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Would you hoik out a healthy plant if it looked ok but didn't fit in with your planned colour scheme

B3B3 Posts: 27,505
in The potting shed
In London. Keen but lazy.

Would you hoik out a healthy plant if it looked ok but didn't fit in with your planned colour scheme 43 votes

Yes
44%
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No
25%
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Other
30%
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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Yes ... but I'd find another home for it ... or give it to Wonky  :)

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    edited June 2018
    Not hoik, but lift it carefully to grow on in a suitable position or pot up for swaps.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    You're all heart, Dove !
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • SussexsunSussexsun Posts: 1,444
    No
    No but then I don’t have a colour scheme. If I like it I plant it.
    To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited June 2018
    B3 said:
    You're all heart, Dove !
    Wonky was very pleased to receive my Geum Totally Tangerine which looked all wrong in my garden ... she has a lovely old wall of soft orangey bricks along the back of her wide border and TT looks just fab there  :D

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • AuntyRachAuntyRach Posts: 5,291
    Other
    Bit of all three for me:
    I have some shrubs which don’t really ‘go’ or I wouldn’t have chosen, but they if they flourish then they stay. 
    I have some plants which I think would look better somewhere else, so if they are easily transplanted - I may move them. I have quite a few pots of perennials which can be moved into different positions too. 
    Most of my garden is mature shrubs so I select new plants, or choose the annuals to fit in with the scheme, thus minimising any incorrect choices. 
    My garden and I live in South Wales. 
  • stewyfizzstewyfizz Posts: 161
    Other
    I don't really have plans, just happy accidents!!
    Gardening. The cause of, and solution to, all of my problems.
  • PosyPosy Posts: 3,601
    If its alive and well, that's plan enough for me.....
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 0
    No
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  • Mary370Mary370 Posts: 2,003
    Yes
    I am trying to keep to 3 or 4 colours in my front garden, so yes I would hoik a wrong coloured plant out and transplant it into my back garden which is a kaleidoscope of clashing colours
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