Posted by Sacha on August 30, 2011, 6:33 am
This will give you a morbid laugh - someone, or something, has cut
Cobaea pringlei 'Poppet's Revenge' down to a short stem. It's still
alive but again, we will not see flowers or cutting material this year!
If you have any for sale, please let me know. I'm going to put two
in, in different places for safety's sake! To urglers - this is a
lovely Cobaea Charlie and Liz and we were given by a now-deceased
friend called Poppet. It's history in our garden has been a chapter of
errors but Charlie's seems to be doing beautifully and is very
vigorous, hence its joke name of Poppet's Revenge! Both Ray and I
pointed it out to anyone who does work in the garden and asked them to
be very, very careful with it. Ah well...
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
Posted by Charlie Pridham on August 31, 2011, 3:20 am
> This will give you a morbid laugh - someone, or something, has cut Cobaea
> pringlei 'Poppet's Revenge' down to a short stem. It's still alive but
> again, we will not see flowers or cutting material this year! If you have
> any for sale, please let me know. I'm going to put two in, in different
> places for safety's sake! To urglers - this is a lovely Cobaea Charlie
> and Liz and we were given by a now-deceased friend called Poppet. It's
> history in our garden has been a chapter of errors but Charlie's seems to
> be doing beautifully and is very vigorous, hence its joke name of Poppet's
> Revenge! Both Ray and I pointed it out to anyone who does work in the
> garden and asked them to be very, very careful with it. Ah well...
> --
> Sacha
> www.hillhousenursery.com
> South Devon
Will be able to sort you out next spring, mine as you say is huge, covers 3
apple trees and is just coming into flower!
Still busy pulling the kitchen down here, sounds as if you may have some
work to do on yours as well!
--
Charlie, Gardening in Cornwall
Holders of National Collections of Clematis viticella
and Lapageria rosea cvs
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Posted by Sacha on August 31, 2011, 5:16 am
On 2011-08-31 08:20:56 +0100, "Charlie Pridham"
>
>> This will give you a morbid laugh - someone, or something, has cut
>> Cobaea pringlei 'Poppet's Revenge' down to a short stem. It's still
>> alive but again, we will not see flowers or cutting material this year!
>> If you have any for sale, please let me know. I'm going to put two in,
>> in different places for safety's sake! To urglers - this is a lovely
>> Cobaea Charlie and Liz and we were given by a now-deceased friend
>> called Poppet. It's history in our garden has been a chapter of errors
>> but Charlie's seems to be doing beautifully and is very vigorous, hence
>> its joke name of Poppet's Revenge! Both Ray and I pointed it out to
>> anyone who does work in the garden and asked them to be very, very
>> careful with it. Ah well...
>> --
>> Sacha
>> www.hillhousenursery.com
>> South Devon
>>
>>
>
> Will be able to sort you out next spring, mine as you say is huge,
> covers 3 apple trees and is just coming into flower!
Thanks, Charlie. Please put me down for 3. And if you'll have them,
Ray says we'd like 10 liners of that splendid Clematis tangutica you
brought us. Again, for the benefit of urglers, I asked Charlie if he
had any C. Bill Mackenzie because that's the one we've always grown.
Instead, he recommended C. Lambton Park which is a much better and
rather larger-flowered variety. We're growing it up a pole and along
some rope, tangled up with a creamy white rose (Iforget which) and it's
getting away very well having been planted in July and it's flowering
well now. This means that not only is it lovely in itself, it takes
over where the rose finishes.
>
> Still busy pulling the kitchen down here, sounds as if you may have
> some work to do on yours as well!
Well, not pulling it down but a big clean up plus the tedious task of
getting estimates to give the insurers. I leave the rough stuff to you!
;-)
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
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> pringlei 'Poppet's Revenge' down to a short stem. It's still alive but
> again, we will not see flowers or cutting material this year! If you have
> any for sale, please let me know. I'm going to put two in, in different
> places for safety's sake! To urglers - this is a lovely Cobaea Charlie
> and Liz and we were given by a now-deceased friend called Poppet. It's
> history in our garden has been a chapter of errors but Charlie's seems to
> be doing beautifully and is very vigorous, hence its joke name of Poppet's
> Revenge! Both Ray and I pointed it out to anyone who does work in the
> garden and asked them to be very, very careful with it. Ah well...
> --
> Sacha
> www.hillhousenursery.com
> South Devon