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Title: Plant associations
Post by: David Bracey on March 11, 2012, 10:05:42 PM
Cali's last post and the recent Southern Californian branch's newsletter suggested a new topic which I have called plant associations.  To me they are plant associations which particularly suit one another for example, Gaura and Perovskia, Gaura and Epilobium canum or Agastache, Senecio serpens and Lantana montevidensis, Nandina domestica an Acca sellowiana.  There are hundreds more which members may like to describe, perhaps month-by-month.
Title: Plant associations - May
Post by: Umbrian on May 29, 2012, 07:02:35 AM
Chelsea time always makes me aware of plant associations and I took the following photos when walking through my garden yesterday. Some are planned but others just happen due to self seeding. Perhaps other members could share their favourite combinations of plants?
Title: Plant associations - May
Post by: Umbrian on May 29, 2012, 07:04:30 AM
More photos as first file too big!
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: Umbrian on May 30, 2012, 07:41:53 AM
I can see that my photos were very poor quality although colour wise I am sure members "got the message" sorry about that.
The first photo was obviously a Kniphofia next to Salvia, the second was Spartium junceum with White Valerian growing through it. this was planned after I admired the wild Spartium around us with Clematis vitalba weaving through it, then there was the Cistus with fortunately placed wild Lotus corniculatus (Bird's-foot trefoil) alongside the yellow flowers enhancing the yellow centres of the Cistus and finally, my favourite, a real miscellany - Erigeron karvanskianus, Convolvulus mauritanicus,Cerinthe, a pink Helianthemum and Nigella damascena all jostling for position near to my back door and a continual source of pleasure.
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: ritamax on May 30, 2012, 10:42:20 AM
Very subtle! Here one bold combination from a park in Spain, bougainvillea with senecio.
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: Daisy on June 07, 2012, 12:27:35 PM
I love your yellow and white, associations and the Erigeron karvanskianis et al, Umbrian.
Ritamax, that is a combination that will knock your socks off!
I have a few I like;

(http://i567.photobucket.com/albums/ss112/daisyincrete/062-2.jpg)
Plumbago capensis and Senecio serpens.

(http://i567.photobucket.com/albums/ss112/daisyincrete/065-3.jpg)
Rose The New Dawn with Clematis viticella Abundance
Sorry, not a very good photo!

(http://i567.photobucket.com/albums/ss112/daisyincrete/006-9.jpg)
Iris ensata Carnival Prince with an unknown lavender.

(http://i567.photobucket.com/albums/ss112/daisyincrete/113-1.jpg)
Foxgloves and roses.

(http://i567.photobucket.com/albums/ss112/daisyincrete/109-1.jpg)
Nicotiana sylvestris with Verbena bonariensis.
Daisy :)
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: Fleur Pavlidis on June 07, 2012, 03:36:56 PM
Planting Nicotiana beside Verbena bonariensis is a brainwave. They're both rather gawky by  themselves but together ... they make a great pair. How on earth do you get foxgloves to grow? Did you do them from seed?
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: Jill S on June 07, 2012, 05:03:20 PM
Daisy, looks beautiful as per always, but what is your secret? a watering regime? or do you rely upon shade, a good mulch and positioning to catch any breeze available? how do you have what looks like an English woodland combination in a cretan summer??
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: Daisy on June 08, 2012, 12:57:46 PM
Fleur, Those nicotiana and verbena are over 2 metres tall! I think they would look gawky by themselves, but luckily don't when together. Also, when it is windy, they hold each other up.
I sowed the nicotiana, but the Verbena bonariensis sowed itself  ;D
I wasn't sure that the foxgloves would like it here in Crete, so I only sowed a few and put those in shade, mainly under two apricot trees. They have been fine, so I will try some more next year.

Jills, I have a very small garden. Small enough to water by hand, which I do fortnightly in the summer.
It is still quite young. Nothing has been planted more than two and a half years. Next year I will try watering once every three weeks, apart from any new plantings, and see how that goes.
I do have in the garden a few fruit trees, which are very useful shade for some plants. The trouble is, I am very greedy ::) ::) ::) and have already run out of space.

Here are a few more combinations that I like.

(http://i567.photobucket.com/albums/ss112/daisyincrete/059-3.jpg)

(http://i567.photobucket.com/albums/ss112/daisyincrete/045-2.jpg)

Dahlia Arabian Nights and Rose Teasing Georgia have a similar flower shape, but I like them together.

