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Wet soil

christine 007christine 007 Posts: 257
in Problem solving

Can i put foxglove and hydrangea in wet soil?

The soil  is rather wet as it runs down from neighbours top garden so its always wet?

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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190

    The hydrangea will love it, not sure about the foxgloves.

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • christine 007christine 007 Posts: 257
    Lyn wrote (see)

    The hydrangea will love it, not sure about the foxgloves.

    Thanks Lyn xx

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,138

    Foxgloves like free-draining soil - they won't like it. 

    The hydrangeas should be happy there.

    Pulmonarias and candelabra primulas would love it there image


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





  • Katherine WKatherine W Posts: 410

    I HAVE seen wild foxgloves in fairly dank splashy places... if you can grow them cheap from seed I'd definitely give it a try!

  • Fishy65Fishy65 Posts: 2,276

    The foxgloves that have done best in my garden this year are under the shrubs in damp soil...though damp, not wet.

    Geum Rivale like wet soil christine. Along with caltha palustris, cardamine pratensis and lythrum salicaria. The latter I have some baby plants of, if you would like some image

  • christine 007christine 007 Posts: 257

    Thanks guys i tried to answer here on aa few occasions but no idea if it was my laptop or forum, but there was no reply box i could not get on the forum to answer anything.

    Fishy yes that would be great will pm  you in a sec.

    Thank so much guys, i have planted the hydrangea in the wet soil, its looking happy along wiith mint in its own pot to stop it spreading, now i have a few others from you guys will be getting them, or is it too late to buy and plant now?

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,138

    Christine image  there was a blip on the forum - fixed now. 

    If it happens again you can sometimes work around it by going to settings and changing from Advanced Editor to Basic Editor - it means you can't use emoticons or post photos, but at least you can post image

    I'd be happy to plant hydrangeas now - the flowers might be past their best but you might get them cheaper because of that image


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





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,064

    I have a permanently damp, shady bed and grow hostas, ligularias, hemerocallis, astilbes, primulas, hakonechloa and astilboides and they love it.   I also have some cornus alba in there at the back in a gap in the conifer hedge.  

    This is it in late June.   When the ligularias and hostas flower they give some height and spike to all the hummocky stuff.

    image

     I grow foxgloves in better drained parts of the garden.

    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)."
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