A.Kudos does struggle here I have two plant ones on its last legs I'd be surprised if it shows this year and the other hasn't seemed to make its mind up yet what it wants to do . I am adding new Agastache this year call Kolibri .
Yes they are good plant @Woodgreen the foliage is great , I have been eying one up I've seen at Bridgewater called Queen of Sheba it a bit different . I'd like to have it but nowhere to plant it... yet
Yeah, Alstroemeria 'Indian Summer' is very showy (almost too much but it grew on me). I also have another one, 'Summer Breeze' if I recall correctly, which isn't as showy, but maybe just because it is in part shade. I would love one of the purple or red varieties.
Ok.. on to 'B's... I'm having to deviate here a little..
..Everyone knows this plant, and it's in flower now for most of us, I have lots of it, but it's the summer foliage that I really like, after a cut back because it tends to get holey and tatty, it rebounds with such fresh greenery, I have it amongst my roses and perennials.. Brunnera 'Jack Frost'.. ..we need to edge our borders and I love purple/reddish bushes, like this Berberis 'Admiration'.. ..and Berberis 'Bagatelle'...
Oops, missed the A slot! Here are a few of mine anyway..
Agastache Blue Boa - this is more showy than most and survives winters better than Black Adder:
Agastache Beelicious, a compact version 40-50cm high, more understated:
Black Adder grows ridiculously tall here - at the back towering over Helenium Moerheim Beauty and Crocosmia Lucifer:
I also grow shrubby Agastache Aurantica, various cultivars, but particularly recommend well-behaved and compact ‘Tango’ (no photo). Hawkmoths prefer this over all others.
Achillea Walther Funke and Safran are very similar, starting a brilliant orange/red and fading to yellow. I grow both, Safran is slightly more compact and upright:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I have just found another 'A' although it should now be under 'S' [Symphyotrichum].. I think it's rather beautiful as white Asters go, but it should come with a warning, it's invasive at the root and will quickly spread and colonise.. hence mine in a pot.
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Yes they are good plant @Woodgreen the foliage is great , I have been eying one up I've seen at Bridgewater called Queen of Sheba it a bit different . I'd like to have it but nowhere to plant it... yet
..Everyone knows this plant, and it's in flower now for most of us, I have lots of it, but it's the summer foliage that I really like, after a cut back because it tends to get holey and tatty, it rebounds with such fresh greenery, I have it amongst my roses and perennials..
Brunnera 'Jack Frost'..
..we need to edge our borders and I love purple/reddish bushes, like this
Berberis 'Admiration'..
..and Berberis 'Bagatelle'...
Agastache Blue Boa - this is more showy than most and survives winters better than Black Adder:
Agastache Beelicious, a compact version 40-50cm high, more understated:
Black Adder grows ridiculously tall here - at the back towering over Helenium Moerheim Beauty and Crocosmia Lucifer:
Achillea Walther Funke and Safran are very similar, starting a brilliant orange/red and fading to yellow. I grow both, Safran is slightly more compact and upright:
I have just found another 'A' although it should now be under 'S' [Symphyotrichum]..
I think it's rather beautiful as white Asters go, but it should come with a warning, it's invasive at the root and will quickly spread and colonise.. hence mine in a pot.
ASTER trifoliatus subsp. ageratoides 'Ashvi'
..looking forward to some more 'A's.. or 'B's..
Alstromerias from last year. I can see shoots emerging, so they haven't disappeared.
.. that pink one especially..