What grows best for you?

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

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

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.

Potatoes.

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

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.

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

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.

Schizostylis and montbretia grow well for us.

Weeds, of course😂

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

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

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.