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Sep 2021
9:45pm, 17 Sep 2021
7,950 posts
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Eynsham Red
Hoverflies are great fans of them too.
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Sep 2021
12:12am, 18 Sep 2021
79,631 posts
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Hanneke
They are cheery things and good to have around. I must get some more, mine disappeared after a few years.
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Sep 2021
1:15pm, 19 Sep 2021
54,144 posts
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Velociraptor
Does anyone have experience of creating a bog garden? On one side of our house we have a patch of garden that gets very wet. It's all grass at the moment and reeds grow among the grass. I've been muttering about drainage for a while, but am now thinking about other options. It's surrounded on three sides and not a sunny spot.
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Sep 2021
4:04pm, 19 Sep 2021
10,207 posts
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Sigh
We had that problem at our last house, V'rap. We planted a Gunnera, which was too successful as it soon blocked the path, and some bamboo (phyllostachis, couple of varieties) and that was so successful it spread onto next door's nicely laid white stone area.
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Sep 2021
4:07pm, 19 Sep 2021
79,664 posts
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Hanneke
Don't get a gunnera or bamboo of the phylostachys genus 😜😎
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Sep 2021
4:09pm, 19 Sep 2021
10,208 posts
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Sigh
Lol
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Sep 2021
4:17pm, 19 Sep 2021
54,148 posts
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Velociraptor
Good advice already! Every article on the internet seems to say both, "Get a gunnera," and, "Whatever you do, don't get a gunnera." And someone posted on the local FB page yesterday looking a bamboo removal practitioner.
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Sep 2021
7:11pm, 19 Sep 2021
8,256 posts
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sallykate
Fritillaries grow in water meadows so should cope with a bit of wet - they’ll give you some spring colour at leaf. The snakes head ones I mean.
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Sep 2021
8:59pm, 19 Sep 2021
54,152 posts
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Velociraptor
Crikey, sallykate, have you had a peek at the order I placed with Peter Nyssen this morning? Having read that snakes head fritillaries, which eL Bee! and I both like (I planted some out the front on a whim a few years ago), enjoy boggy conditions, I bought a load of them to bury in the wet part of the garden in the hope that they'll naturalise.
I've also massively over-ordered tulip bulbs. I forgot about the ones I bought in B&M a couple of weeks ago. Fortunately, after raiding my dad's garden shed I also have a surplus of plant pots.
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Sep 2021
9:16pm, 19 Sep 2021
79,668 posts
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Hanneke
Tulips don't like it boggy... Camassias however grow in damp meadows too and flower later than the fritillaries.
Dark and wet, certain ferns do well and you could do worse than getting some wild flower marginals.
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Sunlight, Warmth, Happiness… and triffids
Jul 2020