I'm destabilized by a small group of friends who know FB so much in gardening and botany that I dare not write anything now because I am always somewhere Uygur on a detail, on a plant or anything. But there is a text that I wanted to write for some time. It is on the plant catalogs. I know it is upon us, friends of nature, the same effect as when you go to the site Kitsuné : you want to spend money you did a long time. In addition, it controls all our plants on the Internet now, but the plant catalogs on paper that is our security blanket to read at night before going to dream about all the plants we like to have. There is an obvious commercial aspect, it could push spending splurge, but I manage to restrain myself and I think a lot before buying anything. In general, I receive these catalogs because I already ordered plants from a particular merchant. But when I receive a catalog by mail, it is always a feast day, a bit like if it was a porn DVD. I begin by
Baumal because Christian laughed at me recently because he believes they are not enough ecologists. Well, I am nevertheless mindful of that but not sure when this catalog has over 1000 pages in color, a slice thickness of 1 cm and about 5 trillion references. Baumal is the catalog that accompanied my arrival in the country and I will not forget. Before, I could no longer flip through the bible seeds dreaming of planting. This is the punishment for gardeners who live in town. I spent the early years by sow like crazy, my Massif Central has gone through all the colors of annuals, but after three years I am stabilized with an almost exclusive mix of purple cosmos Versailles Dazzler (2476) and Cosmos sulphureus Sunny Red (2492 ). When Jean-Luc said, "It would be nice to change a little, right? it's the same thing every year "I'm grumpy in cons attacker because he did not see that to replant the field every year, was the only way to get rid once and for all the bindweed and other weeds that I did not want to see. This mix of the cosmos, it was as if I had reached a plateau quality, this mini field was invaded by thousands of bees and butterflies and huge green grasshoppers and all the beasts that go along with even the weasels and all the goldfinches came from all over to eat the seeds. Before, I mixed all that with several varieties of poppies, poppies, immortal, of yarrow, the wallflowers, pansies, violets, all the stuff that is easily sow. So when I had heart problems in 2008, I told myself it was all over the field to turn around and hand weeding, watering in the summer, returning to earth in winter. I changed everything in grass field. Maximum effect for minimum maintenance.
But these catalogs are constantly proposing new seeds and new tubers. There is a revolution in progress for ten years that reverses all the conventional wisdom about plants and these catalogs give us an idea of what is imagined by engineers in agronomy, especially when we do not go, like me, at festivals Chaumont kind or Courson. I discovered the new species in my bed warm.
For the text does not make a book, here's what I found in the Spring 2011 catalog Beaumale . This year I'll start planting of perennials for my friends Ray and Chantal who need beautiful plants that are doing themselves. I'd love to try the leaven Worthii Eryngium (1338), Eryngium giganteum Silver Frost (1600) and Eryngium alpinum Suberbum (1602) but it's super hard at getting this stuff, I have managed well with the Planum.
- Isatis tinctoria (1456) for the pebbles at Chantal.
- Mulhenbergia capillaris (2092) is a grass with a flowering pink
- Hierochloe odorata (2072), a grass with flowers that smell of vanilla
- Hordeum jubatum (2108) and of course Lagurus Bonny Tails, the prettiest grass bobble
- Ammi visnagra Casablanca (2009) and Anathum graveolens Mariska (2015) for the field of natural Chantal
- Centaurea moschara Suavolens Magnus (2391) lemon
- Chrysanthemum coronarium Primrose yellow primrose, anyway I'm crazy about all the flowers resembling chamomile flowers such as Tetra White Wonder (2416) and yarrow ptarmina Pearl (1007) so easy to sow
- Carrot Black Night (2344) woaou, a carrot flower purple lilac. Always
marigolds tenuifolia Ornament reddish brown (3060) for the garden but I dream of replacing them by the Red (3051) more firecracker red mahogany. Or roses to India Golden Trumpets (3308), absolutely nuts, and a sunflower Valentine (3457) light yellow to black disc, still very easy to sow. It absolutely must try this queen daisy Hulk (3244), a kind of radioactive green monstrosity of Reseda pyramidal Machet (3290) or bio versio (1950) who feel good summer and I want to try Teloxys aristata Foam Sea (3532), poor grass that makes a reddish flowering to dry.
