Busy, I can match all of your conditions except the hot summers. Try Leucanthemum 'Shapcott Summer Clouds', it's an absolute beauty here and Bob Brown of Cotswold Garden Flowers says it's 'bombproof'. Broadway Lights has also done well for us, though we have lost our plant because a pair of ducks decided it made a good cushion in the early spring! Echinceas I have too, doing ok, but because of the winter wet I lift them, pot them up and overwinter in the (cold) greenhouse. If I had enough I would try one or two somewhere well drained to see what happened. The ordinary white astrantia grows practically wild here in the shady parts, seeding itself around, but have grown some this year in full sun and it is thriving. Also have a red one doing well (Roma or Venice?) in part shade. All in fairly well drained soil though. Can't vouch for the agastaches, as only just trying 'Blackadder'.
Japanese Anemones for me, had two for a couple of years now, still small and barely a flower, a third I purchased last year, September Charm I noticed yesterday has disappeared
Echinaceas don't do well either, but had a few flowers this year, going to move them again one last time.
For both I just keep thinking 'well, maybe next year'...but I should probably just get rid
I've also killed 3 different Ajugas and haven't a clue how...
I have my echinaceas in a tub after buying them as a root section. They seem to be happy there and may try them in the border.
If we're talking plants that haven't thrived this year then iris sibirica hasn't taken to my boggy area next to the pond. Yet the yellow flag and my Dutch irises have done really well.
Anything that can't stand wet cold soil for months on end. Waste of time up here. I grow suitable plants for the conditions and if I lose something, I try and work out if it's weather or just my own incompetence.
Often the latter
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Nothing other than the hardiest of hardy perenniels really survives long up here and I'm ordinarily fairly sensible about not even bothering to try anything else.
But there's a couple of things I really like and stupidly keep having a go at:
Agapanthus always only last one summer.
I've already had 2 goes at having a magnolia tree. I'm now on my 3rd go with a Magnolia Susan. Wish me luck
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Can't grow lupins or montbretia either.
Busy, I can match all of your conditions except the hot summers. Try Leucanthemum 'Shapcott Summer Clouds', it's an absolute beauty here and Bob Brown of Cotswold Garden Flowers says it's 'bombproof'. Broadway Lights has also done well for us, though we have lost our plant because a pair of ducks decided it made a good cushion in the early spring! Echinceas I have too, doing ok, but because of the winter wet I lift them, pot them up and overwinter in the (cold) greenhouse. If I had enough I would try one or two somewhere well drained to see what happened. The ordinary white astrantia grows practically wild here in the shady parts, seeding itself around, but have grown some this year in full sun and it is thriving. Also have a red one doing well (Roma or Venice?) in part shade. All in fairly well drained soil though. Can't vouch for the agastaches, as only just trying 'Blackadder'.
Japanese Anemones for me, had two for a couple of years now, still small and barely a flower, a third I purchased last year, September Charm I noticed yesterday has disappeared
Echinaceas don't do well either, but had a few flowers this year, going to move them again one last time.
For both I just keep thinking 'well, maybe next year'...but I should probably just get rid
I've also killed 3 different Ajugas and haven't a clue how...
I have my echinaceas in a tub after buying them as a root section. They seem to be happy there and may try them in the border.
If we're talking plants that haven't thrived this year then iris sibirica hasn't taken to my boggy area next to the pond. Yet the yellow flag and my Dutch irises have done really well.
Anything that can't stand wet cold soil for months on end. Waste of time up here. I grow suitable plants for the conditions and if I lose something, I try and work out if it's weather or just my own incompetence.
Often the latter
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Nothing other than the hardiest of hardy perenniels really survives long up here and I'm ordinarily fairly sensible about not even bothering to try anything else.
But there's a couple of things I really like and stupidly keep having a go at:
Agapanthus always only last one summer.
I've already had 2 goes at having a magnolia tree. I'm now on my 3rd go with a Magnolia Susan. Wish me luck