(http://i567.photobucket.com/albums/ss112/daisyincrete/066-3.jpg)

Nepeta tuberosa with an ivy leaved pelargonium.

(http://i567.photobucket.com/albums/ss112/daisyincrete/083-3.jpg)

Rose William Shakespeare 2000 with Verbena x hybrida, a pink petunia, Nemesia denticulata Confetti. Lychnis coronaria and Rehmannia elata.

(http://i567.photobucket.com/albums/ss112/daisyincrete/110.jpg)

Pansy Padparadja being overtaken by Felicia amelloides.

(http://i567.photobucket.com/albums/ss112/daisyincrete/051-2.jpg)

Felicia amelloides and Erysimum Apricot Twist.

(http://i567.photobucket.com/albums/ss112/daisyincrete/072-3.jpg)

Nepeta Walkers Low with Alstromeria Polka and Phormium Jester.

Daisy :)
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: Jill S on June 08, 2012, 01:53:36 PM
Daisy, ooohh, at a guess I'd say you've got the sweety-shop syndrome, but the way the hundreds and thousands are put together is something else. Don't stop experimenting with what you can get away with and giving us the pics. Really look forward to them!! Jill
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: Daisy on June 10, 2012, 09:26:37 AM
Jill, you are so right, I definitely have sweety shop syndrome.
But what is one to do? So little space and so many yummy plants ::) ::) ::)
Daisy :)

Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: Alisdair on June 20, 2012, 09:27:03 AM
(With Helena looking over my shoulder with lots of ooos and aahhs...) Daisy, what a miracle, coaxing all that growth and luxurious colourful beauty out of hot dry Eastern Crete! And really inspiring colour/shape combinations!
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: ritamax on June 20, 2012, 10:51:01 AM
Fantastic! Perhaps it the lushness has to do with the fact, that your garden faces northwest? 
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: Bolanthus on June 27, 2012, 03:25:21 PM
So so beautiful! And I would have never imagined L. coronaria to look so gorgeous next to a rose!!
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: ritamax on June 29, 2012, 12:40:18 PM
Nice blog, Bolanthus!!!
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: Bolanthus on June 29, 2012, 11:44:21 PM
Thanks  ;D ;D
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: John on July 07, 2012, 10:25:45 PM
I had the privilege of visiting Daisy's garden this spring and saw some of these plants in flower then. Along with the others with me we had a lovely couple of hours seeing the garden and sitting in what seemed to be a quite sheltered location with a view down to the sea. Thanks again.
The Lavandula is L. dentata by the way.
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: John on July 07, 2012, 10:33:16 PM
Regarding Digitalis purpurea. This is a species native to a wide range of Europe including Madeira where it could vaguely be considered at least bordering the Mediterranean as much of Macronesia is included in the Mediterranean. Though I have to admit there is a considerable difference between the climate of Madeira and eastern Crete!
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: Spark on July 11, 2012, 02:08:38 PM
This is the first time I post in the forum (sorry for my English).
Associations plant is one of my favourite practice.
Let me show you one of my experience

The Fairy roses with Convolvulus cneorum
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: Umbrian on July 11, 2012, 04:37:13 PM
 :)Lovely! welcome and don't worry about your English - gardeners have a way of understanding each other I think!
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: Alisdair on July 11, 2012, 06:49:23 PM
How beautifully they go together, Spark - and welcome! As Umbrian says, gardeners always understand other gardeners  :)
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: MikeHardman on July 11, 2012, 09:08:29 PM
Welcome Spark. That works a treat!

