Wild edges.....I've never seen them growing wild here,but have in Scotland,along with masses of Kniphofia on the west coast. I must get out more ! Loads of Strawberries down the lane though!
The whole truth is an instrument that can only be played by an expert.
Hemerocallis, it just doesn't flower for me , I give them potash this year and a bit of tomato food to try and help them flower. Hosta in the ground are a problem with slug damage. I got a pink astible which is a total thug, nice but a thug. I removed it years ago for the same reason but planted it again a couple of years ago and now it on the list for removing. I've just spat the dummy out over a iris sibirica, I like it but all that foliage for 2 weeks of flowers if the weather doesn't trash them first.
I have 2 or 3 evergreen honeysuckles. Flowers and evergreen! What’s not to like? Just about everything I think...pointless things. Also geranium macrorrhizum. Yes it’s good groundcover, but it’s pretty dull. Alchemilla Mollis, not only does it get everywhere but it’s quite hard to dig up.
I have realised I really dislike Primulas. Don't know if it was just mine but the flowers didn't stay long and then the leaves that were left were quite ugly.
Delphiniums, I lovingly watched it grow, protected it from slugs and then it was just coming into flower when we went on holiday for 11 days. Came back, all flowers had gone, too shortlived for me.
Must stop buying more plants, repeat, must stop buying....
Oriental poppies, flop everywhere with the slightest of wind/rain. Peonies always flower when the weather is at its most chaotic.
Lupins and Delphiniums will only be grown in very deep pots on the decking because of slug damage.. even then a few find their way up. Lupins seem to be more resilient in neutral/acidic soil/compost.
Another vote for Mahonia- eeeevil!! To be fair, grown where they are out of reach then fine, although to be honest, I don’t think it’s particularly attractive either. Lupins... there is just no point here, as what the beasts don’t eat, the mildew kills. Clematis hate me. I’m turning the other cheek at the moment, but I won’t be it’s doormat forever! 😏
Sticky petunias -even the dark ones with the wonderful smell. The older and bigger they get, the more work deadheading,deadheading, deadheading, dead........
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I must get out more ! Loads of Strawberries down the lane though!
Hosta in the ground are a problem with slug damage.
I got a pink astible which is a total thug, nice but a thug. I removed it years ago for the same reason but planted it again a couple of years ago and now it on the list for removing.
I've just spat the dummy out over a iris sibirica, I like it but all that foliage for 2 weeks of flowers if the weather doesn't trash them first.
Also geranium macrorrhizum. Yes it’s good groundcover, but it’s pretty dull. Alchemilla Mollis, not only does it get everywhere but it’s quite hard to dig up.
Delphiniums, I lovingly watched it grow, protected it from slugs and then it was just coming into flower when we went on holiday for 11 days. Came back, all flowers had gone, too shortlived for me.
Lupins and Delphiniums will only be grown in very deep pots on the decking because of slug damage.. even then a few find their way up. Lupins seem to be more resilient in neutral/acidic soil/compost.
Lupins... there is just no point here, as what the beasts don’t eat, the mildew kills.
Clematis hate me. I’m turning the other cheek at the moment, but I won’t be it’s doormat forever! 😏