Posted by Phil L on April 21, 2007, 10:53 am
up here in sunny St Helens (Lancs), we haven't had any rain for months - in
fact, I can't remember last time it rained, at least not enough to actually
wet anything.
The result being that the new spring growth seems to be suffering - even the
grass on my lawn is burnt away and yellow, while the soil below is hard and
cracked and I'd lost two shrubs before I realised, one isn't so important
because I've got other specimens of this, but I don't know what it's called,
and the other I'd rather have kept - it's got slender green leaves and puts
on a show about this time of year with firy red growing tips, it also has
bunches of whitish seeds hanging down - whatever it's called, it appears to
have given up the ghost.
While me cakehole's open, what's thos blue small flowers called? - someone
mentioned them as an alternative to lobelia for borders/baskets etc?
TIA
Posted by Space on April 21, 2007, 11:17 am
> up here in sunny St Helens (Lancs), we haven't had any rain for months -
> in fact, I can't remember last time it rained, at least not enough to
> actually wet anything.
> The result being that the new spring growth seems to be suffering - even
> the grass on my lawn is burnt away and yellow, while the soil below is
> hard and cracked and I'd lost two shrubs before I realised, one isn't so
> important because I've got other specimens of this, but I don't know what
> it's called, and the other I'd rather have kept - it's got slender green
> leaves and puts on a show about this time of year with firy red growing
> tips, it also has bunches of whitish seeds hanging down - whatever it's
> called, it appears to have given up the ghost.
> While me cakehole's open, what's thos blue small flowers called? - someone
> mentioned them as an alternative to lobelia for borders/baskets etc?
> TIA
up here in North Liverpool it looks like rain is soon. According to the
weather forecast there is an 80% of rain tomorrow.
The plant with the red tips - is it a pieris?
Has St Helens moved? When I was based on Ruskin Drive recently St Helens
was in Merseyside.
Posted by shazzbat on April 22, 2007, 6:40 am
>> up here in sunny St Helens (Lancs), we haven't had any rain for months -
>> in fact, I can't remember last time it rained, at least not enough to
>> actually wet anything.
>> The result being that the new spring growth seems to be suffering - even
>> the grass on my lawn is burnt away and yellow, while the soil below is
>> hard and cracked and I'd lost two shrubs before I realised, one isn't so
>> important because I've got other specimens of this, but I don't know what
>> it's called, and the other I'd rather have kept - it's got slender green
>> leaves and puts on a show about this time of year with firy red growing
>> tips, it also has bunches of whitish seeds hanging down - whatever it's
>> called, it appears to have given up the ghost.
>>
>> While me cakehole's open, what's thos blue small flowers called? -
>> someone mentioned them as an alternative to lobelia for borders/baskets
>> etc?
>>
>> TIA
> up here in North Liverpool it looks like rain is soon. According to the
> weather forecast there is an 80% of rain tomorrow.
> The plant with the red tips - is it a pieris?
> Has St Helens moved? When I was based on Ruskin Drive recently St Helens
> was in Merseyside.
Of course it's moved. So has Manchester. When I were a lad growing up there,
it too was in Lancashire.
Steve
Posted by Sacha on April 21, 2007, 11:26 am
On 21/4/07 15:53, in article 9ApWh.4976$Ro3.2919@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk,
> up here in sunny St Helens (Lancs), we haven't had any rain for months - in
> fact, I can't remember last time it rained, at least not enough to actually
> wet anything.
> The result being that the new spring growth seems to be suffering - even the
> grass on my lawn is burnt away and yellow, while the soil below is hard and
> cracked and I'd lost two shrubs before I realised, one isn't so important
> because I've got other specimens of this, but I don't know what it's called,
> and the other I'd rather have kept - it's got slender green leaves and puts
> on a show about this time of year with firy red growing tips, it also has
> bunches of whitish seeds hanging down - whatever it's called, it appears to
> have given up the ghost.
Pieris japonica? It's now been 33 days since there was any significant
rainfall.
>
> While me cakehole's open, what's thos blue small flowers called? - someone
> mentioned them as an alternative to lobelia for borders/baskets etc?
>
Possibly blue Bacopa? Then there's Brachycombe,
Anagallis and Verbena.
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Posted by K on April 21, 2007, 2:10 pm
>up here in sunny St Helens (Lancs), we haven't had any rain for months - in
>fact, I can't remember last time it rained, at least not enough to actually
>wet anything.
>The result being that the new spring growth seems to be suffering - even the
>grass on my lawn is burnt away and yellow, while the soil below is hard and
>cracked and I'd lost two shrubs before I realised, one isn't so important
>because I've got other specimens of this, but I don't know what it's called,
>and the other I'd rather have kept - it's got slender green leaves and puts
>on a show about this time of year with firy red growing tips, it also has
>bunches of whitish seeds hanging down - whatever it's called, it appears to
>have given up the ghost.
>While me cakehole's open, what's thos blue small flowers called? - someone
>mentioned them as an alternative to lobelia for borders/baskets etc?
Anagallis?
Highly recommended even if it wasn't what you were thinking of.
--
Kay
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> in fact, I can't remember last time it rained, at least not enough to
> actually wet anything.
> The result being that the new spring growth seems to be suffering - even
> the grass on my lawn is burnt away and yellow, while the soil below is
> hard and cracked and I'd lost two shrubs before I realised, one isn't so
> important because I've got other specimens of this, but I don't know what
> it's called, and the other I'd rather have kept - it's got slender green
> leaves and puts on a show about this time of year with firy red growing
> tips, it also has bunches of whitish seeds hanging down - whatever it's
> called, it appears to have given up the ghost.
> While me cakehole's open, what's thos blue small flowers called? - someone
> mentioned them as an alternative to lobelia for borders/baskets etc?
> TIA