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Floaty, wispy, airy plants for full sun bed?

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  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    Hi @Marlorena thanks for your advice.

    I will very rarely be looking at the bed from any other angle than the one from which I took the pic.

    I've left the gravel border around it so that I can cut the hedge and have pots up against the fence.

    I'll be mainly looking at it from the kitchen window and the dining room french doors or when sitting on the decking; all of which are of a similar angle to the pic.



  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    edited May 2022
    Giant Scabious - Cephalaria gigantea - gets enormous.   It would overwhelm that bed, I think.  It's a gorgeous plant, though, but it does need space to breathe.
    Scabiosa ochroleuca is a great alternative; it's more manageable and also flowers for a lot longer. Ceph. g. has too much 'down time' when it's not flowering to earn a space in a smallish prominent bed, IMO; although I also love it! The Scabiosa goes on and on flowering, building a haze of tiny pale yellow pompoms on wire-like stems, that become attractive little button seedheads.
    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    .. Just spotted the OP already has a scabious though, ignore my waffle
    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    I'm growing Selinum wallichianum as a perennial for the first time this year, it isn't in flower yet but the foliage so far is lovely. 







    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • zugeniezugenie Posts: 831
    edited May 2022
    What about asparagus ferns? Korean burnett is lovely but would need a little support

    The tall floppy one!

  • zugeniezugenie Posts: 831
    That’s really pretty @Uff
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    Yes I thought so too @zugenie
    I'm growing Ammi Majus from seed too but that's an annual. I love the lanes around me at the moment as they are lined with cow parsley and look a frothy delight.
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    edited May 2022
    Uff said:
    I'm growing Selinum wallichianum as a perennial for the first time this year, it isn't in flower yet but the foliage so far is lovely. 








    Yeah I love that.  I have it in the other new bed :D

    Maybe I should just get some more of this and some fennel and be done with it.


  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    Well, you won't go far wrong with those TheGreenMan. 
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    There are lots of gorg umbellifers in the wild carrot family worth exploring.
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