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What perennials are ŷou currently obsessed about for next year?

VerdunVerdun Posts: 23,348

I have got the helenium bug.....it's ok its dangerous only to your bank balance.  It's not my only plant obsession but I grew heleniums for the first time last year....put off by their not too attractive foliage before......and they were fantastic.  I'm growing more next year.  Got maybe 6 varieties but will add another 6 I guess, or 7 or 8!  image

Hooked on agastaches too....have at least dozen varieties of those......amd hellebores, maybe 35 varieties of those and then there are the salvias and the.........image

but I feel the urge to be botanically obsessed about something else.   Must be the cold dark melancholy of these winter days but spring beckons. image

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    I haven't decided yet Verdun. There's not much left from some of my earlier obsessions. 

    Achillea, lots of lovely oranges and tans. Now down to a few creams.

    Codonopsis, there may be a few clematidea left

    Arisaema, only tortuosum appeared this year

    We shall see. I like to keep a diverse collection, including lots of native,s to support our fellow residents. 



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • hmm as confessed on another thread I am quite hooked on hellebores. I think this year I might be a bit potty about pulmonaria too and add to my (so far very limited) collection (2 varieties!). I think I might have to succumb to the charms of the white flowered one - might be sissinghurst white?

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    I love pulmonarias. You'll have to look after that white one Gg, it's a bit feeble compared to most of the others. I lost it very quickly



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • I haven't yet decided what my obsession will be for next year Verdun, but all I'm sure of is that there will be one!  I have about 70-80 aquilegia crosses I made which grew from seeds last year and should flower this year so once I've selected and moved the best of those I should have plenty of space for whatever takes my fancy.  Back to the catalogues it is then! image  Happy Christmas my friend!

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • So far it's the same as last year - hellebores, aquilegias, pulmonarias - but that's only until I think of some more to add to the list - one things for certain - there may be some added but they will not take the place of any that are already there - the list will just get bigger!!!!!!!!!!!


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • cairnsiecairnsie Posts: 388

    Funny I am growing a lot of aquilegias at the moment looking forward to seeing how they turn out,

  • PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,307

    For Heleniums look here

    www.specialperennials.com

     

    I intend getting more Geums if I can.

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    I had a big aquilegia sow around this time  last year.

    I hope for a great flowering this year but, due to too much happenin, I haven't got them in the garden yet



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Woodland planting and wildflowers..... Having sowed the little part of my front lawn to wild seed last week I'm excited to see what happens.... Also just going to get a little obsessed at better layering in the borders  

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