Herniaria giabra 'sea foam' will you bring out the choco in the Chocolate brown Geranium sissiliforum 'red select' 

Always worth a little recky through the supermarket garden center, normally  I give the bedding annuals a miss. Then I spotted this from the canary Islands,Silvery gray needle foliage and red beak like flowers to follow . Is it an annual because it's tender ? possibly something to over winter? But at under $2 ...

What a week of rain will do. Paulownia tomentosa now looking like a proper tree, one day, probably before it's trunk is to thick for me to easily saw , it will be given the chop...yes , it will . 

And how did Artemisia 'Valerie Finnis' get surrounded by so much garlic ?

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One of the bigger jobs, cutting out the flower spikes of the many  Euphorbia c. "wulfini . More of a job would be to leave them to selfseed , with hundreds germinating  Another reason , the poor plants hidden under neath the rain pounded horizontal  spikes .

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Ever since Sedum 'Munstead dark red' went floppy last summer I've been waiting to try out the  Chelsea chop.  Here we are several weeks latter with four tiny new rosetes popping out from the cut stem...Yeh it works.

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Allium Schubertii nearly there

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May, when may mature shade plants rebel against my all green texture , not too many flower planting. They have there fluffy pink and white way for a few short weeks. Which I love and fully enjoy.

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