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Suggestions please

LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
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OK you knowledgeable people - can you suggest something for me?

I need a plant to hide a short post and some fixings. Something that behaves like erysimum Bowles mauve would be excellent: perennial, about 18 inches to 2 foot high, evergreen-ish or at least not herbaceous, preferably flowering. Nothing too greedy either. The reason I want something else is because I don't really want that colour in that spot (white / cream or pale blue, or mainly green of any shade would be good), and also because I already have a couple of them elsewhere.

Any ideas? Thank you in advance!

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  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698

    I think a Euphorbia would fit the bill - Euphorbia characias wulfenii (yellow-green flowers, lovely greyish evergreen foliage, about 3 foot). Or Euphorbia x martinii, a shorter version with slightly darker leaves. E. characias is a nicer plant IMO. There are various forms but I think the basic form, or 'Lambrook Gold' are the best. There are variegated versions which look hideous IMO.

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  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093

    euonymus? doesn't flower but very attractive leaves and evergreen. Or one of the smaller choisyas?

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  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360

    Thanks both - I do like euphorbia so will investigate further. I'm afraid I'm not keen on euonymous and I have a choisya which gets enormous whatever I do to it. I'm not sure I want anything quite as shrubby. That said, you've made me think of pittosporum - are they greedy plants?

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  • Joyce21Joyce21 Posts: 15,489

    Choisya Aztec Pearl.......after ten years mine is three feet high and wide.

    SW Scotland
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093

    Pittosporum no - not particularly greedy. No good in a windy position. They can get quite big. What about a dwarf ceanothus if it's a sheltered position?

    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360

    Thanks Joyce - I had a look at Aztec Pearl (online) and wondered if that might be better behaved than whatever it is that I've inherited! Don't think it's a sunny enough spot for ceanothus. 

    These are all good suggestions, thank you - my mind had gone completely blank but now I'm getting more of an idea what might work.

    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • hogweedhogweed Posts: 4,053

    One of the smaller hebes might do the trick.

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  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254

    Choisya x dewitteana ‘White Dazzler’. Very compact.

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