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by Diabolorent » 11/06/18, 10:24

What a wealth of colors (and surely scents), it is true that with me it lacks a little color.

I'll have to embellish my garden one of these 4 :o
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by Did67 » 11/06/18, 10:47

At home, honeysuckle is a martyr plant: its first suckers are often covered with aphids (but not this year!).
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by to be chafoin » 11/06/18, 12:01

nico239 wrote:A caterpillar of what?
I don't know


Perhaps the larva of the Little Peacock moth ...
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by Adrien (ex-nico239) » 11/06/18, 12:37

Diabolorent wrote:What a wealth of colors (and surely scents), it is true that with me it lacks a little color.

I'll have to embellish my garden one of these 4 :o


There it is true that the honeysuckle smells.

Otherwise for the rest it is difficult to account for it in a photo.

Since we haven't cut anything for 18 months now, we end up with a carpet in the free portion ... which I compare to the Avatar garden: it's very surprising.

The moss plus the thyme thyme plus tons of grasses, thistles in shambles, other unknown ground covers, clary sage in abundance it makes a funny effect.

And I think it's not over because yesterday I discovered 2 unique and unknown copies ... (photos to come)

Anyway, as soon as we let nature do it ... it becomes divine again

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by Adrien (ex-nico239) » 11/06/18, 12:38

Did67 wrote:At home, honeysuckle is a martyr plant: its first suckers are often covered with aphids (but not this year!).


Is that so? This one was unearthed and taken away during the move and even before I never saw it aphids.

But it must be said that we lived in the middle of the vineyards and that the sulphate plant was running at full speed .... replaced here by the beetles ... phew
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by Adrien (ex-nico239) » 11/06/18, 12:41

to be chafoin wrote:Perhaps the larva of the Little Peacock moth ...


I honestly don't think ...

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I have to plug into a forum insect ...
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by Did67 » 11/06/18, 13:03

nico239 wrote:
Did67 wrote:At home, honeysuckle is a martyr plant: its first suckers are often covered with aphids (but not this year!).


Is that so? This one was unearthed and taken away during the move and even before I never saw it aphids.

But it must be said that we lived in the middle of the vineyards and that the sulphate plant was running at full speed .... replaced here by the beetles ... phew


It's on very young shoots ... But as said, not always. Gray aphids. Not the black ones (which are on elderberries, at the same time; ditto, on the first tender shoots, well before the flowers).
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by Diabolorent » 11/06/18, 16:42

Nico says: If not for the rest it is difficult to account for it in a photo.

No problem, I would pass see take a closer look at one of these four : Wink:
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by to be chafoin » 12/06/18, 00:50

Diabolorent wrote:What a wealth of colors (and surely scents)
Some ideas of colorful flowers (from my garden)
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Evening primrose or "gardeners ham"
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damascus nigella
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by Adrien (ex-nico239) » 12/06/18, 01:09

I need information ... finally those of your experience on these two flowers: sowing, resistance to the cold ... etc

"Spontaneous" - The different stages of a clary sage

before flowering

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flowers appear

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a flower ... heavy that bends the stem (human interpretation) ... unless it is just the natural development of the plant

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then once blooming the stem straightens

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Accommodation
in the background the violets are common vipers (spontaneous of course, there are everywhere) but so decorative: obviously those who mow their lawn will never see them :D

A tuft goes from 1 stem to several on 1m of easy diameter and ditto for the height

The quotes on the spontaneity of these increasingly invasive clary sage refers to its semi-industrial culture which develops on the Valensole plateau which is not so far ...
However we never sowed them, they came out alone last year and even more in number this year

THIS SAYS

They only thrive in the pleasure garden at the moment.

Outside, that is to say at 10m there is hardly any

Why?
How?
Mystery.

I haven't seen one in the valley either.

A seedling of our predecessors ???
That would surprise me the house was abandoned
Completely parched ground
But who knows were they dormant

No idea.

It's very beautiful (from my point of view)
Imposing but not always ...
From 30cm to over 1m high and in circumference.

It resists very well in winter contrary to what we read everywhere.
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