Re: Problem Gardener/dandelions

Hello, Louise;

I've not travelled much, but am an avid collector of garden books, so have
heard of Great Dixter, and must say that I feel better knowing that the
prolific yellow perennial is plentiful in such a place. Someone else on the
list mentioned how the flowers look pretty mingling with forget-me-nots. 

My greatest dream is to be able to some day tour some of the great English
gardens, but it won't happen unless I win the lottery----and all my money
goes to plants, not lottery tickets!

Myrna, Zone 3, Montana

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At 05:22 PM 5/9/99 +0100, you wrote:
>
>I've just been on holiday and I visited one of our more famous gardens at
>Great Dixter.  (I don't know how well known this would be in America.  It's
>often on tv in the UK.)  Although there are more formal areas, there are
>also a lot of meadow plantings all around the garden, with lots of
>dandelions.  However, where the meadow joined more formal areas the
>dandelions continued into the formal bits.  It could just be that they'd
>got behind with their weeding, but it looked deliberate to me and the
>effect was quite charming (but maybe I was just in the mood to be charmed,
>the sun was shining and I was on holiday).  Perhaps the thinking was that a
>dandelion clock doesn't look much different from an Allium globe in shape
>and we love those.
>
>Louise in southern England
>

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