I also have Japanese anemone which struggled for years in the dry shade ... then we had the big ash tree pollarded ... the J. anemones have responded with a gengence ... they're also on @WonkyWomble's list to be annihilated 😠
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I don't need to consider periwinkle. I have an abundance I had a neighbour who thought ground cover would be a great idea. The trouble is, when had it covered her ground, it started on mine😒 Just when you think you've got rid of it, it lurks underground for a year and then springs back everywhere having built up a nice healthy root system while it was in hiding.
Periwinkle was well established under the trees when we came here ... we have no choice in the matter ... we just hack it back if it reaches the 'lawn'.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It's very interesting how other people's PITAs are my "useful for the really dry spots" plants - vinca, japanese anemones, cerastium (that's in the base of the privet hedge), stachys lanata, grape hyacinths. They do need some refereeing (except the grape hyacinths) and I can imagine they can get to invasive proportions with better conditions. Would I grow any of them if I had lovely rich moist soil? Probably not .
My PITAs were here before me - spanish bluebells and the allium with the teeny tiny bulbs and grassy leaves.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
Phlomis is a nuisance in my garden after buying one plant many years ago. Acanthus, also the tiny alium that has leaves like the thinnest chives growing all over the place and Vinca that keeps coming under the fence from NDN. Her passion flower would cover my garden too, if I didn't keep cutting back the stems (then being accused by her of killing it off ) I have grape hyacinth but so far it is still friendly.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Just when you think you've got rid of it, it lurks underground for a year and then springs back everywhere having built up a nice healthy root system while it was in hiding.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Acanthus, also the tiny alium that has leaves like the thinnest chives growing all over the place and Vinca that keeps coming under the fence from NDN. Her passion flower would cover my garden too, if I didn't keep cutting back the stems (then being accused by her of killing it off
I have grape hyacinth but so far it is still friendly.