Wednesday, 1 June 2011

The plants we're having in our show garden

We've grown nearly all the flowering plants ourselves, and some of the ferns too.

Geranium pratense, with a bee!Geranium pratense 'Splish Splash'

Geranium pratense. These are grown from seedlings so there's a bit of variation in them; the one on the right probably came from the variety 'Splish Splash'.

Lychnis flos cuculi - ragged robinSilene dioica - red campion

Lychnis flos cuculi (ragged robin) and Silene dioica (red campion), well, a bit of it - it was windy!

Fragraria vesca - alpine strawberryDigitalis purpurea

Fragraria vesca (alpine/woodland strawberry) and Digitalis purpurea (foxglove).

Geranium sanguineum

Geranium sanguineum. These were the only flowering plant we couldn't grow from seedlings, because we couldn't find enough that had seeded themself around our gardens!

We've also got Polemonium caeruleum (Jacob's ladder), but none of those are in flower yet. We've been obsessively removing flower spikes from some of the plants to make sure we get lots of flowers in time for the show.

Carex sylvaticaDryopteris filix mas 'Linearis'

Carex sylvatica, grown from plants that seeded in my gran's garden, and Dryopteris filix mas 'Linearis', one of the ferns we've dug up from my garden for the show garden, due to the great fern shortage!

Dryopteris affinis Dryopteris affinis cristata 'The King'

Dryopteris affinis, and a cristate form of it - cristata 'The King'

Polystichum setiferum Asplenium scolopendrium

A more divided fern - Polystichum setiferum, and a less divided fern - Asplenium scolopendrium!

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