Plants you've brought this year - 2018

Well I can kick this off with a good start after losing bottle brushes that needed replacing, as there's more to come Oh don't you just love Garden centres.

Liatris "spicate kobold"



Alstroemeria "Princess Sara


Antirrhinum "Snapdragon White"


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Euonymus "Harlequin"


Spiraea "Snowmound"


Astilbe "Younique"



Astilbe "Pink"

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Lovely selection of plants Gail!

 

Hello Netty, that's not them all...while replacing 7 bottle brushes I went mad with quite a few in the garden. The Astilbes were sold saying they were ok in the sun and no way they like shade, so I ended up doing this but where the fencing is at the back that takes the shade early so one has been put either end.

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just a heads up on the liatris... keep the spent flowers cut off. they will go to seed and be EVERYWHERE.

 

You've not seen the front garden yet...we did have a lovely lawn totally flat to the slabs but my staffy when alive kept kicking it and in the end we decided on larger gravel..it was doubled lined and 3 tons went down and he still went down to the lining and kicked out, this year we've re-newed all the pea gravel around the plants because it was mixed with larger and it's cut some work out but the trouble we have is both front and back are total sun traps all day

 

Hi Carolyn, it's funny you saying that as I've just been out side to sweep the garden and they've now died the heads have and been cut back besides removing dead Snapdragon heads and roses.

 

I re-homed to pink hydrangea plants and brought these to replace them and the flower heads are coming out now.

Pennisetum "Skyrocket"


Pennisetum "Summer Samba"


Two each of these Heathers









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Hubby removed a wide conifer from the front garden but the rooting wouldn't moved so he axed it and throwed pea gravel on it and it looks like the other rocks on the garden and we brought 4 pink pampas grasses from young and they have grown put to kick start them I put two of them in a pot each with multi purpose compost and they matured nicely before moving them in to the ground.

I know they don't flower till the 2nd year but I've had them before and one of those flowered the first year around...so fingers crossed I hope a couple do.

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I brought Carex grasses early this year and they failed with the heat besides burning and it didn't matter how much I watered them

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I am really starting to like grasses, and have tried to grow Japanese Forest grass twice. The first died almost immediately and the second was struggling. I moved to complete shade and now it's doing much better. But now I'm going to have to make a new shade garden around it LOL

 

Hello @Netty I've become addicted to them but our gardens here are total sun and heat all day, so the carex I fetched out and put in the bin

Ponytails are stunning / Elijah Blues / ….here's some pic's of mine

Ponytail - It loves sun



Elijah Blue grasses - Love the sun or half shade



Imperata cylindrica "Red Baron"....lovely deep red and loves the sun



Kniphofia "Flamenco" - Loves the sun



Carex "Prairie Fire"- Loves the Sun





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I bought tall red, yellow. and pink snapdragons.

 

I've got the smaller white snapdragon and once flowered how low do you cut them back? and will they come back next year, as I put two plants together and it's still flowering now

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