Fruit: ~~ Blackcurrants ~~ Raspberries ~~
Vegetables: ~~ Beetroot ~~ Broad Beans ~~ Carrots ~~ Courgettes ~~ Cucumber ~~ French Beans ~~ Garlic ~~ Greek Cress ~~ Leeks ~~ Lettuce & Salad Leaves ~~ Peas ~~ Runner Beans ~~ Shallots ~~ Spinach beet, Chard & Spinach ~~ Spring Onions & Salad Onions ~~ Squashes ~~ Tomatoes ~~ General ~~ Crops for Partial Shade ~~ Not Good Companions ~~ Watering ~~
Herbs: ~~ Basil and more on Basil ~~ Coriander ~~ Marjoram (Oregano) ~~ Parsley ~~ Drying Herbs ~~
Cut Flowers: ~~ Cut Flower Tips ~~
Greenhouses:~~ Crops in Unheated Greenhouses ~~
How To: ~~ Be Green in the Garden ~~ Compost, Manures and Supplements ~~ Good Plant Companions ~~ Prevent Seedlings 'damping off' ~~ Useful mulches ~~
Issues: ~~ High Hedge Problems ~~ Poisonous Plants ~~
Pests and Diseases: ~~ Potato and Tomato Blight ~~ Wasps ~~
Time savers: ~~ Ten Minute Gardening ~~
Tools. etc: ~~ Gardening Gloves ~~
And here is my current Plant Wish List
I keep coming across scraps of paper or notes in my diary about plants I've read about or been told about by someone that I'm considering buying for my garden. Inevitably, when I go to the garden centre, I've forgotten all of these. So this is my quick reminder list - it will change over time.
For Containers
- Aciderantha murielae - the scented cousin of the gladiolus. The flowers bloom for six weeks or more if you remove the odd bottom flower as it goes over.
- Cerinthe major 'Purpurescens'.
- Cosmos - Flowers from late June until November in a mild year.
- Potentilla fruticosa 'Primrose Beauty' is a short shrub that is smothered in pale yellow flowers from May to September. It needs sun but will grow on any soil and needs no pruning.
- Camomile - variety 'Treneague' has a soothing scent.
- Mentha requienii - has a strong mint and citrus aroma when touched.
- Linnaea borealis (twin flower) - creeping ground cover, evergreen woodland plant. Pink and white fragrant flowers in early to mid summer.
- Lilium martagon (Turk's cap lily) - good in a shady border. Scented pink or white flowers can reach 6ft. Plant in autumn and through to spring.
- Dicentra scandens (syn. D. thalictrifolia) - climber which can get up to 13ft. Yellow or white flowers in late summer or early autumn.
- Tobacco plant (Nicotiana sylvestris) - tallish and scented, flowers open in the evening.
- Schizophragma hydrangeoides has large shite lacy flowers from June till the end of August and will climb a shady wall without support (as will Hydrangea petiolaris which I already have).
- Night-scented stock (Matthiola bicornis) is nothing to look at, but heavily scented. Tuck in among other plants.
- White (summer) jasmine.
- Scented honeysuckles: 'Graham Thomas', 'Halliana' and 'Belgica'.
- Star jasmine (Trachelopspermum jasminoides) is headily perfumed but needs a sunny sheltered wall.
- Tobacco plant (Nicotiana sylvestris) - tallish and scented, flowers open in the evening.
Other plants
- Gladiolus carneus (painted lady) - similar to G. byzantinus. Flowers white splashed with pink. Plant in spring.
- Clematis - viticella types: these flower late in the year. Prune severely to bottom of plant at a pair of healthy buds in late winter to early spring.Rosa 'John Clare' - prolific flowering English rose with deep pink cupped blooms.
- Pelargonium with nice scents - 'Attar of Roses' (smelling of Turkish Delight), 'Mabel Grey' (lemons), P. odoratissimum (apple) and P. tomentosum (peppermint).
- Sambucus nigra f porphyrophylla 'Eva' - an exotic elderflower hybrid with filigree chocolate-coloured leaves reminiscent of a Japanese maple. Ice pink flowers in spring followed by burgundy berries. Deciduous, height and spread 4m (12 feet). In spring, prune stems to within several buds of the old wood.
- Sweet peas. 'Cupani' has delicate mauve and maroon flowers as well as a perfume that can fill a room; 'Matucana' has intensely shaded maroon and violet flowers and is fragrant (sow in late winter for the earliest, strongest blooms); 'Painted Lady' dates from the 1730s and has charming pink and blush-white flowers. All sweet peas like a fertile soil and a place in full sun or part shade.
- Thalictrum (meadow rue). Perennial with 'maidenhair' like foliage and sprays of small pastel flowers in summer. Sun or part-shade. Around 4ft high.
- Coronilla glauca 'Citrina'. Easy to grow shrub for almost any garden situation, in pots or train as a wall shrub. Height and spread 39 inches. Blue green foliage, pale yellow flowers with strong sweet lemon fragrance.
- Akebia quinata (chocolate vine) is a climber that will grow in sun or shade. Deep red flowers in Spring are gorgeously scented.
- Hebe 'Youngii' is a neat little shrub good for ground cover. The large lilac flowers right through summer are loved by bees and butterflies.
- Rosa 'Veilchen Blau' - thornless scented rambler. Dusky magenta flower clusters, fading to lilac with a rich orange perfume. Looks good with purple clematis.
- Rosa 'Goldfinch' - thornless rambler.
- Rosa 'Zepherine Drouhin' - a Bourbon climber with shocking pink, strongly perfumed flowers. Inclined to mildew, so needs good air circulation.
- Rosa 'Kathleen Harrop' - a softer pink version of Zepherine Drouhin.
