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English_girl_in_FranceEnglish_girl_in_France Posts: 108
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Hello, I put these plants in last spring but now they have grown a bit I'm not sure looks that great, and I'm not sure how to fix it... 
I don't really like the big gap at the gap, not sure if there is room for a climber there or something behind the hydrangea? Or shoukd I try to move the plants? The whole thing in about 1.5 m and then a metre round the corner and at the deepest it is 0.75m. Any suggestions/ ideas of what I can do to make it look a but better would be greatly appreciated 🙂 thank you! 
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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Could you not train some of the clematis sideways?

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





  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    The hydrangea should grow to fill the space if you're patient. Most of them are rather big once they've got going.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Jenny. Are you sure that’s a hydrangea? 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Patience!!

    Given time and an annual feed in spring plus oaccasional liquid feeds of rose or tomato fertiliser that rose will surely grow bigger and fill the space.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    @Obelixx , @English_girl_in_France said it was a hydrangea. I don't grow them myself (it's not wet enough here) but a happy one should get pretty big.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    There may well be a hydrangea but that wee pink droopy flower on the teeny trellis looks to me to be a rose and, like clematis, they are hungry, often thirsty plants and can take a year or 3 to get their feet down and established before they do well above ground.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • floraliesfloralies Posts: 2,718
    I don't think I can see a Hydrangea there either, a Salvia next to the rose?
  • PlantmindedPlantminded Posts: 3,580
    edited June 2023
    I think you’ve got enough plants in that space already but if you want to fill that gap while they get bigger, you could place a container there and fill it with some summer flowering annuals or perennials, adding more height and colour.
    Wirral. Sandy, free draining soil.


  • English_girl_in_FranceEnglish_girl_in_France Posts: 108
    Thanks for the advice everyone! So sounds like I need to be a bit patient! In the meantime I have started constructing a little trellis from some leftover bamboo and tried to move the clematis round a bit! 
    It's definitely a hydrangea, it'll be 2 years this autumn that I planted it! And the rose next to it was from a cutting I took from a neighbours Bush I think last year, or maybe the year before. So it's still quite little! I will be sure to find some food for them next time I go to the garden centre! 

  • debs64debs64 Posts: 5,184
    Where is the hydrangea? I see a clematis and a rose. 
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