All those michaelmas daisy type asters with long brown mildewed stems and leaves and some flowers on top. It's too dry here and there are some lovely asters that do well
I have michaelmas daisies in a dry soil and in shade and have the same problem as you nutcutlet, so this year the`re out, enough is enough, I don`t have any probs with the smaller ones so i will divide a few to fill the gaps
I'm going to dig out the shasta daisies. Too invasive,and they always fall over and look a mess. And reduce the red tree peony which is making a bid for freedom.
I have a couple of michaelmus daisies which are a bit wishy washy in colour and also suffer from mildew. We have clay soi which is wet in winter and hard as rock as in summer. Not giving up on daisies altogether though going to try and smaller variety .
Verdun _ different climate or soil to mine I think. My heucheras seem to thrive in my garden. Have to keep chopping bits of and replanting when grows out of soil but takes like there is no tomorrow, as does a.mollis
Have left all( over100) of my dahlias in the soil to overwinter after those that were left in during last year's very cold spell, survived. Just cut them down and mulched.
Also considering taking out, or at least cutting back to ground level, my pyracanthas, which are rampant in a mixed hedge. They can grow 4ft a year and shred me when I try to cut them back.
I appreciate this thread because it is not about what are good plants or not... they all are... but about which ones come with more "cost" than "benefit" for you.
Moved into a house with a garden that has been loved, but had been left to run for a while and for the past year I've been trying to control the lovely but rampant plants - Shasta daisies, Michaela daisies, wild geranium (can't remember the proper name) and so on ... So the new things I pop in have to look after themselves against the strong and the thuggish and I haven't yet had to decide. But I'm hoping the lavender I planted around roses will flourish, the bees loved it last year.
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All those michaelmas daisy type asters with long brown mildewed stems and leaves and some flowers on top. It's too dry here and there are some lovely asters that do well
In the sticks near Peterborough
With you on those, nut - they're invasive here to boot.
Yes, that too Bob
In the sticks near Peterborough
I have michaelmas daisies in a dry soil and in shade and have the same problem as you nutcutlet, so this year the`re out, enough is enough, I don`t have any probs with the smaller ones so i will divide a few to fill the gaps
I'm going to dig out the shasta daisies. Too invasive,and they always fall over and look a mess. And reduce the red tree peony which is making a bid for freedom.
I have a couple of michaelmus daisies which are a bit wishy washy in colour and also suffer from mildew. We have clay soi which is wet in winter and hard as rock as in summer. Not giving up on daisies altogether though going to try and smaller variety .
Verdun _ different climate or soil to mine I think. My heucheras seem to thrive in my garden. Have to keep chopping bits of and replanting when grows out of soil but takes like there is no tomorrow, as does a.mollis
Have left all( over100) of my dahlias in the soil to overwinter after those that were left in during last year's very cold spell, survived. Just cut them down and mulched.
Also considering taking out, or at least cutting back to ground level, my pyracanthas, which are rampant in a mixed hedge. They can grow 4ft a year and shred me when I try to cut them back.
I appreciate this thread because it is not about what are good plants or not... they all are... but about which ones come with more "cost" than "benefit" for you.
Moved into a house with a garden that has been loved, but had been left to run for a while and for the past year I've been trying to control the lovely but rampant plants - Shasta daisies, Michaela daisies, wild geranium (can't remember the proper name) and so on ... So the new things I pop in have to look after themselves against the strong and the thuggish and I haven't yet had to decide. But I'm hoping the lavender I planted around roses will flourish, the bees loved it last year.