Baumal is a beautiful place to record the madness of the fashion by which some old-fashioned plants like zinnias their popularity will go up for 10 or 15 years. The dahlia is the fashion madness since Bishop of York and Bishop of Leceister. There are colors that fart as Buttefly Night (831), Pink Isa (797), the 3 Lucky Love (766), Lucky Heart (767) and Lucky Stripe (765) (yes, buy a plant for its name!) and I do not delusional Smarty (850), a discovery bionic petals alternating with the disorder if you please. Gladioli is kif kif, there are still 5 years nobody dared to touch it really redneck, now they have colors so extreme that they can be slipped into any kind as to make massive Kings Lynn (9916). Well, begonias, I always come not even if my brother Lala loves it and I also see that it moves in that direction. Lilies, I can not do either, just because it is too expensive but finally the big lily monstrous style Honeymoon (931) are cheap (3 for € 6.80). The arum, I finally arrived with Albertville has a well in a funky black white flower (9431) and of course this mythological arum cornutum (9486) I mentioned in "Sheikh" I believe. Daylilies are in full vogue again with such as lilies, variegated leaves that change as Golden Zebra (86771) and coreopsis, it's so beautiful that I've never planted Yet Bolero (93 443) is woaou! with burgundy flowers. Hostas, I am finally, after all these years that I put off until later and I'm starting to crack on the monstrous Independence (9680) and especially White Feather (9687) which is an albino hosta to put in a dark corner to cause a double take every time we move forward, but I wonder if my favorite is the new War Paint (96826) or Jurassic Park (96,828), monstrous.
hybrid Echinacea Meringue (9345) a green-white tassel, a euphorbia amygdaloid Helena's Blush (79 086), purple marginated cream. I jump here very soon I love lots of varieties such as carnations and grasses because it hurts the eyes and if I start talking about it, we'll really think I'm stupid and it returns the catalog that begins in the other Sense, The Arab way for the garden. This year I decided to sacrifice the garden for planting perennials for friends, but this part of the catalog Baumal is what really makes this unique brand. They sell things that do not exist in France. I do not describe the 800 fertilizer (OK I exaggerate a little) they have is frightening now they are specific fertilizers for each plant, if this continues there will be weeds. Purpose What is a weed anyway today I ask you.
I found a product called Mascara (well see) that we sulfate on the plants before a big blow in the summer heat, it forms a thin film on the leaves which stops the UV (98,488). Cool! I saw the best garden incinerator ever (77,096) although when we see the model you tell yourself you can do it yourself instead of spending € 30.80 but what a good idea. And from page 270, we enter the world of greenhouses plastoc and all equipment that goes with it amazing what you find plastic bags as these super cute red (77823) for aboveground plant tomatoes (3 for € 20.60), radiators emissions that exist in England and tools such as rare as sickle I have never seen easily for mowing the grass high (78 527) and so many mini-greenhouses apartment asking whether Baumal is not the main friend addicted to ganja.
Then we drowned by hundreds of different salads, vegetables of all colors and all tastes and I do not catch my breath with herbs from the end where there, there really are more choices than everywhere elsewhere. Lots of garlic with a different allium fistulosom Blue (9014), full of chives: Toga, Totem, Staro of lepazotte not to fart in the evening (9104), Chinese leeks (9205) and all of the important medicinal plants Orient that cure everything. A very funny thing: the only plant that is entitled to a full page is Steva rebaudiana is prohibited and the text tells you why laconically (9239) and full of marjoram, thyme and mint (at this stage and all I stabilosse I end up buying anything, as every year).
