Which plant in your garden have you found to be the most useful?

Mildred - yes the evil weevil did get one of my potted heucheras, a lovely trailing one that I can't remember the name of. I now drench poor "Southern Comfort" with weevil-killer on a regular basis!

Has anyone else had that odd thing with heucheras where they sort of send up a thick central stalk with tiny little leaves? I've had to remove several of those recently; they were fairly old plants but it hasn't happened to others of the same age. I wonder whether they are "variants" which have reverted?

The weeds, which give me plenty of exercise on a regular basis.

Oh yes, the weeds.

I'm wondering if twitch grass can be reclassified as 'decorative'

Geranium Roseanne. Very well behaved with masses of blue flowers lasting six months of the year. Comes up every year and the slugs and snails leave them alone. Also phlox easy to grow. The best are the vivid blue and red ones.

Unfortunately the snails got the salvias this year and the helenium haven't shown their faces at all. I have a large yellow aquilegia that a friend gave me (a piece of his). He died soon after but I remember him every summer when the flowers come out.

IThe oldest plant in my garden is the climbing yellow rose "Golden Showers" It is full of flowers from early June to often November every year. No problem at all. The flowers are lose with a small amount of fragrance. Grows to about 8ft.

I bought this Hosta as a tiny plant 5 years ago and every year it comes up bigger and bigger and will have lovely purple flowers July/Aug. It only cost me £2 at a Boy Scout's plant sale. Just have to keep the dreaded slugs/snails from munching it!

Put some adhesive copper slug tape around the pot. It's the only thing that saved my hostas in our last garden. They won't go cross it. Just make sure they can't migrate across from the leaves of other plants. That's a beauty, Linsco. I have one similar but the edges are cream.

Thanks greyduster but it's actually growing in my garden border not in a pot. I've sprinkled the soil and inside the Hosta with slug pellets and will have to hope for the best.

whitewave I had a Golden Showers! Planted it years ago before I knew anything about anything. I had this idea of letting it sort of 'lie down' on a grassy bank. It was never happy there and had to come out eventually. Another climber I planted in the same area was perfectly happy and is still flowering forty odd years later. It didn't grow along the ground to the plan though. More like a confused skinny bush rose.

Wish I still had the Golde n Showers.

Your garden sounds gorgeous!

Golden Showers is a lovely, fragrant repeat flowering rose. I had it at the front door of my last house. My neighbour across the road also planted one at her front door, so that we could both see the Rose when indoors!

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I have Golden Showers, but it does tend to need dead heading a lot. I love Pauls Scarlett as a climbing rose.
My favourites are always geraniums. They come in so many colours, are easily divided, and fill gaps. The slugs leave them alone, and they smile their little faces off for very little tending. Johnstones Blue is my pick, flowering into September.

I've just deadheaded the first flush on Golden Showers. Will feed it and off it will go again.

Another lovely rose is Olivia its a pink shrub. In its second year and absolutely laden with a lovely strong fragrance