Help!

Solanum is a good doer, the white flowering variety is more robust than the blue. Grows quickly but is not a thug. No fancy pruning, just chop off any bits you don't want. Semi evergreen. What ever you plant, leave The President rootball in situ. I bet it'll come back.

I hope so. I love the president. There is a small shoot coming up I'm told.

I had The President at a house where we had an extension built. The area around the kitchen was covered with a new path, and sure enough the plant sent new shoots up at the side of the path, through hardcore and into the new soil. They do seem to like being cut down, but we were surprised to see a vigorous plant return a year later.

How about Honeysuckle, I have some in various parts of the garden, growing up trees, frames etc, some in full sun but others in shade, the smell when you walk out in the evening is heavenly, I also have an Akebia in almost full shade

Golden hops would do the trick - I am not sure if you can use these in beer making though.....

just be careful with the golden hops though, if it touches your skin it leaves itching marks, I have 2 & my daughter is always moaning that it catches her when she is mowing the lawns for me (on garden tractor) for me lol

Hi, I'm new to gransnet and hope you can help me identify a lovely flower I saw on a golf course in coastal NC. The flower was purple on a long slender stem. The leaves looked like a broadleaf grass. It was a single flower and the plants were spaced about 15 in apart and about 2 feet tall. There is a photo in my album if that will help identify it. Thank you for any help.

Welcome Rozy58 but we can't see any on line album. You have to make your profile visible to all. Somewhere at the bottom of this forum page are instructions on how to do it. I am too sleep befuddled right now to explain.

UK time is 04:50hrs there are only a few British insomniacs about here at present. I woke up aching to get some pain killers. I have not got my glasses on struggling to type and need to get back to bed. This is not an instant chat room but someone will reply sensibly later.

Rozy, hello, you need to download a photo onto your Gransnet profile so that we can see it

It sounds a bit like Agapanthus or Allium. Is each flower head made up of smaller flowers?

Sorry Rozy, forgot to say welcome to Gransnet. I look forward to reading your future contributions.

I have a Montana clematis which scrambles up an old tree in a very dark, shady area of the garden. It's quite rampant but I just cut it back to about 3' when it's finished flowering and it then looks after itself. I love the bronze foliage too.
Welcome Rozy

I wonder if it's Armeria Maritima common name sea thrift, that grows on cliffs & near the sea, you can get them for the garden in pink or white

Definitely not the thrift as is is v low growing and cushion forming, and has a ball of tiny flowers in each head.
Not ringing bells at the moment. A bit more description about shape of flower and whether it is in bloom now or earlier in the year would help.

Could you expand coastal NC for us? North Cornwall? North Cumbria? North Carolina? New Caledonia?

It could make quite a difference to what plant it is.