Although there are certainly more spectacular flowers for me as someone who has quite a large garden, young family, full time job and wife that does little in the garden my favourites are my Hardy osteospermum.
They are always bright and cheerful with lovely lemon smell, provide excellent ground cover since weeding / garden time is limited, very easy to grow and fill out my borders wonderfully. Easy to propogate and unfussy they faithfully return year after year.
The berries are a lovely deep purply blue and look stunning in Autumn sunshine (being optimistic here!) I just let it go wherever it wants as I heard it can be a bit choosy.
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There are lots but these are the few that come to mind:
Verbena bonariensis because it just goes on and on; I have known it to be flowering in every month of the year except February and March. I like the way you can see through it too.
Rosa Banksii lutea because it is just so beautiful. It doesn't repeat and it's season is only about a month but to my mind there is no rose to compare. I don't have one now because I don't have a south facing wall, which it needs in southern England.
Lavender because it looks good all year and is amazing when it flowers. The pollinating insects love it. Ditto Rosemary.
Silver Birch because it is airy and light and sounds wonderful in the breeze. There are nearly always birds in it too.
Teucrium fruticans because of it's grey foliage and it looks all year and you can clip it however you like. Another one that is good for the pollinators and has a long flowering season.
Good thread Newb. I'm sure we will all pick up some good ones from this.
Based in Sussex, I garden to encourage as many birds to my garden as possible.
WOW, so many replies and so many plants to look at?
afrer googling just a few of them i am lost in wonderful gardens in my mind. Please keep them coming.
i went out to collect a parcel and looked at my baby hosta june, and i thought she is worth mentioning here. she just has a few leaves but still got a character!
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Although there are certainly more spectacular flowers for me as someone who has quite a large garden, young family, full time job and wife that does little in the garden my favourites are my Hardy osteospermum.
They are always bright and cheerful with lovely lemon smell, provide excellent ground cover since weeding / garden time is limited, very easy to grow and fill out my borders wonderfully. Easy to propogate and unfussy they faithfully return year after year.
Just spotted my Tropaeolum speciosum scrambling about in the garden - another favourite.
The berries are a lovely deep purply blue and look stunning in Autumn sunshine (being optimistic here!) I just let it go wherever it wants as I heard it can be a bit choosy.
Just walked round the garden, and today my favourite plant is, Dahlia Karma Choc., or maybe one of the Cannas, or maybe...................!
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There are lots but these are the few that come to mind:
Verbena bonariensis because it just goes on and on; I have known it to be flowering in every month of the year except February and March. I like the way you can see through it too.
Rosa Banksii lutea because it is just so beautiful. It doesn't repeat and it's season is only about a month but to my mind there is no rose to compare. I don't have one now because I don't have a south facing wall, which it needs in southern England.
Lavender because it looks good all year and is amazing when it flowers. The pollinating insects love it. Ditto Rosemary.
Silver Birch because it is airy and light and sounds wonderful in the breeze. There are nearly always birds in it too.
Teucrium fruticans because of it's grey foliage and it looks all year and you can clip it however you like. Another one that is good for the pollinators and has a long flowering season.
Good thread Newb. I'm sure we will all pick up some good ones from this.
WOW, so many replies and so many plants to look at?
afrer googling just a few of them i am lost in wonderful gardens in my mind. Please keep them coming.
i went out to collect a parcel and looked at my baby hosta june, and i thought she is worth mentioning here. she just has a few leaves but still got a character!
Oxalis adenophylla - only small, but flower for ages if you deadhead them and I love the symmetry of the leaves and the flowers.
Fuchsias - flowering their socks off at the moment, amazing colours.
Pelargoniums - I've got a few, but my favourite is an ivy leaf variety called maxima, it's like raspberry ripple on a stem.
Acers, love their shape and their colours, so graceful.
I have an alpine / succulent container that I'm really proud of, it means I can grow some plants I love that would hate my heavy clay soil.
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I can't choose one I seem to have several lol.
Fav roses - Buff Beauty, Old Blush China, Chicago Peace and Chandos Beauty
Fav flower bed plant - calendula
Fav wildflower - primula veris or cowslip
Fav indoor plants are cyclamen and aspidistra