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Plant of the Day

Thursday 21 November 2024

Till the first frosts of winter Pelargonium 'Mauve Beauty' (ivy-leaved geranium) will keep flowering. These plants are ideal for summer containers in full sun when filled with a well-drained compost. Shortening the long stems can promote branching and limit the spread of the plant.

pansies by Molly Dean

Dahlia

Wee £5.99

Now £3.99

Three for £10

Dahlia look great in a bed or pots.

For best results plant with M3 compost, osmocote slow release fertiliser, and water retaining gel.

When they start to flower, liquid feed twice a week with Vitax high potash fertiliser.

Dahlia give good late summer flower, sometimes into Autumn.

Horsfields Nursery Tel:- 01226 790441

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Horsfields Nursery

Pot House Hamlet

Silkstone

Barnsley

South Yorkshire

S75 4JU

We are open seven days a week.

10-4pm

Beautiful plants in a beautiful place

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Unusual bedding primulas

Important prerequisite to this post: I’m not a huge fan of the fancy colours and extravagant patterns of primroses bred and selected for bedding schemes, and much prefer the humble and unassuming Primula vulgaris I sometimes find on the hills. The few you’ve seen in my allotment were all saved from the skip at work for the sole purpose of providing early foragers with some food.    

BUT, certain cultivars are indeed striking in their oddity and I can’t help looking at them as interesting weirdos. Here are some I thought would be worth mentioning:

-Primula ‘Marli Candy Corn’. Simple enough you might call it elegant, it reminds me of some of my favourite roses. An outsider in this group.   

-Primula ‘Zebra Blue’. Tacky, but it’s blue, white and yellow, my favourite colour combination. 

-Primula ‘Sirococco Red Flame’. Even tackier. All the primulas in the Sirococco series are just as unique, but this one makes me think of a gorgeous sunset on the beach.

-Primula ‘Belarina Valentine’. A cheaper, living alternative to a bunch of red roses. Nothing less, nothing more. 

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