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  • VegplotmummyVegplotmummy Posts: 96
    plant pauper said:
    @Vegplotmummy please may I have the Echinacea and you can have the alliums. I've just planted my first this year and I love them so I've now planted my second and third. I have seeds on order too.... :blush:
    😂 echinacea are apparently hard to keep alive in our weather, for over winter it can be cold and wet rather than just freezing cold. I think that's why I would like the challenge. They are lovely flower heads and great for bees. I don't think there is a national collection of them so let's go for it 👍
  • VegplotmummyVegplotmummy Posts: 96
    Hostafan1 said:
    I seriously thought about creating a Ligularia collection as , the last time I looked, there isn't one.
    Striking plants, part of the sunflower family? I say go for it! 
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    That is why I always let half of them self seed and then collect some too as they are so low in germinating numbers @Vegplotmummy.😀
  • Jules41Jules41 Posts: 178
    Hydrangea for me. Nothing beats them ! 

  • Alan Clark2 in LiverpoolAlan Clark2 in Liverpool Posts: 2,190
    Hemerocallis, although with over 80,000 named hybrids they would need a lot of space!
  • Mark56Mark56 Posts: 1,653
    Agastache or the dark foliage Dahlias for me (already one of these, met the chap at Hampton Court - he was on one of the coverage shows) 
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    P urplerallim - whatever makes you think there are only 2 dicentras? - https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/Search-Results?query=Dicentra

    I'm not collecting anything till I find out what is really happy here.  

    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
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    Well I never!!! Didn't realise there were more than the two you see in GC @Obelixx . Some of them are lovely, not fond of pink flowers, but what a range of size/colours. Why don't GC stock more varieties.😊😲😍
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I can’t resist collecting seeds, (as Hostafan will verify) I have so many aquilegia plants here as I can’t resist a seedhead,  every one germinates.  It’s decision  time now, plant out or compost, just how many aqui plants can one girl plant out😀

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Probably salvias for me. Though I don't have very sunny gardens so they wouldn't do very well. Endlessly fascinating, though. So many wildly different types, aromatics, colours, habits.
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