To summarize: a catalog that is scary! When you make a list of plants that promises to buy Each year we get a total control (though it's cheap) that imposes any bar on the list to take only what is absolutely necessary to cross this cruel cruel world.
Promise of flowers, the new catalog name Schryve is always fascinating. The plants are expensive but there are always specimens not seen elsewhere. And sometimes I buy a single plant in quantity, to try, or to collect seeds and multiply. It is a catalog chabada a bit precious, but a lot of ideas with a clear model as well, because so many references Baumal Christopher Pierson Hamaide once told me he could not find the texts that go with the image, which is TRUE!
So Spring Summer 2011 . The trend is: clematis become barges. For the first time, a white flower with spots of green on Yukiokoshi (681,419) and other clematis for gardener's like I'm swallowed Lady J (681 376) and Dancing Smile (681 373) which gives double flowers if it looks like a dahlia. Echinacea Green Envy A (7443). A perennial geranium double purple Summer Sky (7455) and one that I see for some years and I'm finally going to try, Splish Splash (7240), too cute with white flowers "splashed blue purple." Euphorbia griffithii Fireglow A (7297) with orange flowers "highlighted in olive green foliage tinged with purple, a green arum Goddles tournicoti spiral leaves.
Jacques Briant . Bah, you laugh. Yes it is cheap, but it is always the best catalog when you want to buy multiple copies of a perennial to a mass effect. Initially, it is a catalog of old, to the gardens that win awards in small provincial towns. But! Sometimes you find super showy plants that others dare not sell and flowers nobody offers. And the prices are so low here that you can do something crazy, like buy two bulbs arum psyche with colors like Picasso (4251) or Lavender (4516), the kind of thing that hard in a pot made an amazing place . For example, I think that the lilies are overpriced everywhere, the classic Regale (4593) costs € 8.99 for 3. There is a dahlia flower orchid completely barjo, Honka Surprise (4634) and most of all is delirium Funanbule (4638) with fuchsia petals around a center curved honeycomb. A potato deep blue, Blue d'Artois (4783) and another violet Vitelotte (4802). A wild clematis, Avant Garde (5457), the pinnacle being Viennetta (5460) that looks like a peacock would the wheel. And where to find three phlox € 7.45? Three Helenium Ruby Tuesday for € 8.99? 5 double hollyhocks for € 8.75? I ask you? And 2 blue thistles Alpine Blue Star (5776) that everyone wants for € 6.99? C'mon.
Hortiflor is like a catalog of proles with the tendency to give Christian names to all plants, even those known under the names "normal". But prices are lowest and they also have other plants that do not. For example, they have a perennial Geranium Splish Splash (15 007) cheaper than Schryve, saxifrage, asters, bluebells, the scabious and many other plants as needed enormous cornflower macrocephala (01226) to 2.10 € piece . At this price, it's worth buying a plant that is not known at all to see if it can surprise us and there are Nemes sage whose seeds are easy to sow too. I will not miss a novelty as a Lychnis flos-cuculi Nana (03,004), it's so easy to reseed this stuff! And what a collection of scented pelargonium, 31 in total, with all flavors and shapes, and 27 different mints, all with beautiful fragrances and shapes too. Full of old vegetables as perpetual as the leek (00,925), an onion rocambole (00,923), etc..
I'm not talking here Thierry Denis on which I have already written , but there is one thing that is very interesting The Garden . I have a full case of this review gives me Ray and I am amazed to see the level of sophistication What the English when it comes to the garden. Of course, we see that there is a huge industry, advertising show us tools not found here or downright houses to park his car than I see myself like real houses. But a review hyper-select topics and ecologists are still there are debates in exciting roundtables with experts who say things that even the Greens do not say here, with very political. It's still the Journal of the Royal Society Horticural whatever. More On That Later.
PS: yes, OK, I'll meter hyperlinks to all references here but I'm hungry.
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