We have a series of working parties helping with the Nerines. The next ones are on Tuesday, 16th June, 2020 at 2:00pm and Thursday, 18th June at 10:00am. Please contact Rose on 255537 if you would like to join us. In the meantime here is a download of our Nerine Cultural Hints.
Plant Heritage Guernsey
Nerine cultural hints
These are just chives, but they make a nice border and the bees love them.
The blue Iris is in the Victor Hugo garden in Candie Gardens. The others are in the gardens of PHG members.
It was a long wait but worth it, I now know the colour of the Echium. They are swarming with bees!
These wonderful Watsonia are in Guelle Road, opposite Amherst school.
Rosa 'Penelope' is a sweet smelling Hybrid Musk, with an RHS Award of Garden Merit.
Tattie will be taking people round her garden at 10:30am on Tuesday, 15th and Saturday, 19th June. It is essential to book and full details are on the Plant Heritage Guernsey website:
https://plantheritageguernsey.org.uk/event/forest-lodge-a-walk-with-the-gardener/
I can ...thoroughly recommend this tour.
Forest Lodge – a walk with the gardener
This is plantsman’s garden with a wide range of more tender and unusual plants and shrubs and is the source of many of the plants that are sold at...
plantheritageguernsey.org.ukThese are the fabulous poppies outside Troalic on Braye Road.
Cornus kousa 'Venus' in Candie Gardens, near the bottom gate on Candie Road. The flowers will turn pink, so try and see this magnificent tree.
Osteospermum are out all over the island and will keep on flowering into autumn. There is no perfume in the flower, but the stalk smells beautifully. We learnt this little fact from Liam Gaughan, the head gardener in Herm, so go and try it for yourself.
