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Which geranium is this?

hardy geraniums are some of my favourites. Geranium phaeum is very early, been out for some time, very dark purple but also has a pink and a white version. Next there's G sylvaticum and G. macrorrhizum. All good for a shady spot. After that there are hundreds of them, something for any place in the garden

Composting

I use what has been thrown out of the shredder, woodchips mostly though some dead stalks from last year's perennials. I put it around any newly planted stuff as a moisture retainer. I've never had any problem that I can put down to this and it works really well.

I don't store it unless I don't currently need any

do you do a "Chelsea chop ? if so what plants !

I'm going to have a good chop this year (if I get round to it). Some might not work, I won't do theose next year. I shall do the sedums, heleniums, asters and lychnis chalcedonica which has already fallen over having had its suporting weeds removed. Might be more when I get out there and look. Campanulas, they might benefit and those over tall creamy coloured ones that look like scabious but aren't. As years go on there are many more plants with names on the tip of my tongue.(Or maybe further back than that)

Which geranium is this?

Go down to the GC and look. Those sold from under cover, in plugs, for hanging baskets, for patio displays etc are the tender  ones, pelagoniums.

Those in bigger pots out in the open amongst the other perennial plants are hardy. And probably labelled hardy geranium. Different type of plant entirely

Help identifying a ground covering plant

Thanks blackest

A very fine crop of ground elder I see now

Today I feel so happy....

WW, I reckon about 4-5  years to the first flower. Sometimes a bit longer. They seem to do not a lot for a couple of years then take off. I've never had one come up in the garden though. Or if it did it got weeded out with thestinging nettles.

Moving delphiniums at the wrong time

I thought everyone talked to their plants. How else would they know what to do

Help identifying a ground covering plant

http://apps.rhs.org.uk/advicesearch/Profile.aspx?PID=215

ground elder I think but the pics are very small and apart from the leaf i see a green blur

Good Evening FORKERS

TT if you want to weed kill those celandines you'll need to do it soon. They don't hang about long.

Night Dove

Plant ID please

I reckon it's a verbascum.  

Evening walk

Allium paradoxum

slug psychology

Lurking under pots and trays

cow parsley and hogweed

My babies this morning

The map

Toms in the cold GH

wild cherry, what's up with it

deep pink epimedium

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Aquilegia discolor

When will I learn?

Does anyone recognise this

What have I got here?