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Produce => Non Edible Plants => Topic started by: wilko on June 22, 2007, 14:37:00

Title: planting ideas!!
Post by: wilko on June 22, 2007, 14:37:00

:) Afternoon all ( notice I didn't say 'good', blinking raining again  :( )

I would like some ideas about what to plant at the side of my new path, I thought at first lavender with a pebble mulch, but as lavender likes a free draining soil, you can see my dilemma,

 so, what I would like to do is repeat the plant( what ever that may be) in each of the small beds at the side of the path , but it hasn't got to mind getting it's feet wet quite often  ::)

so all ideas welcome peeps  ;)

Title: Re: planting ideas!!
Post by: emmy1978 on June 22, 2007, 15:52:56

Have consulted the RHS plants for places book, which by the way is fantastic. How about something like a lythrum salicaria/ The one they show is called 'feuerkerze' It looks like it would give you the same effect as the lavender and is almost the same colour!

Title: Re: planting ideas!!
Post by: Tee Gee on June 22, 2007, 16:46:06

You might get some ideas here; http://tinyurl.com/ylmj3z

Title: Re: planting ideas!!
Post by: wilko on June 22, 2007, 22:38:05

 ;) cheers emmy and Tee Gee

lots to think about there

Title: Re: planting ideas!!
Post by: Sabretooth on June 24, 2007, 12:40:52

Hello there!! ;D

New to forums (as from yesterday).  I like the path very much...some suggestions of mine:-

Astillbe (they like the wet), Epimedium (gorgeous leaves), mint?, Iris?Arum-lily?

Keep asking  ;)

Sabre

Title: Re: planting ideas!!
Post by: wilko on June 24, 2007, 16:30:12

 ;) cheers sabretooth , and welcome ;D

Title: Re: planting ideas!!
Post by: fluffygrue on June 26, 2007, 15:01:48

Either Iris ensata (if it stays wet most of the time) or Iris sibirica (if it has drier periods as well).. or day lilies, they cope well with wet soil.

And as a dot plant I'd stick a few Darmera peltata, cos they're quite dramatic.