So I'm definitely going very left field here, my favourite 3 are 1. gunnera 1 particular specimen I have had quadrupled this year and looks absolutely amazing, clearly not very British but fits perfectly on my jungle/tropical area 2. Big blue eryngiums, I love the variegated leaves and the vivid electric blue flower heads are almost unreal and they stay looking so picturesque all winter 3. Foxgloves, well if they were always as fab as this year's. Upto 20ftish high and flowered for ever
Mrs Wilderbeast disagreed quite profusely and choose 1. Roses 2. Hollyhocks red O'Hara 3. Achillea's
Anything that flowers from May to November and then produces glorious winter foliage. Oh, and needs no trimming, staking or other such fussing!
Personally one of my favourite plants in my garden is a group of rowan trees. The white flowers are lovely, giving way to orange or red berries, then the leaves turn fabulous shades of red and gold, and in the winter some berries remain, and where we are the air is so clean there's always a lovely flock of fluffy lichen keeping the branches warm
My physocarpus diablo is a year-round pleaser too, and if I had to pick a flower......we have the right soil to turn hydrangeas a vivid electric blue...
But like others, it's hard to choose. I like a primula because it gives and gives - endless flowers then endless offspring to relocate around the garden; various roses smell gorgeous and/or look beautiful.
Love/hate relationship with aquilegias due to their self-seeding properties, and slightly ditto with foxgloves, which are fortunately much easier to pull out if in totally the wrong place
And finally...one day I will live further south and will have dahlias
No longer newish but can't think of a new name so will remain forever newish.
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Dahlia for the continuity.
Geranium for the ground cover.
1. gunnera 1 particular specimen I have had quadrupled this year and looks absolutely amazing, clearly not very British but fits perfectly on my jungle/tropical area
2. Big blue eryngiums, I love the variegated leaves and the vivid electric blue flower heads are almost unreal and they stay looking so picturesque all winter
3. Foxgloves, well if they were always as fab as this year's. Upto 20ftish high and flowered for ever
Mrs Wilderbeast disagreed quite profusely and choose
1. Roses
2. Hollyhocks red O'Hara
3. Achillea's
Personally one of my favourite plants in my garden is a group of rowan trees. The white flowers are lovely, giving way to orange or red berries, then the leaves turn fabulous shades of red and gold, and in the winter some berries remain, and where we are the air is so clean there's always a lovely flock of fluffy lichen keeping the branches warm
My physocarpus diablo is a year-round pleaser too, and if I had to pick a flower......we have the right soil to turn hydrangeas a vivid electric blue...
But like others, it's hard to choose. I like a primula because it gives and gives - endless flowers then endless offspring to relocate around the garden; various roses smell gorgeous and/or look beautiful.
Love/hate relationship with aquilegias due to their self-seeding properties, and slightly ditto with foxgloves, which are fortunately much easier to pull out if in totally the wrong place
And finally...one day I will live further south and will have dahlias