Please (if you don't mind) put your location(s) in your 'signature'; knowing where you garden really makes a difference to our understanding and interpretation of your posts. Thank you.
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: ritamax on August 14, 2012, 11:40:02 AM
A very nice combination I saw in a park in Perpignan!
Title: Re: Plant associations - Lantana camara and Plumbago auriculata
Post by: MikeHardman on August 14, 2012, 09:46:01 PM
Here's a yellow Lantana camara and pale blue Plumbago auriculata growing amicably together in my garden. While they are very different colours, there is something sympathetic about them that I like.
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: Umbrian on August 15, 2012, 07:33:48 AM
Lovely Mike, I particularly like yellow and white combinations. This year I set a large planter with Lantana and Bidens. The Lantana is still going strong but the bidens surprisingle has rather given up the ghost. It is a larger flowered variety to the one I normally use and doesn't seem to have the same staying power. ???
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: David Bracey on August 15, 2012, 03:26:54 PM
I  think that yellow is one of the most difficult colours. White, yes but other colours uggggggggggh.  It is a real mediterranean colour and plants well with other yellow hues and oranges but to my mind , not much else.
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: JTh on August 15, 2012, 08:28:24 PM
I agree with you, yellow is the most difficult colour in the garden, and not among my favourites.
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: ritamax on August 15, 2012, 10:03:52 PM
I didn't like yellow at all, but my husband keeps on insisting on yellow flowers, and they can really brighten up many corners. And yellows do go well with oranges, reds and browns! And pollinators like yellow, too!
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: Umbrian on August 16, 2012, 06:34:21 AM
Colour associations are really a matter of personal taste and what is beautiful to one eye can be jarring to another. I love yellow flowers - for me they are "happy"  ;D and brighten both my spirits and areas that otherwise would be subdued. Yellow and purple work well I think (think of the yellow centres of purple solanum for example). Also many yellow subjects are, to put it in simple terms, members of the "daisy" family and their form also makes me think of happy smiling faces. This year a self sown, 7/8ft multi branched sunflower is brightening up the approach to our swimming pool and never fails to make me smile when I pass it especially when most of the subjects around it are getting browner by the day due to lack of rain and searing temperatures.
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: Alice on August 16, 2012, 03:08:39 PM
I agree with you, Umbrian. Yellow is a bright happy colour and I find it combines well with most colours apart from the pink hues. And, as you say, it is a matter of personal taste. De gustibus et coloribus non disputandum est.
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: Daisy on September 01, 2012, 08:13:31 AM
Here are a few more associations I like.

(http://i567.photobucket.com/albums/ss112/daisyincrete/047-2.jpg)

(http://i567.photobucket.com/albums/ss112/daisyincrete/sept1020.jpg)

A young Sedum telephium atropurpureum with petunias, a few weeks ago and this morning.

(http://i567.photobucket.com/albums/ss112/daisyincrete/sept1003.jpg)

(http://i567.photobucket.com/albums/ss112/daisyincrete/sept1004.jpg)

Verbena x hybrida and a purple sage.

(http://i567.photobucket.com/albums/ss112/daisyincrete/sept1001.jpg)

Tradescantia pallida purpurea with a scarlet pelargonium.

(http://i567.photobucket.com/albums/ss112/daisyincrete/sept1025.jpg)

Orange flowers from an unknown succulent in front of a terracotta pot.

(http://i567.photobucket.com/albums/ss112/daisyincrete/sept1006.jpg)

(http://i567.photobucket.com/albums/ss112/daisyincrete/sept1008.jpg)

Bright coloured petunias growing through Dichondra Silver Falls

Daisy :)
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: ritamax on September 01, 2012, 04:35:24 PM
Beautiful, Daisy, wonderful colours!!!
The unknown succulent is Echeveria secunda. Oron recognized it for me a while ago in the Plant identifications' section.
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: Daisy on September 06, 2012, 08:05:03 AM
Thanks ritamax. I guessed it was an Echeveria, but wasn't sure which one.
Daisy :)
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: Umbrian on September 21, 2012, 06:49:03 AM
For the first time since I planted them, quite a few years ago, my Sedum spectabile have performed well this year, one plant spreading and growing through a nearby Caryopteris and making a lovey combination of colours and form. :) I have always considered that patience is a necessary virtue in a gardener and in this case have been rewarded. Many a time I have been tempted to get rid of the Sedums as they looked so sickly but now they have come up trumps for me ;D
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: Fleur Pavlidis on September 21, 2012, 08:56:03 AM
What a lovely colour combination. My Sedum spectabile has always been chewed to the stem, I think by little snails, and the coffee grout remedy didn't work at protecting it. I wonder if growing it through something strong smelling might be the answer.
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: Jill S on September 21, 2012, 09:56:21 AM
Might not be snails. All my sedums here in the UK are a fav food item for my grazing tortoise, they get chomped to the ground and never get much chance to flower. I think the only answer for me is to pot them out of his reach, but being really lazy that hasn't happened. Yet!
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: Daisy on September 26, 2012, 09:10:28 AM
That is a beautiful combination Umbrian.
My Sedum spectabile has a, now, sparse flowering Gaura lindheimeri behind it. I wish I had given it a Chelsea chop earlier in the season. It would look a lot better now.
One elsewhere in the garden, that I did chop back earlier in the season, has responded brilliantly.
My sedums, are ignored by the snails. In fact there are a few young seedlings turned up too.
Daisy :)
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: Fleur Pavlidis on September 26, 2012, 08:43:26 PM
You may well be right, Jill. I do often see tortoises in that part of the garden, click clacking along the cement road. I thought they were on the way to the fallen figs, but the sedum could be a tasty raodside snack.
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: Umbrian on September 27, 2012, 03:57:47 PM
What a difference rain can make after long weeks of drought. My Salvia microphylla and Ceratostigma plumbaginoides ( amongst other things) have suddenly recovered themselves in flowers reminding me how beautiful a Mediterranean garden can be in the autumn. Here a red salvia with the Ceratostigma, Nearby I have a deep pink salvia with prostrate rosemary in flower beneath it .
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: Daisy on May 23, 2013, 02:33:52 PM
Here are a few more associations in my garden.

