@Suesyn is Florence fennel the same as the one that you can grow as an ornamental one? We saw lots of fennel at a National Trust garden recently and it was lovely and floaty and airy.
@JoeX my husband cleared the shed for me at the end of the garden, with a potting bench. I've not used it once - taken to doing all my pricking out / potting up on the floor outside the garage. I get so annoyed when I have to troop to the end of the garden to get compost! Was your shade loving collection a Beth Chatto purchase?
@jamessayersbrown you and Treeface have inspired me - I went out and divided my heucheras this afternoon! That Christmas tree is really pretty but I also love your collection of ferns!!!
Amazing! Let me know how they get on.
My ferns are my favourites! I have four now. I would have more if I had the space. The two that I've had for three years are how huge. If I repot them into bigger pots they may take over the whole yard!
Was your shade loving collection a Beth Chatto purchase?
Thompson Morgan, not their fault I suspect but frustrating to wait two years and still no flowers, I did forget to mention their lupins did come out gangbusters if briefly , earlier this year. So not a dead loss. 🙂
Other disasters - calibrachoa the size of my thumb nail and lobelia. I tend to buy plugs of lobelia. It's the one plant that seems to be hugely dependent on where I buy it. This year the plants from a big nursery have done nothing from day one. They have just sat there all summer, though they have been fed and watered. I have put them in the same pots, on the same site with same amount of water as most years - the plants are green and look healthy, but they have grown hardly at all.
Hmm, I guess its time to stop hoping *those* plants will recover, and admit defeat!
Whats not worked 😢
Hydrangea The ‘Shade loving’ collection Long grass Short grass Topiarised cupressus Onions New rose bush Small Dahlias (again) Dogwood cuttings, nine, all dead Blueberry bushes Moving the large table from the patio to the end of the garden Potting bench, unused
Whats worked 😀
Rudbeckia Geraniums Primrose Daffodils Big dahlia Begonia Lavendar Potatoes Dividing the garden with Beech (12) Gladioli Grapevine Hops New arches painted white Painting all garden buildings cream Having the large patio empty of furniture
You can probably tell a lot about my garden and me as a gardener from that lot, but I still cant make head nor tail of gardening! 😅
Would love to see how the beech look dividing the garden...... It's something I've considered myself!!
My biggest failures were entirely my own fault. I didn't prune things enough in the spring. The list of shame is as follows: Gaura Penstemon fuchsia magellanica clematis. I was so glad that they'd sprouted, I was loath to prune them - big sprawling mistake😐
@Fire, I had this with thunbergia - I ordered some pink ones as plugs and only one has grown. The rest have just sat there growing the odd leaf but are barely bigger - they've been a total disappointment.
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My ferns are my favourites! I have four now. I would have more if I had the space. The two that I've had for three years are how huge. If I repot them into bigger pots they may take over the whole yard!
The list of shame is as follows:
Gaura
Penstemon
fuchsia magellanica
clematis.
I was so glad that they'd sprouted, I was loath to prune them - big sprawling mistake😐
I think you do it earlier than that but I'm not sure. A more knowledgeable person might advise us both😉