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-me-up all year round. For a striking display, try it with creeping Jenny, Lysimachia nummularia, tulips, golden narcissi or primroses.Top shrubsEuonymus fortunei Emerald 'n' Gold'This elegant evergreen shrub has rich mahogany leaves that emerge a pale creamy

and has very resistant roots, even when quite young. And, reminded by obelixx, all the lysimachias. I may not have finished yet. Yep, lysimachia Firecracker. Years back I thought it a wonderful thing. Purple red foliage and yellow flowers.....ugh! What

) in the coldframe outside from March without any heating. Seed packs are rose campian, cosmos, deliah, Agastache cana, Campanula Rockery ,Eryngium leavenworthii, Lysimachia atropurpurea, Papaver, Primula ,Sedum Rock Garden Mixed, Verbena bonariensis, Grass

violets, forget me nots, brunneria,  lily of the valley. lamium, lysimachia(creeping jenny, but get the yellow one not the green as it is invasive), periwinkle, aquilegia, asters, euphorbia, violas, skimmia.........and many more like or tolerate shade. All

campanulas, foxgloves, hellebores, japanese anemones, winter flowering jasmine- yellow flowers, some honeysuckles,campanulas, lysimachia, aquilegias, forget-me-nots, cyclamen, dicentras, I could carry on walking around my garden, but think you've now got

. For some reason, all the other big clumps of perennials such as phlomis and assorted lysimachia are more like extra strong mints with no hole and no weakening. They do need a good sorting out but I hate to discard viable plants on the compost

the first crocus opened on 1/23 here in reno nv- they are tommasianus-a few dozen planted 30 years ago have multiplied into thousands-crocus chrysanthus is budded but is waiting for a few days of sun-today it is 60 degrees and spring seems very close Hello David, It is good to ha...

their first winter.  I have several clumps of assorted miscanthus though and they do look good with things like verbena bonariensis, lysimachia alba clethroides, Joe Pye weed, tall phloxand helenium Lemon Queen, depending on where I have them. Grasses provide

shoots when I saw any, lysimachia punctata Alexander and iris pallida argentea variegata, In each case the plain green is really dull. .Some varieties are less stable than others.  I bought a Ceanothis Zanzibar once, on impulse, but never really liked

difffcult patch of mixed creeping jenny, mint, and the taller lysimachia that he was sick of.  It was maybe 2m square. He wanted a lawn, so rotovated the whole garden (probably 8m square), including the dodgy bit, and then seeded. What he'd actually done