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Nicolas Sutro's avatar

Hey mate

So, there are people in my life who say I’m big-headed enough, and that folk neither need nor want me stomping around (and over) their plantings and whatever else telling them what’s what. So this reading this may not be good for my moral fibre. Even if it is, of course, true.

I think these photos are cool, and I dig that Supreme Sultan guy (he kind of feeds into my take on life). And so what if the colours aren’t quite what you intended, isn’t that part and parcel of the joy of gardening…getting it a bit wrong to get it a bit more right next time? It’s a creative scene, after all, man.

And that saxifraga variegata is trippy.

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Moyra's avatar

That Verbascum pink petticoats is incredible - and in a North facing border!!!

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Katy's avatar

So stunning 😍😍😍

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Laetitia Maklouf's avatar

What a lovely garden you have made! 😍

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Anne Wareham's avatar

I'm begining to think you don't want conversation? Shall i shut up now?

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Rukmini Iyer's avatar

Err… rereading this for plant combinations, and this here seems like an unusual comment Anne? It takes me at least a week to reply to Substack comments - would be beyond surprised if anyone called me up for not replying within what looks like 1 hour 6 minutes (!) given we have offline lives.

(Even my mother gives me 48 hours on what’s app before phoning the police/my husband for my lack of communication.)

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Anne Wareham's avatar

(I’ll give it a week, then)

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Anne Wareham's avatar

I thought I was talking to @horticulturalish. I think she might rather I shut up - based on a few non encounters. So I'm more looking to stop being a pain than being impatient.

Good to see she has such good sticking up for her friends!

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Moira's avatar

I think it’s really, really lovely. Those peaches and terracottas are beautiful with the brick.

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Harrison's avatar

Love this! Reminds me of the foraged allium butter with chicken of the woods mushroom recipe I made inspired from my Appalachian Trail thru hike. check it out:

https://thesecretingredient.substack.com/p/what-my-great-grandfathers-memoir

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India Knight's avatar

Absolutely lovely 😍

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Susan Hartmann's avatar

Verbascums are sublime. They look fabulous.

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Anne Wareham's avatar

What was Nicholas Sutro right about? (link didn't work)

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Lindsay Osorio's avatar

He was very unkeen on the colour scheme - an entertaining exchange of views. As Moira says below, they work beautifully with the brick.

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Rukmini Iyer's avatar

These soft oranges are lovely! I did look up how to grow irises inspired by your enthusiasm, but the whole dividing clumps thing sounded like a little too much work for moi 😬

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