Thank you for the information Woodgreen, I appreciate it and I will plant some scilla siberica around it. I haven't got around to planting any yet.
I'm sitting here deciding where to put it. Take something out of the shrubbery at the back of the house, plant it in a half whisky barrel or create a new planting area for it at the front of the house. I need to plant nearby of course to take advantage of the autumn caramel smell so I think that cancels the front of the house.
I have one in the front garden Fire but I wouldn't want it in the back garden. I have to keep a watch for suckers. Mine is side by side with the paroticia persicaria. Neither of which have reached their full autumn colours yet.
Lovely to see your purchase @Uff. I did put white wood anemones too but the scillas took over somewhat.
I have just planted white anemones and some scillas too. Interesting that the scillas took over (I won't mind). Only time will tell, if you have time @Woodgreen post a pic, thank you.
Sorry, @Coccinella, but I dont have a photo showing them all growing under the tree. I had a good look back for one when I mentioned it to Uff, and can hardly believe I didnt get a photo of them this spring, as they were finally making a good splash of blue, noticeable from a distance. Because the flowers are small and downward facing (scilla siberica) they do need to have plenty of blooms to make an impact. It may be that they don't get enough light under the cercidiphyllum, I'm not sure. I grow scilla sardensis (chinodoxa sardensis) in another area and this has more impact as the flowers are bigger and upward facing. I had hoped for a nice mix of blue and white by adding the anemones but these are diminishing, I think because the roots of the tree make the soil much drier now that it has grown so big. If yours are going in less dry soil you will hopefullly enjoy the blue and white. I deliberately planted the scilla siberica under the tree with no perennials etc. as in a previous garden the bulbs had seemed a bit lost among plants and I wanted them to have the space to themselves. They get along fine with all the cyclamen, which form a carpet of leaves through which the scillas come up. By midsummer all trace of scillas and cyclamen are gone and that's when I mulch, so that the cyclamen flowers emerge through it in late summer and early autumn. This was March 15th 2021, but its a close-up. The dark blue doesn't show up well from a distance, that's why I was so pleased with them this spring, as there were enough flowers to make an effect.
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I'm sitting here deciding where to put it. Take something out of the shrubbery at the back of the house, plant it in a half whisky barrel or create a new planting area for it at the front of the house. I need to plant nearby of course to take advantage of the autumn caramel smell so I think that cancels the front of the house.
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Because the flowers are small and downward facing (scilla siberica) they do need to have plenty of blooms to make an impact. It may be that they don't get enough light under the cercidiphyllum, I'm not sure. I grow scilla sardensis (chinodoxa sardensis) in another area and this has more impact as the flowers are bigger and upward facing. I had hoped for a nice mix of blue and white by adding the anemones but these are diminishing, I think because the roots of the tree make the soil much drier now that it has grown so big. If yours are going in less dry soil you will hopefullly enjoy the blue and white.
I deliberately planted the scilla siberica under the tree with no perennials etc. as in a previous garden the bulbs had seemed a bit lost among plants and I wanted them to have the space to themselves. They get along fine with all the cyclamen, which form a carpet of leaves through which the scillas come up. By midsummer all trace of scillas and cyclamen are gone and that's when I mulch, so that the cyclamen flowers emerge through it in late summer and early autumn.
This was March 15th 2021, but its a close-up. The dark blue doesn't show up well from a distance, that's why I was so pleased with them this spring, as there were enough flowers to make an effect.
Here's a living frame of colour