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    Ok ...so I can grow daffs and sunflowers with slug control...what should I try this year as a cut flower??...(sweet peas were covered in greenfly and beetles last year!!) need to be able to be neglected for 1-2 weeks at a time!! (peat soil)
    "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

    Location....Normandy France

  • #2
    I grew a whole selection of stuff including:

    Cornflower
    Statice
    Sweet William
    Sweet Pea
    Aster
    Echinacia
    Anenome
    Dahlia
    Chrysanthemum
    Tulip
    Sun Flower
    Pink
    Delphinium
    Fresia

    The easiest are without doubt sweet william, pinks, statice and cornflower. They need little attention and flower over a long period. Also you can dry both the statice and cornflower so they last very well in the house, 2 years!

    HTH

    Jerry
    Holidays in Devon

    http://www.crablakefarm.co.uk/

    My Allotment Blog

    http://sandersj89allotment.blogspot.com/

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    • #3
      We grow the sweet peas in the garden - up the side of the greenhouse. At the allotment chrysanthemums and spray chrysanthemums which last for ever as a cut flower. Asters and sweet williams. This year we are also growing gladioli, dahlias, pinks and echinacea. So it should be nice and colourful.
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      • #4
        I've always liked whire cosmos and sunflowers on the allotment. Cosmos just keep flowering all summer and well into autumn.
        Best wishes
        Andrewo
        Harbinger of Rhubarb tales

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