Oh yes! The most important thing is making sure your more precious things you brought with you survive and are cared for.
Crocosmia made me laugh. I do think it is pretty but also something we inherited here and never quite managed to totally get rid of. Good Luck and hope to see some more photos at a later date. You can sit out with a favourite beverage and plan
I have lots in the front garden and every year I dig loads of them out. I have planted a number of alpine and perenials in amongs them and they are doing fine. When the leaves of the grape hyacinths die down a bit I just pull them out and the other plants then take over. I don't think I'll ever get rid of them but just do my best to see that they don't spread anywhere else. They do look pretty though.
Am I the only person who actually likes the flowers? Blue isn't my favourite colour and the leaves, which look almost dead most of the time aren't very attractive either, but the blue of these flowers against the yellow of narcissus looks amazing and the bees love these little grape hyacinth flowers too.
Thata a nice garden you have inherited! Apart from pulling up some patches where you definitely want to plant other things, I would probably play the waiting game to see what else pops up rather than digging the whole thing over. That bare patch running behind the main clumps (unless you cleared it) may well have perennials that are not showing yet...
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Am I the only person who actually likes the flowers? Blue isn't my favourite colour and the leaves, which look almost dead most of the time aren't very attractive either, but the blue of these flowers against the yellow of narcissus looks amazing and the bees love these little grape hyacinth flowers too.
I like them. They don't spread much here though.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
I love the blue but they are so invasive. Have spent the last 12 years trying to keep them under control but they are impossible to kill. Best idea is to deadhead the minute the flowers wane and keep digging the clumps out where you don't want them.
Thanks all. Will definitely post some photos of garden on garden gallery photos once i get fully stuck in I like the muscari too but maybe just not so much of it. It has been flowering for quite some time now which is great but the foliage does look a bit untidy if i'm being honest especially.
Oh yes, lovely when in flower but then real thugs. I have lifted most of mine in previous years and cosigned to the recycling green bin. A few clumps are in big pots and giving a fabulous show and the ones that self seed in gravel are treated with pathclear or boiling water or salt. Trouble is, if you just let them spread the bulbs prevent anything else from growing through.
There are some less invasive varieties - I also have a few clumps of Muscari Fantasy which are lovely.
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Crocosmia made me laugh. I do think it is pretty but also something we inherited here and never quite managed to totally get rid of.
Good Luck and hope to see some more photos at a later date. You can sit out with a favourite beverage and plan
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.