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Reliable long flower season perennials for clay soil

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  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    More at ground level but Campanula Dixon's Gold is good.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • zugeniezugenie Posts: 831
    Persicaria will like the boggy bit, i had persicaria superba which was lovely. Pulmonaria, wood anemones, camissia (though might be wrong time of year) shasta daisy, phlox, campanula, and aster all grew very well on my clay soil with compost mixed in
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited February 2022
    Maybe some perennial helianthus, phlox, geum, achillea, coreopsis, rudbeckia, veronicastrum for full sun.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Alliums do well here as do most bulbs.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • WonkyWombleWonkyWomble Posts: 4,541
    Thank you so much all of you! That's really helpful!! Any more please keep them coming!! It's a big deep boarder! 👍
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    If you have bits that stay reliably moist in summer, Ligularias will be very happy, but they're mostly quite big, so they may not be any use if the wetter bits are front of border, rather than back or middle. 
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  • WonkyWombleWonkyWomble Posts: 4,541
    Thanks @Fairygirl and @Songbird-1, I'm trying to help them do it on a budget from as many divisions etc I can and don't want them wasting funds on plants they love that won't be happy in the conditions
  • Alan Clark2 in LiverpoolAlan Clark2 in Liverpool Posts: 2,190
    Daylilies, Verbena bonariensis and a few Osteospermums eg Lady Leitrim (most varieties are not fully hardy). 
  • WonkyWombleWonkyWomble Posts: 4,541
    Oh I've got verbena by the million! Thanks @Alan Clark2 in Liverpool
  • Bright starBright star Posts: 1,153
    can I add Astrantias to your list @WonkyWomble and Pimpinella.
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