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8387/8682751053_6532fe9a42_c.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/93752583@N02/8682751053/)
april 2013 112 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/93752583@N02/8682751053/) by Daisyincrete (http://www.flickr.com/people/93752583@N02/), on Flickr
Oranges and orange abutilon.

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8126/8683845098_f5452cf4fa_c.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/93752583@N02/8683845098/)
april 2013 127 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/93752583@N02/8683845098/) by Daisyincrete (http://www.flickr.com/people/93752583@N02/), on Flickr
Rose Golden Celebration and a callistemon

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8265/8682740519_94b8203ef7_c.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/93752583@N02/8682740519/)
april 2013 120 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/93752583@N02/8682740519/) by Daisyincrete (http://www.flickr.com/people/93752583@N02/), on Flickr
Salvia and an argyranthemum.

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7422/8716411423_022a28f5cc_c.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/93752583@N02/8716411423/)
april-may 2013 037 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/93752583@N02/8716411423/) by Daisyincrete (http://www.flickr.com/people/93752583@N02/), on Flickr
Rose Colombian Climber and an ivy-leaf pelargonium.

(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3807/8800985764_778389b038_c.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/93752583@N02/8800985764/)
may 2013 008 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/93752583@N02/8800985764/) by Daisyincrete (http://www.flickr.com/people/93752583@N02/), on Flickr
Miscanthus sinensis Morning Light with Nigella damascena.

(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3671/8800913398_15d0acdd12_c.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/93752583@N02/8800913398/)
may 2013 029 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/93752583@N02/8800913398/) by Daisyincrete (http://www.flickr.com/people/93752583@N02/), on Flickr
Iris louisiana Black Gamecock and Convolvulus sabatius.

(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5456/8790288061_d025abd5b8_c.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/93752583@N02/8790288061/)
may 2013 036 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/93752583@N02/8790288061/) by Daisyincrete (http://www.flickr.com/people/93752583@N02/), on Flickr
An unintended association. Lychnis coronaria and Geum Mrs Bradshaw.
Doesn't it make your eyes hurt!

(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3705/8789785499_19ccf5f4e6_c.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/93752583@N02/8789785499/)
may 2013 153 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/93752583@N02/8789785499/) by Daisyincrete (http://www.flickr.com/people/93752583@N02/), on Flickr
Argyranthemum Jamaica Primrose with Miscanthus Cosmopolitan.
Daisy :)
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: Daisy on July 12, 2013, 01:49:33 PM
(http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2858/9090583903_9edb5b30e0_c.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/93752583@N02/9090583903/)
015 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/93752583@N02/9090583903/) by Daisyincrete (http://www.flickr.com/people/93752583@N02/), on Flickr

I like these two soft blues together; Convolvulus mauritanicus and Lavendula dentata.
There are a few deep blue petunias further along too, shown in this earlier photo.

(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5452/9084303128_ced9195718_c.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/93752583@N02/9084303128/)
 2013 073 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/93752583@N02/9084303128/) by Daisyincrete (http://www.flickr.com/people/93752583@N02/), on Flickr

(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5550/9084294632_801b52f030_c.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/93752583@N02/9084294632/)
 2013 076 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/93752583@N02/9084294632/) by Daisyincrete (http://www.flickr.com/people/93752583@N02/), on Flickr

More soft colours together, pink this time. Rose Blush Noisette with an argyranthemum.

