Dont have problems growing monarda - rudbeckia - heleniums here, must be the amount of rain we get, I do avoid plants what need very well drained soil. Its just the slugs which cause the damage, delephiniums tend to get the jump on the slugs and get large before they emerge to feast, I got a lupin now which looks a right state with slug damage, it was beautiful in flower hardly any damage now its an eyesore relatively close to the front of the border..
I got guem flame of passion this year which I am a little bit disappointed in, the flowers are tiny. Hopefully next year will be better, I got tai mai at the same time which was nicer.
day lily stella de oro not done must flowering since I got it last year as well.
I think my example would be a matter of personal taste but I was disappointed with a dahlia called Crazy Love - on the packaging photo the flower looks very pink at the edges but mine are completely a very dull white.
Also a semi cactus dahlia called Fireworks has disappointed me - it came in a mixed packet of semi cactus dahlia tubers so I didn't know exactly what they were until flower came. I find it garish and unpleasant looking, but that's my own fault for buying it!
I am disappointed with fuschia genii but I think it's just the particular one I bought is floppy and has fallen down to the ground. Ditto geranium Rozanne - I know it's plant of the century but my version is very low and floppy and I was hoping it would be a bit more upright.
Tree lilies - given some bulbs last year. They grew and grew and and just looked silly. Normal lilies are much better. Again probably a matter of taste.
Oh so many, scabiosa, flowered for one year and never came back, rudbeckia and gaillardia flowered for one year and never came back.
Parsley, planted it one afternoon looking forward to some parsley potatoes and in the morning there were only 0.5 cm stalks left.
Gladioli, spent hours staking but they are determined to stay prone.
Sunflowers, planted loads all eaten by slugs, got one 7 foot one left.
Lamium, another one planted in the evening, stalks in the morning.
Heuchera, they have never looked nice or grown well no matter where I planted them.
A load of begonias I planted under a tree, they look blowsy and over colourful compared to the rest of the bed which is ferny and muted and quite elegant. The begonias scream look at me like a rogue hen party.
A beautiful white delphinium - slug bait in hours.
Orange geum, looked gab in garden centre, just wanted to lie down and die all summer.
I blame geums for my constant battle with wood avens. When I moved here, I mistook them for geums and left them. They are sneaky - the parsnip of the flower world. They are in cahoots with their relatives, the wood avens.
Ladybird4: Rudbeckias gave me a spectacular show last year. They are bold and striking and flowered well past the first frost. I got them £1 for 3 last year from Aldi. Sadly, haven't seen any of these bargains this year. Perhaps give them a different spot, I am sure you can grow them successfully.
With me, it has got to be anemone, and Pasque flowers. I have only one surviving Pasque flower plant from my dead donkeys. I keep my finger crossed that it will still be here after the winter.
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Oh fidget - I feel your pain
Dont have problems growing monarda - rudbeckia - heleniums here, must be the amount of rain we get, I do avoid plants what need very well drained soil. Its just the slugs which cause the damage, delephiniums tend to get the jump on the slugs and get large before they emerge to feast, I got a lupin now which looks a right state with slug damage, it was beautiful in flower hardly any damage now its an eyesore relatively close to the front of the border..
I got guem flame of passion this year which I am a little bit disappointed in, the flowers are tiny. Hopefully next year will be better, I got tai mai at the same time which was nicer.
day lily stella de oro not done must flowering since I got it last year as well.
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I think my example would be a matter of personal taste but I was disappointed with a dahlia called Crazy Love - on the packaging photo the flower looks very pink at the edges but mine are completely a very dull white.
Also a semi cactus dahlia called Fireworks has disappointed me - it came in a mixed packet of semi cactus dahlia tubers so I didn't know exactly what they were until flower came. I find it garish and unpleasant looking, but that's my own fault for buying it!
I am disappointed with fuschia genii but I think it's just the particular one I bought is floppy and has fallen down to the ground. Ditto geranium Rozanne - I know it's plant of the century but my version is very low and floppy and I was hoping it would be a bit more upright.
Tree lilies - given some bulbs last year. They grew and grew and and just looked silly. Normal lilies are much better. Again probably a matter of taste.
This dahlia
nothing like the photos in Sr. Catalogue first photoe second actual
Oh so many, scabiosa, flowered for one year and never came back, rudbeckia and gaillardia flowered for one year and never came back.
Parsley, planted it one afternoon looking forward to some parsley potatoes and in the morning there were only 0.5 cm stalks left.
Gladioli, spent hours staking but they are determined to stay prone.
Sunflowers, planted loads all eaten by slugs, got one 7 foot one left.
Lamium, another one planted in the evening, stalks in the morning.
Heuchera, they have never looked nice or grown well no matter where I planted them.
A load of begonias I planted under a tree, they look blowsy and over colourful compared to the rest of the bed which is ferny and muted and quite elegant. The begonias scream look at me like a rogue hen party.
A beautiful white delphinium - slug bait in hours.
Orange geum, looked gab in garden centre, just wanted to lie down and die all summer.
I blame geums for my constant battle with wood avens. When I moved here, I mistook them for geums and left them
. They are sneaky - the parsnip of the flower world. They are in cahoots with their relatives, the wood avens.
aym280, I kept failing on Pasque flowers until I ran out of space one year and shoved it into a pot hanging on a sunny wall. It thrived.
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I always thought they were supposed to be easy to grow...nope, tempremental madams.
Hi Folks,
Good thread ... has cheered me up!
It's Pachysandra terminalis 'Green Carpet' for me .... green carpet my ***e!
Thought it would look good in a winter border area I'm trying to create.
It's limping along and very tatty looking. It's getting moved this autumn and will be on a yellow card if it doesn't improve.
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