Elleme's Garden

Planted this in 2009. I've put little upright sticks around it in the hope that my cat and the neighbouring...

All over my back garden lawn and underplanted near the acer. A good excuse not to mow the lawn for ages in spr...

Bought from London Wildlife Trust garden Dec 2008. I've planted it along one of my fences, growing it for t...

Bought from the London Wildlife trust garden in East Dulwich, December 2008 - actually it might have been free, ...

I have been given a cutting by a neighbour (Oct 2008) and if it's anything like my other sedums I'll hav...

I have been given a cutting by a neighbour (Oct 2008). I think it's Sedum album as the leaf shape is right ...

Bought as seeds in 2006. It is supposed to self-seed but it hasn't done so far. However I have discovered ...

One of the first plants I grew when I moved here in 2000, grown from a packet of seed in a gardening magazine. ...

Some seeds were given to me a few years ago and I have it coming back every year. Although it self-seeds vigor...

I bought three small plants from one of the newspaper outlets for J Parker Bulbs. It wasn't quite the barga...

Another one of my 'it was here when i moved in and that's my excuse' plants. It's a tall pink-f...

Already in place in the rather shady, heavy clay spot along my back fence behind the greenhouse when I moved her...

I got some seeds in 2006 from a seed swap day at Garden Organic in Yalding (which has been sold, sadly and is no...

It always seems to self-seed in my garden since getting a single seed-head a few years ago.

Bought August 2008 from Wisley. Planted near to back window. Very spiny evergreen dwarf shrub with yellow flow...

Probably Libertia grandiflora, it definitely isn't L. perigrinans. One of my 'free' or 'self-do...

Possibly Torbay Red, not certain as it wasn't fully labelled. Sprouting new growth from halfway up the trunk.

I grow some in containers every year. I prefer it in thai-style cooking to Italian, but the variety I'm cur...

The tuberous roots survive the winter outside in my garden, but come into leaf so late they don't really ear...

I have grown the lime green ones from seed a few times. They seem to come back again from where they were last ...

I have one which is growing into a big gnarly old monster. I cut it back a bit to keep within some kind of orde...

I have two, used as edging. I'm trying to propagate more from cuttings as it seems to take easily. Unobtru...

Pinkish red double flowered cultivar - planted by previous house owner some time in the past so I don't know...

Big clump of them which keeps on increasing.

Back garden plant didn;t come back in the spring in 2009 but a new plant mysteriously appeared out the front ins...

They have to be one of my favourite plants for the period while they are in flower, but they are not the best ea...

I always have a few of these seeding around my garden after getting one plant from my parents several years ago.

Every time I think it's gone, it comes up quite mysteriously in various parts of the dry shade area or in th...

I got some seeds in a seed swap at Yalding gardens in the past and will probably always have it with me now as t...

Originally planted for dry shade, it struggled so much I moved it. I now have it in moist shade and it thrives,...

Given by my mother in 2006. Unfortunately not many of the plants from my parent's garden tend to do well he...

Edging my small sunny border.

Bought in local garden centre probably about 2003. Grew very slowly for first couple of years but put on a grow...

Impulse buy from RHS show at the Temple, London Sept 2008. I was planning to plant it among other sedums in the...

Bought September 2008 in my local garden centre. Planted in the slightly shady border between greenhouse and wa...

Already here as a mature climber when I moved in, 2000. Planted next to J. officinalis on the south facing wall...

Already in the garden as a mature climber when I moved here in 2000. Situated by a south-facing wall.

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Bought from Victoriana nursery, autumn 2007. Didn't crop especially well during first summer, but the fruit...

Mexican sage. Bought at Gt Dixter. Flowers in autumn. Have moved it recently as I never felt like it was in ...

Probably my favourite early spring plant.

Garlic chives. In the picture, grown near to Alchemilla and Pot Marjoram.

Very mild, pleasant garlic flavo...

Bought from Victoriana autumn 2007. Unlike the whitecurrant we bought at the same time, it was a little pot-bou...

Bought late august 2008 from RHS Wisley. I'm growing it against a too-low section of fence, I intend to let...

Bought in 2006 or 7, it's done rather well but I had to move it late summer 2008 due to the need to plant a ...

Planted in a moist shady spot by my kitchen doorway where it is happy - I don't think it would like a dry, s...

Bought from Chelsea Physic Garden in summer 2007. Velvety leaves, insignificant flowers, absolutely fantastic ...

I have one of the variegated forms, not sure of exact cultivar name as the original plant was an offset donated ...

Attracts bees.

One of the best wildlife nectar plants I have, for the small amount of space it takes up. It flowers for ages a...

Bought 2007. Not 100% sure if this is 'Holger' or 'Blue Carpet' as a group of identical-looking...

Variegated form. It tip-roots so can spread, but I haven't found it difficult to pull up newly rooted sect...

Grown from seed probably 2005 or 6. Not flowered yet. Has been mostly grown in a pot, planted out in a border ...

I have the species, bought from the London Wildlife Trust gardens East Dulwich. It was for ground cover for the...

I have it in dry shade where it's spread right along the border from one tiny pot plant - it seems as invasi...

Back garden in shade.

It was already a large shrub planted by my kitchen door when I moved in, year 2000. Since then it's grown a...

I planted two, one was the species bought from the Wildlife Trust centre in East Dulwich and the other one was l...

I have this in the southwestern corner of my garden. Planted fairly early after I moved here so likely 2000 or ...

If this is the muscari which turns up everywhere whether you've planted it or not, I have it. It started gr...

I am assuming what I have is C. horizontalis. The reason I'm not sure is that the ones I have are self-seed...

Planted autumn 2007 in front garden. Attracts bees just as much as Muscari armeniacum as far as I could tell (t...

Planted by previous house owner, who had cut it right back, to the extent that I didn't notice it for a year...

I supposedly have 'Golden Charmer' although berries look a darker orange than in pictures, so I wonder a...

I have this in the front garden. Bought when a thug ripped out the box bush there and a neighbour suggested tha...

Originally lipped into a ball, gradually evolving into a pyramid shape.

Small-leaved version of euonymus, I have this clipped into a ball like box. Has a tendency to revert, as many v...

3 different types, 1 probably dissectum 'Garnet' in front garden, a more upright one with yellowish-gre...

Red valerian. Vigorous self-seeder but I don't care - flowers so freely all summer, in one spot it's in...

Bay tree. Bought as a pot plant about 10in tall in about 1998. It was kept in pots for several years, clipped...

Synonym rupestre. (I don't know which species name is the most correct/up to date one). I am gradually rep...

I think this came from my mother who has some of it in her garden. I have it in a low rectangular planter and p...

I have Herbstfreude and Brilliant. Brilliant was bought in spring 2007 and so far hasn't been doing very we...

Found some growing out of a crack between the paving stone and the house wall a few years back. Replanted in a ...

Bought Aug 2008 at Sissinghurst. It is labelled 'Strictus' but I wonder if it's Zebrinus as the fol...

Gold-leaved cultivar originally a cutting from my parent's garden. Moved in autumn 2008 to the front garden...

Bought late Aug 2008. Moved position in spring 2010 when a frost-damaged nearby curry plant was taken out.