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,would expect your hostas to grow quickly to make good show this summer but maybe bleeding heart will need growing on to flower next year i have had two orders now from parkers both perrenials six astilbles were great coming on nicely the six holly hocks well i

apart from our north facing house wall. Plants - Japanese anemone, hardy ferns, chelone, astible, aquilegia, tall white primulas and cowslips, hostas, hakonechloa grass, astilboides, lily of the valley.   I did also have molinia grasses but they were

refuse to cross.Copper rings were placed round the base of  'at risk' perennials and hostas in borders early in the year. These rings push down into the soil, then sit proud to form a barrier. At first they stick out like a sore thumb, but as plants grow

heathers ferns, but in places creeping buttercup and ground elder try to rule.  We do not really have any water edging plants down there and I would really like some.  This year in spring I split some hostas and put those there and they have done really

. The fern can be replanted in the garden.More advice on growing shade-loving plantsGrowing shade-loving hostas.Creating a pot display of begonias and ferns.Potting up a shade-tolerant display of ferns, violets and hostas.Learn how to take begonia cuttings.

Can anyone identify this plant? It came up where I planted some 'Rip Van Winkle' daffodils several years ago. Thanks. I think it's Juncus effusus - often used as a marginal or bog plant but will also grow in pots if it gets enough moisture (which

hydrangeas, even tulips survive the clay. Also received  some bareroot hostas should I pot on first and plant out in a few weeks? The meconopsis do well in scotland in damp acid woodland type conditions.   I grow them from seed, but I sow the seed in late

/mama. Look THIS. Greetings, ThaiGer. thanks Thai   For the shade bit what about hostas and brunnera? There is a brunnera called "Jack Frost" with silver frosted leaves and little blue forget-me-not flowers in spring. Hostas have lovely foliage, in all sizes

. The first week we started this we collected and disposed of over 100 slugs! This idea was suggested by a nursery that grows Hosta's. I can confirm that our Hosta's and bedding plants have remained in full contact with their leaves since the start of nightly

in the centre of the hoop and grow as normal. When you transplant, allow the copper to stay on the young plant. It can be left there for years. Slugs and snails get an electric charge from the copper and they back off. As long as the copper ring/hoop is about 2