Amazing! Thank you for all your help - it's so nice knowing what they will look like in summer and now I can look after them properly - I'm amazed by the Astible! They are gorgeous! actually I'm very impressed with all of them!
I'm looking forward to watching it change and grow over the next few years!
If if anyone has any pictures of your own gardens for inspiration, please do share! My garden is a complete blank canvas which I hope to completely transform! What would you say is a garden must have that I need to get in there asap???
The potted Phormium loves sun, I have 2 in pots in my SE facing front, hardly even get watered, Astilbies really like shade and damp, you are lucky it if is happy in your hot garden, how lovelly to be given alll these plants! Dont ask us lot for a garden must have, there will be thousands, good luck.I think in your case with small kids, it would be some sort of shade.
Except it's not a Phormium in the pot - it's a Cordyline. It'll struggle a bit in that pot - they become large trees. I'd get that in the ground if you can. Like Phormiums, they like free draining soil, but they also like plenty of water.
A nice warm position, and some grit mixed in if you're soil's not brilliant. If the soil's really unsuitable, you can still keep it in a pot, but find a much bigger one!
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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We were given the big potted plant and it just doesn't seem very happy.. i feel like it would prefer the shade? What do you think?
11. Maybe Leycesteria formosa. Young plant leaves are nothing like the adult plant leaves..
https://keyserver.lucidcentral.org/weeds/data/media/Images/leycesteria_formosa/leycesteriaformosa8tj.jpg
12. Cordyline.
http://www.toptopiary.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/0/e/0edit_cordyline_australis_cabbage_palm_red_star_1.jpg
8. Maybe Omphalodes.
Another that is very happy in shade. Spreads to form huge patches when happy.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=blue+omphalodes&rlz=1C1GNAM_en-GBGB687GB687&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjX953oxoTUAhVMIsAKHdt3Bt0Q_AUIBigB&biw=1536&bih=759
Amazing! Thank you for all your help - it's so nice knowing what they will look like in summer and now I can look after them properly - I'm amazed by the Astible! They are gorgeous! actually I'm very impressed with all of them!
I'm looking forward to watching it change and grow over the next few years!
If if anyone has any pictures of your own gardens for inspiration, please do share! My garden is a complete blank canvas which I hope to completely transform! What would you say is a garden must have that I need to get in there asap???
The Garden Gallery thread has photographs of posters' gardens and plants.
These will give inspiration and temptation!
The potted Phormium loves sun, I have 2 in pots in my SE facing front, hardly even get watered, Astilbies really like shade and damp, you are lucky it if is happy in your hot garden, how lovelly to be given alll these plants! Dont ask us lot for a garden must have, there will be thousands, good luck.I think in your case with small kids, it would be some sort of shade.
Except it's not a Phormium in the pot - it's a Cordyline. It'll struggle a bit in that pot - they become large trees. I'd get that in the ground if you can. Like Phormiums, they like free draining soil, but they also like plenty of water.
A nice warm position, and some grit mixed in if you're soil's not brilliant. If the soil's really unsuitable, you can still keep it in a pot, but find a much bigger one!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...