) - the chicken weed is the fastest growing weed, and the easiest to weed out.

Ive noticed another thing about taking photos of plants. You see things in photos that aren't so distracting in "reality".
e.g. in those photos, see the sticks and stones  ;D

Other plants in the photo are:
Artemisia 'Powis Castle'  and Gaura lindheimeri 'Sunset Dreams'
This year, I bought two new Gaura to go with one I had in my garden. Unfortunately, it didn't emerge from its winter slumbers  :'(
I love Gaura. First spotted one in a garden in England a few years ago.