lol, thought that might get you excited. Blue Angel is no good for me. The whole area is very much meant to be white and green tones, with any variation on white flowers leaning towards yellows, so I avoid Blue/Orange/Red there where possible. There are inevitably some self sown invaders but i often move them elsewhere if I can. Sum and Substance looks nice, think a few along the bank at the back would be ideal to hide the stepping stone logs I have there, and then could do with maybe a couple of smaller ones along the pond edges.
The deer cant get in luckily, its children, rabbits (and the dog trying to dig up rabbits), chickens and moles, in that order that are my main problem! The children are moving down the list as they are getting older, but the rabbits are more than making up for it!
This is more how it looks when spring has finally sprung and moved into summer. The pond is now to the left of the tree on the left. I’m gradually clearing out the colours. Some pinks sneak in from the wildflower area, and I’m always loathe to take foxgloves out as I love them, but I’ve added lots more white for later on this year as it had mainly gone by mid summer. So trying to keep to that palette. I like to think of it as ‘naturalistic’, others may have another word for it
https://www.hostaparadise.com/Hostasearch.aspx Have a look here to find something you'd like. Put in colour, size etc as you'd like. They have a massive , 3.500 catalogue, but you should find something you can get here in UK.
Only 3,500? Hardly worth the effort Lol, thanks, just what I need this week, more shopping for the garden.... Must be restrained. Must be restrained. Must be....
Now THAT is my kind of garden!!! Fab! I stay away from GCs as I'm not fit to be let out and when I say "I need to be restrained..." there's a likelihood I'll end up tied up in the boot!!!! @Hostafan1 stop talking please. Pleeease! I don't need any more websites.
Lee ... IME Sum & Substance needs a fair bit of sun in order to keep it's gorgeous yellow/green colour ... in the shade of our ash tree it reverts to a rather nondescript mid-green ... in fact since visiting Hosta's garden I've learned to be brave and place most of our hostas where they get quite a bit of sun ... as long as their feet are damp they're perfectly happy and if they get the sunlight the leaf colours are just wonderful.
One of my favourites is H. Stained Glass ... we bought it from Burncoose nurseries down in Cornwall and brought it back up here, but we didn't give it enough sunlight and it lost its beautiful markings. Now I know better and it's in full sunshine for most of the day, but in very damp soil ... and it's as good as this picture every year now. https://www.nhhostas.com/stained-glass-hosta-4-5-inch-container/
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Sum and Substance looks nice, think a few along the bank at the back would be ideal to hide the stepping stone logs I have there, and then could do with maybe a couple of smaller ones along the pond edges.
Have a look here to find something you'd like. Put in colour, size etc as you'd like.
They have a massive , 3.500 catalogue, but you should find something you can get here in UK.
I stay away from GCs as I'm not fit to be let out and when I say "I need to be restrained..." there's a likelihood I'll end up tied up in the boot!!!!
@Hostafan1 stop talking please. Pleeease! I don't need any more websites.
One of my favourites is H. Stained Glass ... we bought it from Burncoose nurseries down in Cornwall and brought it back up here, but we didn't give it enough sunlight and it lost its beautiful markings. Now I know better and it's in full sunshine for most of the day, but in very damp soil ... and it's as good as this picture every year now.
https://www.nhhostas.com/stained-glass-hosta-4-5-inch-container/
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.