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Growing in pots outside looks simple enough, but  it turns out  it isn’t all that easy to keep a good shape.

Perhaps you should keep the pots turned half way round every three days? But what if the sun shines for the first three and not for the next three?

Val’s Primula viallii might be a good example of a general rule that  the younger components  will be  more flexible, so more responsive to directional pull towards the source of prevailing light.

But is that really the way things are? By the time the violet parts were half  “over”, the two stems  were so entwined that we couldn’t be sure the straight one hadn’t done a bit of the tangling itself.

Space for your thoughts: -

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14  August 2020

 30/07/2020 / Liam Greene / Viewing Points

“A little bit of Australia in Derry.”

A “Bottlebrush” (Callistemon).

  4 June ‘20

“The last ‘dwarf ‘  Azalea of the 2020 season.  I am not sure if I sent these photos before, I thought some might like them.”

 What a difference a point of view makes: and these are both very impressive.

Ed.     .

  8 May ‘20

Here, above, we show the red Japanese Azalea bush made of several plants again, this time in a distinctly oriental setting.

There is a fine Blue Cedar at the corner of approach to the property:  it looks its best from across the roads. Looking from there, you might not notice that the neat boundary hedge is behind the trunk of the tree although the wall is in front of the trunk.

          Recent removal of much of an older hedge growing just inside the wall has certainly  allowed a greater left view to any driver approaching  the T-junction.

“I got some topsoil delivered in these large bags - left right where I am going to use it.” Doesn’t that confirm what we have all been thinking - that Liam Greene gets things done?

 13/08/2020 / Syd Harrod / Puzzling Sights:

I think the mopheads of our white Hydrangea (thought to be Mme E. Mouillere) used to go brown in old age, perhaps after a slight pinking in a very “good” year. So what would you make of the behaviour of this imported and  superb 30th wedding anniversary present?

It’s now past time when the heads should be cut off, to let the plant grow strong enough for re-potting before winter.  We have the great big pot for it already, but we need to get gravel for the drainage of it.