Busy-Lizzie said: Depends on your personal taste. I like yellow flowers.
A chacun son gout. I like yellow, but on the more subtle primrosy side. Wild daffs not blousy hybrids; some good pale yellow large and small rhodies. Not Azalea pontica (Rhodo luteum), but many others are OK. Not the uusual Hammamelis, but there are some nice pale ones.
Fairynight doesn't like pink. My garden is build around it.
location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand. "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
I also would pull it out unless you want to cover a lot of ground . It spreads like the very devil so keep on top of it. I don’t like the flowers either but that’s just my preference.
Much of the soil locally to me is red clay. There are areas where you can cut it into slices, bricks were produced here in the past.
H calycinum is invaluable in shady areas where clay soil drys out in summer and is wet in winter. Very few plants cope with these conditions which helps to restrict it's growth and inhibit it's spread.
It is semi evergreen here fresh new leaves as shown in the photo are produced in spring. If time is taken to study an individual flower it's beauty can be seen. Yellow can be a harsh colour in full sun but can lift a dark corner. With plants such as Euonymous Emerald and gold, Carex evergold, Geranium macrorrhizum White Ness and Campanula poscharskyana E H Frost a large very difficult area can become an interesting space.
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
I remember a million years ago when I was studying Garden Design at college, I suggested HC in a planting plan and the lecturer circled it in red ink and wrote " nasty little plant" beside it. I have to agree with him. It's invariably hideously disfigured with rust spots. I'd NOT plant it anywhere
With horrible (to our family) brassy-yellow flowers. It also reminds me of my Victorian, non-gardening relatives. Who only grew rose of sharon, lily of the valley , and monbretia. And never cut their grass.
There are dozens of better ground-coverers.
I love Lily of the Valley...but it has to be in the right place.
I don't particularly like yellow flowers either but this plant is in a spot where not much will grow so I'll just keep it in check, I don't want it to spread rampantly! Thanks everyone for the help in identifying it.
Just too wet and cold for Lily of the Valley here. I envy gardeners who's plants make a 'nuisance' of themselves a rare occurance in a soil that is wet and cold in winter and dry in summer. The challenge is to find plants that survive extremes which is not only a skill but an acceptance. @Hostafan1 I think your lecturer could have dealt with your suggestion in a more positive way. Their own likes and dislikes if given should be properly explained.
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
@Hostafan1 I think your lecturer could have dealt with your suggestion in a more positive way. Their own likes and dislikes if given should be properly explained.
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Fairynight doesn't like pink. My garden is build around it.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
She's @Fairygirl ..... perpetually young
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H calycinum is invaluable in shady areas where clay soil drys out in summer and is wet in winter. Very few plants cope with these conditions which helps to restrict it's growth and inhibit it's spread.
It is semi evergreen here fresh new leaves as shown in the photo are produced in spring. If time is taken to study an individual flower it's beauty can be seen.
Yellow can be a harsh colour in full sun but can lift a dark corner. With plants such as Euonymous Emerald and gold, Carex evergold, Geranium macrorrhizum White Ness and Campanula poscharskyana E H Frost a large very difficult area can become an interesting space.
I have to agree with him. It's invariably hideously disfigured with rust spots. I'd NOT plant it anywhere
@Hostafan1 I think your lecturer could have dealt with your suggestion in a more positive way. Their own likes and dislikes if given should be properly explained.