(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3726/9206372087_11cdbf8482_c.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/93752583@N02/9206372087/)
july 2013 038 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/93752583@N02/9206372087/) by Daisyincrete (http://www.flickr.com/people/93752583@N02/), on Flickr

This Fuchsia triphylla or hybrid was given to me as a cutting by a neighbour. It has flowered continuously since 2011. This year, it has a self sown verbascum as company.

(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5481/9268073210_b24b4773bc_c.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/93752583@N02/9268073210/)
048 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/93752583@N02/9268073210/) by Daisyincrete (http://www.flickr.com/people/93752583@N02/), on Flickr

I posted a photo of these cosmos under the annuals heading, but as a plant association, I love these two together.

(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5519/9209236914_f632f1b758_c.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/93752583@N02/9209236914/)
july 2013 058 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/93752583@N02/9209236914/) by Daisyincrete (http://www.flickr.com/people/93752583@N02/), on Flickr

Dahlia Arabian Nights with Crocosmia Lucifer.
These two are blooming together now. They are next to Rose Lady Emma Hamilton which also goes well with them. But I cannot get a photo of all three together, without standing in the bed and becoming a contortionist! :o :o :o
Daisy :)
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: KatG on November 27, 2013, 06:15:35 PM
Hasn't been much action on the topic for a while, but here's a selection of miscellaneous plant combinations.
Apropos yellow - it works pretty well in nature! I think the trick is to balance it with greys and greens.
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: Fleur Pavlidis on November 28, 2013, 09:08:23 PM
Lovely plantings and marvellous rocks.
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: KatG on December 01, 2013, 05:29:33 PM
Nobody has pointed out the mistake in picture no. 5 - it should be Phlomis and Iris.
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: JTh on December 01, 2013, 08:40:20 PM
Which shows that we see what we believe we see, which was what you told us.
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: Daisy on December 05, 2013, 02:23:00 PM
Lovely combinations. I particularly like the Felicia and Euphorbia together.
Daisy :)
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: Daisy on December 06, 2013, 07:54:33 AM
I took this photo yesterday. It was a very dark, overcast, dreary, December day, but these two plants seemed to glow in the gloom.
Brugmansia Berkonigin and Cestrum elegans I believe.
Daisy :)

(http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2819/11220367343_7f3af777f9_c.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/93752583@N02/11220367343/)
016 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/93752583@N02/11220367343/) by Daisyincrete (http://www.flickr.com/people/93752583@N02/), on Flickr

(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3810/11219845114_17416979f5_c.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/93752583@N02/11219845114/)
004 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/93752583@N02/11219845114/) by Daisyincrete (http://www.flickr.com/people/93752583@N02/), on Flickr

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7387/11220262594_da977fca88_c.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/93752583@N02/11220262594/)
018 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/93752583@N02/11220262594/) by Daisyincrete (http://www.flickr.com/people/93752583@N02/), on Flickr


 
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: Daisy on April 16, 2014, 05:21:30 PM
Here is an unplanned combination.
Lobelia laxiflora angustifolia growing through an ivy-leaved pelargonium.
Or vice versa, I'm not sure which.

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7446/13888590675_bb8816c0db_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nahE8V) (https://flic.kr/p/nahE8V)   (https://www.flickr.com/people/93752583@N02/)

Tulipa chrysantha family with Felicia amelloides.

(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2910/13733202134_045d98f930_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/mVyfx9) (https://flic.kr/p/mVyfx9)  (https://www.flickr.com/people/93752583@N02/)

Early this morning I was sitting looking at a Covolvulous cneorum and noticed that the flush of colour on the backs of the petals seemed to pick up the colour of whichever plant they were next to.

(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3668/13889003374_99950ab4eb_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/najLPq) (https://flic.kr/p/najLPq)   (https://www.flickr.com/people/93752583@N02/)

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7155/13888681963_f3e7db4628_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nai8gR) (https://flic.kr/p/nai8gR)   (https://www.flickr.com/people/93752583@N02/)

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7204/13888619055_c6e74c4a75_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nahNze) (https://flic.kr/p/nahNze)  (https://www.flickr.com/people/93752583@N02/)

