Holiday

[bugshaw]

We have had the medical appointments phase of the holiday (except dentist tomorrow and one got cancelled and rescheduled, and another has to be repeated - bah!) and the visiting mother phase. We got a lot done on the garden - mostly working out what to actually do with it, as in five years it's not evolved much past rectangular bit of grass. I now have a fuchsia and six different sorts of lavender, all potted up and ready to grow (or die horribly). If I want a buddleia as a shrub I think my best bet might be to go to a bit of waste ground and pull up a self-seeded stem :-) Mum weeded the lawn, and the rain is giving it a nice soak but I don't think it'll turn the brown bits green. It's all very complicated, working out what would go where, whether it would survive, what it'll look like in a couple of years. I wonder if I should give it up and go back to baking...

Comments

[techiebabe.livejournal.com]

If you want a buddleia get the nice deep purple one from Crocus - I am just waiting for mine to flower. It is doing well despite being put in the one area where nothing grows.

Fuchsias are hard to kill (frost might do it) but I always fail to keep lavender alive.

[sphyg.livejournal.com]

I'll happily be a baking guinea pig ;)

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

I just need a spot of baking inspiration. Can you cook fuchsia?

[sphyg.livejournal.com]

I can't find any recipes. Though Aldabra made wine out of surplus lilac recently.

[watervole.livejournal.com]

Dig up a buddlea seedling rather than pull it - you want to keep the small roots as well as the big ones.

Fuchsias do well if you feed them home-made compost every year.

Lavender needs *gentle* pruning. Don't cut into old wood when the plants get bigger. Expect to replace them after half a dozen years when they get a bit leggy.

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

Lavender is easy to keep happy if it gets lots of sun.

You know there are other kinds of buddleia--still tough, and good for butterflies but look less like waste ground plants? There's one with spherical orange flowers that smell like honey...
http://www.photoready.co.uk/flora-fauna/buddleia-globosa-hope.html