Grey silvery plant, stay or go?
Hi
Thanks in advance for your ongoing help. What are the silvery grey plants at the lower part of that raised rockery/bed, in front of the growing crocosmia lucifer please? I can't remember name but bought them last year thinking they were annual bedding plants. They have stuck around, grown reallt big and look like they have flower buds on them,
They look nice and decorative but they are taking up a valuable full sun spot. I would like to put something else there, but my parents, whose garden it is that I'm redesigning/ gardening in, say they like it. They don't realise how much stuff I have in pots that needs to go in the ground - eucomis, dahlias, asters and a few other things. Seems like a good spot as these grey things have grown massive.
What do you think? Remove or leave it?
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Leave it it is lovely! That splash of silver makes a lovely contrast of colour that would go with all sorts of things
"Tanacetum argentum" according to my Roy Lancaster book .
'You must have some bread with it me duck!'
if they like it and it's in their garden I think you could only upset them by removing it.
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Wakeshine. just cut the flowering stems off. I did that with mine a few years ago as I wanted to use it as an edging plant.
Joyce21 will that stop it from getting bigger?
Wakeshine, mine didn't get bigger but after the second year it got a bit tattty so I removed them then.
Joyce21 well that's what I was thinking - do mine look tatty? I just really need the spot for something else but everyone is telling me it looks nice there. I thought about trimming them but I might make a mess of it.
It looks as though there are only two or three plants there. If you want to plant something else there, lift them and plant them out singly in other places.
I think they will look better as silver/grey rozettes without the flowering stems.