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Assorted planty recommendations - bush salvias and hardy geraniums

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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited June 2019
    Thanks. I'm looking at 'Clotted Cream' and 'Heatwave Glimmer' for a sheltered and fairly warm, London site.
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    I've not grown either of those but you stand a better chance of getting them through the winter than I would, as long as you give them good drainage.  If you're on London clay, dig in plenty of grit to improve it.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • BorderlineBorderline Posts: 4,700
    Clotted Cream is more pale lemon. It’s a good plant if you want subtle warm pale yellow but not a cool white tone.
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    I agree about Clotted cream, it's definitely more of a lemony yellow. Flowers like mad though.  
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Pale lemon would be fine. Maybe I should try both.
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    I would  ;)
  • Janie BJanie B Posts: 963
    edited June 2019
    Am loving my geranium Clarkei Kashmir White. Pretty prolific in my sunny clay border... Here’s a pic I took earlier today. I planted it last year... 


    Lincolnshire
  • pitter-patterpitter-patter Posts: 2,429
    I’m very curious about geranium Lilac Ice. It’s a sport of Rozanne, but much more compact and it’s pale lilac. Does anyone grow this? Would that be to your liking @Fire?
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    @Janie B , @pitter-patter - I'm looking mostly for a very long flowering geranium. Tbh, I'm not that bothered about colour. Both the salvia and the geranium are for a friend/neighbour who is not really a gardener and wants something to encourage wildlife and needs very little work.

    Together our gardens are aiming to create a multi-zone nature zone - providing, between us, a pond, lawn, feeders, bird tables, log piles, toad holes and everything else we can think of. We are (I am) trying for a wide diversity of planting with a good helping of natives.

    How long is the season of Lilac Ice and Kashmir? I'm also looking at ‘Derrick Cook’ (white).

  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    There's another sport of Rozanne called Azure Rush, that flowers for a long time.  In fact of the two, l prefer it.
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