My garden...

This isn't fair! Why don't you have any slugs or snails to damage your plants? This is just TOO perfect. ;o)
is that Gunnera in the middle?

Haha we have lots of frogs in the garden to put a stop to the slugs & snails, this is the first year they avnt really been attacked as usually we do have a bit of a problem with things getting eaten... Yes it's a gunnera I moved it last year as it was growing in full shade & just wasn't thriving at all...

They get REALLY big, don't they?

Yes they can massive, & mine will probably need a whole corner of the garden dedicated for it once its grown to itsb biggest... I've seen some fantastic gunneras around, the biggest & best I have seen is in an RHS garden in Harrogate called Harlow Carr... They are fantastic plants and great for creating a tropical effect when nestled with other big leafy plants....mine is Gunnera Gigantica....

Will there be any space left for anything else in your garden? :o) I always imagined Gunneras were bog plants, or at least waterside ones. Is that not so? I know the rainfall in the UK recently has been a little on the heavy side, but maybe that's pushing things a bit...........

They are generally bog plants, but as long as they get plenty of water I think the will thrive pretty much anywhere, apart from as I found out in full shade.. I think the torrential rain we've been having here has helped, in the past week it's doubled in size so f it carries on like ths all summer it's going to be one monster gunnera. A neighbour down the road had one growing in her garden against a fence & nearly covered one side of her garden but wasn't growing near any water... We have several other big leafy plants liguilergia that are generally big plants but they are gigantic now & are only planted in a perennial border....so I think anything goes really...:)

Generally bog plants that was meant to say...