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Help with ground cover

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Hostas are fine with sun as long as they've got plenty of dampness at the roots.  However, they are slug and snail fodder so unless you have time to go out on slug hunts in the evening ... 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    You could plant more ferns ... there's all sorts of varieties ... just a few suggestions here

    https://www.fibrex.co.uk/collections/ferns

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    I grow Epimedium spine tingler and E Domino. Geranium White Ness is lovely but may be too big for the space.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • Clara MidgleyClara Midgley Posts: 31
    Ergates said:
    I think some hostas would look great there, but I don’t know how they would cope with the sunny part of the day.
    I love a hosta too! Alas, the slugs are in charge around here and have annihilated them.
  • Clara MidgleyClara Midgley Posts: 31
    Bee witched said:
    Another vote for ajuga from me.
    Will quickly form a nice mat so good to stop the cats. Bits are easily pulled up and put elsewhere in the garden if it grows where you don't want it. Only attention I give mine is to trim off the old flowers to tidy it up. It's evergreen here with me in Scotland, and even grows in very dry shade under an old oak tree.
    Might also be nice to pop some wee tete a tete daffs in there and some other little bulbs such as chionodoxa ... they soon spread too.

    https://www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/grow-plants/how-to-grow-chionodoxa/

    Bee x
    Fab, I’ll look into that. Thank you x
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    If Geranium White Ness is too big as @GardenerSuze says, this might work
    https://www.cranesbillnursery.com/all-plants/geranium-sanguineum-album 
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @AnniD That is a great link. The sanguineums will make useful plants if we continue to have dry summers 
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    I have just ordered two different G sanguiniums{ a late birthday present I tell myself!] Won't arrived until September which is fine.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
    Another shout for ajuga - doesn't need much looking after, spreads quickly, slugs don't eat it, looks gorgeous, has really pretty flowers, and comes back even when you think a patch is dead. 

  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @Slow-worm I hope my dead patch of ajuga will come back it was beautiful in spring but now......
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
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