I had trouble with wallflowers dying when put into their final position. Now i sow them in toilet roll tubes and thin out to one seedling. When large enough pot the whole thing on to the next size pot, then plant when the time is ready.
young red acer looks wonderful in dappled shade until midsummer. Then no amount of watering can mitigate toasted leaves. I'm not going to pull it out, in the hopes that maturity or a cooler summer might help. But I wouldn't get one again.
I'm giving up on Hostas. Despite having frogs around this year they were gobbled up by slugs again. Touch wood they haven't touched the delphiniums. I had 3 hardy perennial lobelia but something stripped the stems and they look dead. I bought a dwarf hebe on a whim, its planted in the wrong place and I don't like it so that's being given away. The dogwood is going, it's got too big and is quite boring, and two cotoneaster that are sprawling everywhere are going. I don't like those either.
given up on trailing geraniums and clematis.... they just look pitiful and even smaller than when I bought them. Dahlias, they are still flowering, but they hardly have any leaves on them...
Absolute yes to the strawberry tree, can't believe it's grown so much, and the hairy foxglove that appeared out of nowhere in the raised beds. Also both acers look good.
I was really leery about planting my saved dahlias in the ground so q only planted the weediest specimens expecting them to die. However, they have done better than the ones in containers. More flowers even though the leaves dont look great. Couldn't use slug pellets as we have a resident toad -or two. How can you tell how many? Most of mine are going in the ground next year but close to house so they've got a better chance of getting watered.
I'm seriously thinking of taking all of my lilies out of the containers and putting them in the ground to leave them to nature's tender mercies. Although they are beautiful for a few weeks, they look rubbish after flowering - for a long time. And then there's the beetles. I particularly have the evil eye on some very tall ones.
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Most of mine are going in the ground next year but close to house so they've got a better chance of getting watered.
Although they are beautiful for a few weeks, they look rubbish after flowering - for a long time. And then there's the beetles.
I particularly have the evil eye on some very tall ones.