Do you see what I mean?
Daisy :)
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: Hilary on April 17, 2014, 05:10:48 PM
What colour in your garden, lovely
You have also helped me name a flower photo  I had waiting in a queue.
Convolvulus cneorum.
I saw it growing in an untended flower bed in the pedestrian precinct here in Corinth.
No care at all and only watered when it rains
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: Daisy on April 18, 2014, 10:12:38 AM
Hilary, Convolvulous cneorum is easy-peasy. As long as it has some sunshine it is happy. It would do well in a pot on your balcony.
Daisy :)
Title: Re: Convolvulus cneorum
Post by: Alisdair on April 18, 2014, 06:52:16 PM
Here it is flowering at the MGS garden at Sparoza, on a hot sunny bank. Photo taken this last Tuesday:
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: Daisy on April 26, 2014, 08:26:30 AM
Wine red Verbena x hybrida with rose Perdita.
Daisy :)

(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2916/14024391203_b5e6faf581_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nnhEUk) (https://flic.kr/p/nnhEUk)   (https://www.flickr.com/people/93752583@N02/)
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: Daisy on September 17, 2015, 09:57:53 AM
Here are a few more photos that I took yesterday, in the jungle!

Sedum i forget and a cerise pelargonium with a dark pink Salvia behind.

(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5652/21298745250_48e674cbae_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/ys6CVG)IMG_4264 (https://flic.kr/p/ys6CVG) by Daisyincrete (https://www.flickr.com/photos/93752583@N02/), on Flickr

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/754/20865709313_bae019f3ec_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/xMQdqR)IMG_4262 (https://flic.kr/p/xMQdqR) by Daisyincrete (https://www.flickr.com/photos/93752583@N02/), on Flickr

A lantana engulfing an Aeonium arboreum.

(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5816/21475735462_fcc6805e8c_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/yHJKX5)IMG_4266 (https://flic.kr/p/yHJKX5) by Daisyincrete (https://www.flickr.com/photos/93752583@N02/), on Flickr

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/767/20865697893_465bbceeec_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/xMQa2X)IMG_4265 (https://flic.kr/p/xMQa2X) by Daisyincrete (https://www.flickr.com/photos/93752583@N02/), on Flickr

Daisy :)
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: Caroline on September 19, 2015, 01:21:00 AM
"Spring Green" tulips growing in an old copper, surrounded by Euphorbia characias.  I can not claim any credit for this combination, since the Euphorbia are self-sown; I didn't have the heart to pull them out of the gravel when they looked so healthy!
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: Daisy on September 24, 2015, 03:11:41 PM
That is a very elegant combination Caroline and I envy you that beautiful old copper.
Daisy :)
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: Alevin on October 01, 2015, 09:14:06 AM
Daisy, where did you find Brugmansia Berkonigin? Was it in Italy? I am looking for it...
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: Daisy on October 04, 2015, 08:14:04 AM
Sorry for the delay in answering your question Alevin. I have only just seen it.
I got my brugsmansias from England, from a very helpful Italian gentleman, Luigi Valducci. He doesn't have a web site, but sent me a list of his brugmansias.
He packed them beautifully and they arrived in really good condition.
His e-mail address is, valducci@uwclub.net
Hope this helps.
Daisy :)
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: Fermi on March 08, 2016, 12:45:42 AM
I love the way these flowers blend in: the pink of the indigofera pseudotinctoria, the blue penstemon and the mauve nepeta,
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: Charithea on March 08, 2016, 05:39:33 AM
Beautiful combination
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: Umbrian on April 03, 2016, 07:23:36 AM
Sorry I do not have a 'photo to illustrate this suggestion but am currently experiencing problems with my Photogene Ap regarding reducing files........However as I have been working in the garden this week I have been struck by how beautiful the now flowering Euphorbia characias look together with Rosemary.
Since the Euphorbia self seed prolifically many of them, that have escaped my notice as small plants, are right in amongst the sprawling Rosemary bushes ( also in flower) and the effect, from two easy to grow plants, is stunning.
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: Pallas on April 03, 2016, 10:57:47 AM
Agave attenuata and Aloe vera (2 April 2016).
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: John J on April 10, 2016, 12:46:05 PM
Self-sown Centranthus ruber with Lavandula dentata.
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: Fermi on November 11, 2016, 02:55:50 PM
I love the way these flowers blend in: the pink of the indigofera pseudotinctoria, the blue penstemon and the mauve nepeta,

The blue penstemon is in flower this season a lot earlier than the indigofera it was paired with last summer.
However the silvery foliage of the Zauschneria (Epilobium) canum 'Catalina' is an excellent foil for it and a yellow Onosma,
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: Plant associations
Post by: Fleur Pavlidis on November 13, 2016, 11:05:13 AM
They do look lovely together, Fermi, but I wonder why someone would want to breed a Epilobium which wasn't bright orange!