I've got self seeded alchemilla mixing with self spreading ajuga, I quite like them together so generally just leave them to get on with life. This was last May - you can see the dark purple leaves and blue flowers of the ajuga on the right of the pot - just going over at this point.
ETA - I have the cotoneaster too - one about 2 inches tall and one maybe a foot high. Both bought at the same time, planted in the same aspect, perhaps 10 feet apart. No idea why the difference
Last edited: 21 February 2017 10:58:12
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
It seems that the cotoneaster dammeri vary greatly in height, and it is the 2" high version that I am most interested in planting, I don't want to trip or have to stride over it, as it will be planted along our pathway.
Hostafan, yes, that is the effect I am looking for, what do you to to your dammeri to produce that lovely low spreading effect? Your garden looks lovely raisingirl, well tended and colourful. Are the blue flowers in the background Anemone de Caen?
GD, erm, so far as that cotoneaster is concerned.... ignore it until I feel it's covered too much path or ventured too far back into the bed. No bother whatsoever.
It was there when we moved so I've really done nothing more to it.
Thanks - but that's a teeny narrow view taken just after I happened to have mulched that bit of the bed. If you could zoom out a bit you would form a rather different impression
The blue flowers are a geranium - not sure if it's 'Midnight blues' or 'Buxton's Blue' or a random hybrid. I have a lot of geraniums and they self seed and spread so seedlings and small divisions turn up in lots of places. I'm very very bad at keeping track of which is which
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Ours is planted deliberately alongside the drive, as the Paper boy used to walk on the garden instead of on the drive, and it takes all the walking on, lifts up in the spring,drops lower during the winter, 18 inches to two foot high at the highest, good stout shrub.
It sounds to be a really hardy plant from your description cornelly, but I am not sure I want a shrub, I want a horizontal creeper. There seem to be many forms to this cotoneaster. Perhaps I am looking at the wrong specimen.
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I have a pretty pinky creamy variegated ajuga - if you'd like a bit I'll find a snippet with roots on if you PM me your address GD
Here it grows on a bank and has 50/50 sun and shade in the summer.
Last edited: 20 February 2017 08:55:53
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
GD, have sent you a PM
I've got self seeded alchemilla mixing with self spreading ajuga, I quite like them together so generally just leave them to get on with life. This was last May - you can see the dark purple leaves and blue flowers of the ajuga on the right of the pot - just going over at this point.
ETA - I have the cotoneaster too - one about 2 inches tall and one maybe a foot high. Both bought at the same time, planted in the same aspect, perhaps 10 feet apart. No idea why the difference
Last edited: 21 February 2017 10:58:12
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
It seems that the cotoneaster dammeri vary greatly in height, and it is the 2" high version that I am most interested in planting, I don't want to trip or have to stride over it, as it will be planted along our pathway.
Hostafan, yes, that is the effect I am looking for, what do you to to your dammeri to produce that lovely low spreading effect? Your garden looks lovely raisingirl, well tended and colourful. Are the blue flowers in the background Anemone de Caen?
GD, erm, so far as that cotoneaster is concerned.... ignore it until I feel it's covered too much path or ventured too far back into the bed. No bother whatsoever.
It was there when we moved so I've really done nothing more to it.
Thanks - but that's a teeny narrow view taken just after I happened to have mulched that bit of the bed. If you could zoom out a bit you would form a rather different impression
The blue flowers are a geranium - not sure if it's 'Midnight blues' or 'Buxton's Blue' or a random hybrid. I have a lot of geraniums and they self seed and spread so seedlings and small divisions turn up in lots of places. I'm very very bad at keeping track of which is which
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Ours is planted deliberately alongside the drive, as the Paper boy used to walk on the garden instead of on the drive, and it takes all the walking on, lifts up in the spring,drops lower during the winter, 18 inches to two foot high at the highest, good stout shrub.
It sounds to be a really hardy plant from your description cornelly, but I am not sure I want a shrub, I want a horizontal creeper. There seem to be many forms to this cotoneaster. Perhaps I am looking at the wrong specimen.
This is a creeper, I prune alongside the drive at floor level and on the garden side, a couple of times a year, never need to prune the top,