What grows best for you?

Morning glory. Goodness knows why but it dies as soon as it hits the soil. I grow many things, including perennials from seed, annuals and veg in three greenhouses. I’m trying a pot then training up the trellis this year.

Snowdrops disappear immediately, diorama (my favourites) are hopeless.

Morning glory grows well for me but the same seeds are a totally different colour in the ground to in pots

Weeds, of course😂

Schizostylis and montbretia grow well for us.

Peonies grow well in my garden, also Salvia. My snowdrops seem to disappear and each year I plant a forsythia which also seems to disappear.

Foxgloves, which self-seed elsewhere, never do so for me. I have to buy new plants every year.

kitty I’m desperate to grow diorama - lost count how many have expired. It’s got to be something to do with the water level, but really probably the fact that my garden is alkaline.I reckon.

Any plant that grows on chalky soil does brilliantly - so clematis, the actinidea is a delight season after season, honeysuckle is rampant, achillea grows like a weed, geranium, seeds everywhere as does aquilegia. Scabious

In fact I guess I am spoilt for choice, but there I go moaning about what plants love acidic conditions and I wish I could grow them.

Another who plants snowdrops which vanish forever. I blame squirrels. Then I have crocosmia and Spanish bluebells, neither of which I planted, both of which are thugs in my garden. I pull them every year and they keep coming back

Potatoes.

Ooh, I can grow wild garlic too!! Tons of the stuff.

No foxgloves here either.

Whitewave someone I know has swathes of diorama nodding gracefully in every single one of her beds- I am so jealous.

Wild garlic
Nerines
Poppies
Forget me nots
Bluebells
Lily of the valley
Monbretia
Honesty
All grow like wildfire

Dahlias don’t like me
Snowdrops not much
Primroses and cowslips have disappeared except one this year !!!

If anyone wants an envelope of honesty seeds just private message me I have loads and loads

I've lost lupins, delphiniums, hollyhocks, helenium, but wild strawberries and oregano are everywhere, in the lawn, the garden beds, cracks in the pavers.

We're on heavy clay so we lose plants if we have a lot of rain and the soil gets both cold and water logged. Once shrubs are well established they tend to do well, my roses are usually gorgeous. It's the perennials that tend to get hit in the winter and although I do leave dahlias in the ground over winter I always dig one of each up to over winter out of the ground just in case!

I’m good with ornamental gourds, I keep my family and myself supplied with bowlfuls for autumn displays. I’m good with dahlias too, although I lift mine each autumn as it’s too cold and wet here to leave them in the ground over winter.
I’m rubbish with ranunculus, it’s a one season wonder only for me, so I’ve given up. I’m also unable to grow Hellebores, they don’t like it in my garden at all, which saddens me, I’ve tried pots too, but no luck.

Another one here who fails with snowdrops and yet if we drive a short distance, there are millions of them under the hedges.
Maybe Granmabatty is correct and the squirrels are getting them.

Us gardeners expect plants to grow because we like them but soil type, climate, sun or shade are the factors that decide their fate. How many of us see a plant for sale in full bloom, grab it and then wander round the garden looking for a space? I have done it more times than I can tell. Yes I know I should do my research before I buy and read the labels carefully but I seldom do. My garden is very dry so can grow sages and rosemary with ease. At the moment my patch is a blaze of white from the hundreds of snowdrops. They seed all over the place and I dig them up when working on the beds and now they are everywhere. At the moment they are fighting with the foliage of the too many wild tulips which are lovely for a day when they bloom but then vanish. I have planted so many clematis but few survive for more than a couple of years. The four Princess Diana, a prolific beautiful pink variety, have vanished without trace despite following all the planting rules, it just does not like me but loves my friend a few doors away!

I can grow roses, snowdrops, muscari, heucheras, most bulbs but dahlias do sod all, sweetpeas refuse to grow and I can grow runner beans but not broad beans.
Gardening is a lottery isn’t it?

hot lips salvia, it goes mad!

things I can't grow, lupins

A couple of years ago I potted and nurtured some Dahlias tubers indoors. I put them on the patio to start hardening off and the next day they had been eaten down to the stem by slugs/snails. I shall not be bothering again!

Never able to grow lupins, or salvias. Plant and they disappear 😩
Plus cold and wet this winter has killed off phormiums and yucca, both at least 6 years old. 😭

Hellebores, Roses, Clematis, Snowdrops, Daffodils, herbaceous Geraniums, Fuchsias, Cornus, Hibiscus are some that do particularly well.
I’m hoping the Trachelospermum Jasminoides, Salvia and Penstemon recover, as they’re looking very sad at the moment. We need sunshine and warmth! Winter is soooo long! 😔

We have sandy soil. Camellias grow well as do hydrangeas. Rhododendron not so well. I have lupins,red hot pokers, nerines and achillea in the front garden and they seem to tolerate the salty air. Agapanthus also but we have a lot of tiny snails who love it. It ends up like lace. My greatest triumph is a tree peony which we found in the shrubbery masquerading as a stick. It has the most beautiful primrose coloured flowers.