BEGONIA AND LOBELIA TROUGH
I am really pleased with the result of the two troughs under my kitchen window. Because there is a water tap there, and the wastepipe from my kitchen sink, I couldnt put a full, long trough along there. I wanted to try and planted it so that it looked like one long trough and I think I succeeded.
On thing I have noticed in the troughs and in the hanging baskets too is that lobelia has dominated the bacopa plants. In the troughs you can just see a bacop jutting up on the top left of the photograph (click on the image to enlarge it). It's as if lobelia are far more vigorous. What is so strange is that late last autumn, long after the lobelia had died back, the bacopa were still flowering. I wonder what will happen this year.
You know, the lobelias I bought were supposed to be all white. I bought them from a charity nursery for the disabled and it looks like some of the staff managed to get a few blue seeds in by accident. No matter, I think that the dashes of blue look quite pretty.
On thing I have noticed in the troughs and in the hanging baskets too is that lobelia has dominated the bacopa plants. In the troughs you can just see a bacop jutting up on the top left of the photograph (click on the image to enlarge it). It's as if lobelia are far more vigorous. What is so strange is that late last autumn, long after the lobelia had died back, the bacopa were still flowering. I wonder what will happen this year.
You know, the lobelias I bought were supposed to be all white. I bought them from a charity nursery for the disabled and it looks like some of the staff managed to get a few blue seeds in by accident. No matter, I think that the dashes of blue look quite pretty.