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Accent of the Day – Hosta

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Accent of the Day – Icelandic Poppy

A young plant but if it likes the pot, it should make a nice accent in future years.

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Accent of the day – Sisyrinchium

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Accent of the Day – Kusamono

A mixture of hosta, aqualegia, sisyrinchium and that yellow exploding seed pod one that I can’t remember the name of! Even a bit of mud rock in there too. I hope to create a lot more mixed planting for next year. Up until now I have tended to keep my accents to one variety per pot but I am loving the added interest in mixed plantings  or kusamono. At least I should have plenty to play with 😉

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Splitting Up

No, not my marriage!! Never happen, just my hostas and other accents. After chatting to Ian up at Bali Hai and finding out that it’s fine to split hostas at this time of year, I have made the most of my new arrivals.

Accent of the Day – Allium

Anybody know the name of this Allium?

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Accent of the Day – Mukdenia rossii

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Accent of the Day – Dwarf Astilbe

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Accent of the Day – Saxafraga Mt Nachi

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Bali Hai Haul

As promised, this is the haul of plants that I got yesterday at Bali Hai Nursery. Mostly Hosta and Rhodohypoxis, but a few other oddities thrown in as well. You will notice one that is rather large for an accent, that’s going below my display bench, I just couldn’t resist the leaf colour.

Interesting comment that now is actually a good time to split hostas. Stephen and I always did this in Spring as growth emerges although that is seemingly a good time to trim the roots on hostas to keep them small leafed.