If it's happy in the pot, can't you leave it for a while?
Oh ok, as you asked nicely
What I meant was - when it started to send up lots of flowers, I then had to put the pot somewhere prominent. But yes it can now stay in the pot. I may even give it a bigger pot at the end of the season. As @JennyJ has found out, they like plenty of moist soil around them.
Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
With Nepeta Blue Dragon it was not so much the planting, just the expenditure of money.
” Quite distinct for a Nepeta in that it forms a dense upright bush rather than a lax mound of foliage, standing up well despite the elements. The flowers appear in a dense terminal cluster, quite large and standing proud above the foliage. The flowers are more in the style of Nepeta ‘Souvenir d’Andre Chaudron’ or a Dracocephalum, long like a Salvia and a strong mauvy-blue. This is a hybrid between N.yunnanensis and N.nervosa, a recent cross made by Janet Egger (Terra Nova Nurseries). 80cm”
Sounds rather good, doesn’t it? My experience was growing to 120cm, flopping over if you so much looked askance at it, and ‘large and standing proud’ flower clusters were an embarrassing 5cm. I have given the plants two years but, even though in full flower, I took them out last week and put in some moodily dark red dahlias.
Japanese anemone... read the warnings on ths site afterwards, tried to remove it 2 years ago and it still pops up leaves every few weeks. I'll keep digging ....
Teasel - I still really like it, it’s great in the wild life area, it’s sculptural, the birds and bees love it.
But oh my god, the number of seedlings. It’s absolutely everywhere, it definitely was not a good idea… I’m still pulling them up daily, it’s never ending.
@Grannybee can you believe that ours disappeared some years ago. One year they were there and then gone. Would like to have them back but something in our soil/habitat wasn't for them.
Teasel - I still really like it, it’s great in the wild life area, it’s sculptural, the birds and bees love it.
But oh my god, the number of seedlings. It’s absolutely everywhere, it definitely was not a good idea… I’m still pulling them up daily, it’s never ending.
I was considering getting a plant or two. I think I'll leave it to the wild areas.
I'm more into regretting plants my neighbours planted that have spread into my garden. Jasminium Beesianum, vinca, geranium wargrave pink. For myself, I regret planting an Albertine rose. I didn't realise it was a rambler and the flowers don't die pretty.
I inherited an Albertine. It doesn't die pretty and is worse in wet weather. No longer with me. Life is too short to have sub-standard plants,
I planted a Garrya elliptica, 'James Roof 'even. What dull leaves, what a boring plant, how short a time the tassles look good. I moved it after 4 years. It died.
At about the same time I planted an Itea ilicifolia. Glossy evergreen leaves, long-lasting tassles, honey scent that carries..
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'm on the verge of regretting a physostegia. In one year it spread much more than I anticipated (and I did want it to spread). It's not in danger yet of crowding out anything else, but I have a feeling season 2 will be a different story.
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What I meant was - when it started to send up lots of flowers, I then had to put the pot somewhere prominent. But yes it can now stay in the pot. I may even give it a bigger pot at the end of the season. As @JennyJ has found out, they like plenty of moist soil around them.
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
Mind you it makes space for new experiments.
” Quite distinct for a Nepeta in that it forms a dense upright bush rather than a lax mound of foliage, standing up well despite the elements. The flowers appear in a dense terminal cluster, quite large and standing proud above the foliage. The flowers are more in the style of Nepeta ‘Souvenir d’Andre Chaudron’ or a Dracocephalum, long like a Salvia and a strong mauvy-blue. This is a hybrid between N.yunnanensis and N.nervosa, a recent cross made by Janet Egger (Terra Nova Nurseries). 80cm”
Sounds rather good, doesn’t it? My experience was growing to 120cm, flopping over if you so much looked askance at it, and ‘large and standing proud’ flower clusters were an embarrassing 5cm. I have given the plants two years but, even though in full flower, I took them out last week and put in some moodily dark red dahlias.
I planted a Garrya elliptica, 'James Roof 'even. What dull leaves, what a boring plant, how short a time the tassles look good. I moved it after 4 years. It died.
At about the same time I planted an Itea ilicifolia. Glossy evergreen leaves, long-lasting tassles, honey scent that carries..
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."