Gravel bed (calendula, gazania, flax)
Calendula officinalis, Gazania and Linum
The remaining flowering patch of the gravelly bed, contents as far as known:
• Calendula (pot marigold): orange flowers with dark red-brown centres
• Gazania: pink-and-white striped petals around a dark ring and yellow centre
• Red flax (likely Linum grandiflorum 'Rubrum'): small magenta flowers
Plan: the bed makes way for a step this winter and will be relocated. Calendula self-seeds freely and seed is easy to save from the dried, curled seed heads. Gazanias are frost-tender, so lift and pot them if you want to keep them.
- Common name
- Gravel bed (calendula, gazania, flax)
- Section
- Beds
- Spot
- Garden
- Soil
- Gravelly garden soil
- From
- Grown on from online plugs, or bought from a local independent garden centre
- Age
- About 1 year (estimate for the bed as a whole)
- Next repot
- tbc
- Edible
- ❌ Nothing on the menu here.
- Garden-centre price
- about £10
Care & updates
- Observation
The last part of the bed still in flower: orange calendulas with dark centres, pink-and-white striped gazanias and a few magenta flax flowers, among a lot of self-sown seedlings and weeds. Bed due to be replaced with a step over winter and relocated.
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