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Confused as to why you'd want to kill off all the pink foxgloves btw, whats the thinking there?

Just that they'd tend to be the dominant colour overtime. Removing them would keep the whites purer and more dominant if that was your preference.

I knew someone would be. On the bases that this a gardening forum then I thought it was worth mentioning. If it was a rewilding forum I wouldn't have bothered.

Gardening tends to mean taking control over what grows in your garden. Slowly changing the colours of your Foxgloves over to all white may seem fairly extreme but if you spread the white form throughout your garden by actively spreading the seed around then you are helping nature while obtaining and interesting gardening effect. Win Win.

Foxglove. Beautiful. One of my all time favourites but for some reason won't take in my garden 😒 might plant a few in pots!

Thanks, that’s very interesting to know. I’m cutting a lot of the daisies starting today as I see some activity happening below.. hoping it’ll help and give breathing room for other flowers. Cut a jug of them, elderflower, nepeta & alliums for the house.

if we’re posting our cut flowers….

Deutzias are class, I have a quite late one (flowering) just budding up now, will pop up a pic when it's out and try to the remember the name in the meantime!.

I’ve got a small shaded corner (north-facing) part of the garden behind a wall and tall wooden partition fence. At the moment it has hornbeam planted along it. Some of it we pulled out.
I’d like to re-do that area and fill it with more diverse shade loving plants with a very small seating area, possibly a pond.. However, I’m very wary of pulling up all of the hornbeam (was planted before we moved in) as it’s a great wind protector.. both hornbeam and honeysuckle are everywhere and I know they are both thugs and take over, but I’ve grown to appreciate both after a few scary winter storms. Goodness they really have kept fences and pergolas upright in this garden.

If I do pull up all the hornbeam in there, is there anything else shade loving I could plant to help protect the wall & fence? Something that won’t take over as such? The hornbeam, if left, will smother other plants.

Oh lovely! Thank you, lucalux.

Anyone’s plants flattened from the wind?

What always amazes me is that if grown in situ Echium pininana is rock solid in storms even when in full flower and 3 meters tall. Pot grown and planted out is a different matter.