What's coming back

[rary]

I am going to try doing some square foot gardening next year and to commit to it I have been wondering what I would grow in place of veg. with talking to other people and looking in some gardening mags I think that chrisanthemums could be making a comeback, when I was a boy chrisants were the most popular show flower but for a good number of years now dahlias have dominated the show bench so I am going to grow some chrisants again, but it did make me wonder what other things are making a comeback from your childhood, VC and AP, if you are going to contribute to this thread, just go back 60 years so that there may be a chance of some Grapes remembering what you could be referring to

[veggiechicken]

There were no F1 seeds when I were younger, rary, nor fancy ideas like Square foot gardening. My gt gt gt gt etc grandfather bred fuchsias and wrote a book about them in 1843 - maybe you remember them?

[Babru]

I thought square foot gardening was all about veg?!

However I think heathers might be making a bit of a comeback. All the rage in the 70s when I was a child, and been unfashionable for years.

[rary]

The flowers will be growing in the areas that I normally gave over to veg growing, so that if I go with the square foot gardening I won't be tempted to plant in other areas as an insurance that way it should concentrate my efforts more

[rary]

And while on this thread I have the tv on and I see they are bringing back Worzal Gummadge so it's not just in gardening that things are coming back

[Nicos]

Hollyhocks are making a bit of a comeback here. But they are wide plants. Maybe you could find a place right at the back or in a corner?
They flower for months!
They make me think of Beatrix Potter's garden...but I wasn't around when you were a lad rary

[Guest]

I don't want things to come back in to fashion it means they put the price up for no good reason!!!! that and the fact I like to be ruddy awkward and different

In one of my flowery foliage threads lurking somewhere there were loads of things that were deemed old fashioned and undesirable. In regards to flowers my favorite at the moment is the humble carnation. I was naughty yesterday and bought some flowers, the carnations were 10 stems for £1.80. Done the arrangement and my youngest decided they were her favorites and thought they were roses. They look fab and give an instant hit of colour and they should last well to boot. If I pull my finger out next year I will definitely be growing some aswell as old fashioned pinks with there fantastic clove scent.

[veggiechicken]

NG, I bought a bunch of carnations for my Mum a couple of weeks ago, choosing the bunch that had the most slips on it.
The flowers may have been composted but I have 7 well rooted cuttings ready to be potted up - not bad for £2 or whatever i paid for them in Asbos.

[Guest]

NG, I bought a bunch of carnations for my Mum a couple of weeks ago, choosing the bunch that had the most slips on it.
The flowers may have been composted but I have 7 well rooted cuttings ready to be potted up - not bad for £2 or whatever i paid for them in Asbos.

He he! aren't we dreadful..... I just happen to have a few bits of greenery off mine in a pot where I cleaned up the stems

[burnie]

I have a couple of pinks in pots, love the smell of them, too windy here for tall plants like Hollyhocks and sadly old chrysanths, though I'd like to grow a few in the greenhouse if I could get some cuttings, never seen any for sale up here.

[veggiechicken]

Burnie, buy some flowers for Mrs burnie, gain some brownie points and some free cuttings for yourself.
They're in all the supermarkets/shops/garage forecourts at the moment.

[Guest]

^^^Just be aware that there are some nasty dyed ones about.

[veggiechicken]

The ones I bought were white with purple edges to the petals. Very pretty

[burnie]

There's more to growing Chrysanths than I first thought, will have to do some reading, fancy the later pot grown idea I think, found a supplier on the tinternet.

[DannyK]

If it's not too windy there chrysants will give you some late colour.
The OH decided to get a special offer of 10 rooted cuttings at Hampton Court. Muggins lumbered with all aftercare!
7 in flower now in 10" pots. Here's some pictures, they're a bit rain battered.

These were from Chrysanthemums Direct. Remember Woolmans at RHS London who had good displays that needed lots of pinching.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/103667.../shares/p2Hr3F