"Must Have" plant list - what's on yours?

angieh · 01-07-2008, 11:01 PM

I am going to have a real clear out this autumn in the garden and am thinking about what I want to plant in place of some failing bits and bobs. I went to Osborne House on the Isle of Wight a couple of weeks ago and found this rose in the walled garden. It has a FABULOUS perfume, so it's the first plant on my "Must Have" list.

Rosa Honorine de Brabant

Moli · 01-07-2008, 11:41 PM

One thing I have always wanted is a Monkey Puzzle Tree....

dandysmom · 02-07-2008, 02:40 AM

Stunning rose, Angie: are you interested in old/historic roses? That's a lovely fragrant Bourbon. Is it the fragrance or the stripes that interest you? I put in a small Variegata di Bologna this Spring; unfortunately it didn't flower this season (not remontant!) Two other lovely striped oldies are Rosa Mundi and York and Lancaster. Hey, that would have been a good quiz question: what rose is named after an English civil war?

To get back to topic, Ruellia (Wild petunia) and Geum Mrs Bradshaw are on my must-have list......

angieh · 02-07-2008, 10:16 AM

It's the perfume really Eileen - in the walled garden where I found it, I had walked past it and then caught the scent and had to go back and find out where it was coming from! I just love that sort of moment - and holding the flower to your nose and just breathing it in. Have to say my honeysuckle is particularly good this year.

I'm going to look up Ruellia and Geum Mrs Bradshaw to see what they look like. I love the Internet for that sort of thing.

dandysmom · 02-07-2008, 04:01 PM

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Originally Posted by angieh

It's the perfume really Eileen - in the walled garden where I found it, I had walked past it and then caught the scent and had to go back and find out where it was coming from! I just love that sort of moment - and holding the flower to your nose and just breathing it in. Have to say my honeysuckle is particularly good this year.

I'm going to look up Ruellia and Geum Mrs Bradshaw to see what they look like. I love the Internet for that sort of thing.

If you haven't Goodled yet here;s a link to my Ruellia post here:

http://www.catsey.com/showthread.php...hlight=ruellia

I like fragrant plants also; moonvine is lovely and also night blooming cereus.

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