I am going to grow some Amsonia this year, thalictrums are a good shout as well , I fancied growing a Aronia before didn't know where to put it though .
I don't think Aconitium are grow enough seem to give people the hebejebes , Sanguisorba - Actea and I liked to see more flowering Cornus trees .
Hello @VictorMeldrew, my Panicum took a year to establish before it earned its space in my garden, but it was worth waiting. The flowers are delicate, unlike those of Miscanthus and Calamagrostis, but the leaves are what I like - upright, contained and not bothered by high winds. They do like an open sunny space. Here's my group of three Panicum Northwinds, photographed today.
Hello @VictorMeldrew, my Panicum took a year to establish before it earned its space in my garden, but it was worth waiting.
Yours look really good @Pm! I'll give mine another season and see if it earns it's place. The winter impact of yours is similar to what I'm currently getting from my Calamagrostis but they're not totally wind-proof.
Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
I grew Jacob's ladder one year when I was just starting my garden in Belgium almost 30 years ago. Never again. It turned up everywhere the year after and took me several years to eradicate.
Lots of pale pink cyclamen naturalised in grass here and I've been deliberately planting new ones in white and more vivid pinks and crimsons but in beds where they're safe from OH's mower and can self seed in the grass if they want.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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Scleranthus uniflorus. We used to have lots in our garden, but our puppy loved it, and ripped most of it out. It's very tactile, and visitors would always want to go over and touch it, thinking mistakenly that it was moss.
A small patch has self-seeded itself in our gravel, and I'm hoping it will slowly develop into a large clump (now that the dog has grown up). Only garden I've ever seen it is is the dry garden at RHS Hyde Hall.
I had that once @Lizzie27 I totally get why you like it. Sadly it didn't survive in our garden and was a bit swamped by all of the other planting anyway. I find it's the tiny plants that get overlooked, more than the big, showy ones.
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I don't think Aconitium are grow enough seem to give people the hebejebes , Sanguisorba - Actea and I liked to see more flowering Cornus trees .
Nicotiana Sylvestris is relatively well known I suppose but I rarely see it and think more people should grow it.
Yours look really good @Pm! I'll give mine another season and see if it earns it's place. The winter impact of yours is similar to what I'm currently getting from my Calamagrostis but they're not totally wind-proof.
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
Lots of pale pink cyclamen naturalised in grass here and I've been deliberately planting new ones in white and more vivid pinks and crimsons but in beds where they're safe from OH's mower and can self seed in the grass if they want.
A small patch has self-seeded itself in our gravel, and I'm hoping it will slowly develop into a large clump (now that the dog has grown up). Only garden I've ever seen it is is the dry garden at RHS Hyde Hall.