Like many gardeners I have fistfuls of labels from all the plants I’ve bought over the years. Coming in from the garden this evening I thought you might recognise this scenario.
You are rifling through your box/tin/drawer to find the name/height/growing requirements for a shrub you remember planting earlier in the year and you find more and more tickets piling up from all those now lost choice specimens chomped into oblivion by fat slugs and snails.
It is a sad little moment when you remember a favourite plant that has been disappeared. My favourite clematis ‘Yukikomachi’ has not been seen this year neither has ‘Purpurea Plena Elegans’, but I do have some survivors – as you can see.
This will have to remind me to be more vigilant next spring protecting the new shoots and keep up with the feeding and watering regime.
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Love clematis, but it finds where I live to be too hot. We can’t have everything.
Too hot, then you must be able to successfully grow bouganvillia outside – I do envy you. I didn’t even get any peaches this year (2014). 😦