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Need something for border
pottering girl
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Hi
Can I pick your brains. I have a new garden that I have designed. My borders are pink, white and blue. Plants chosen are roses, lavender, phlox, hydrangea, bowles mauve, sedum edged with box. Soil type very fertile leaning towards clay. Looking to add some plants between the colours possibly lime coloured.... Liked the look of eurphorbia wulfeni but I don't think the soil would suit. Any ideas for me to take a look at would be appreciated? Did use alchemelia once but it grew everywhere including under my stone path.
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How about Euphorbia epithymoides? Rather more compact than E, wulfenii. I have one growing in partial shade on clay and it's very happy. (To the point it's self seeding - not prolifically, but I have 3 or 4 new ones now).
Marjoram is another one that seems willing to grow in places 'the book' might suggest it wouldn't - that comes in some fairly vivid shades of green, if not quite lime.
And then you could always go for chrysanthemum 'froggy' or 'jade green' as a summer perennial - they need winter protection but you can grow them in a big pot or lift them in autumn and bring them indoors. Or annuals like zinnia or nicotiana can give you that lime green 'hit'.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
In such a cottagey type garden, I like the use of Ruta graveolens 'Jackman's Blue', which associates well these this type of planting. The foliage is bluey, but the flowers are lime/yellow type..
You might also like Euphorbia martinii, Fuchsia 'Genii' which has lime green foliage all the season, or an ornamental grass called Hakonechloa macra 'Aureola'.. all these will grow in your conditions..
Let me see if I have some photos..
E. martinii
H. macra 'Aureola'
F. 'Genii' in April
happy choosing..
Thank you some really good ideas here. Particularly like the look of Euphorbia epithymoides and Jackman's blue. Thanks for the photos also, you have a lovely well through through border in that last image.
How about some of the lime green heucheras? They won't self seed but might not take full sun.
Not strictly lime-green , but quite an attractive yellow leaved shrub in its own right , Leycesteria formosa 'Golden Lanterns' ; mine has flowered (red) all winter and looks good even now .
Gives some height if required !
Thanks all. Plenty for me to choose from here.
I have gone for the Euphorbia x martinii Tiny Tim. Thanks for the suggestions.