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wow! another gardening spendthrift, love it!!! happy gardening and planting out. Lots of amazing plants there bet you had a difficult job in choosing.

yes I could have easily spent double what I did do. But I'd have to clear space for them and I haven't quite got round to it yet.

I will check them out! You have an amazing collection of beauties there. Look out for the slugs on those Asarum. I bought two from Longacre. The Europeum did survive...just. But the lovely Splendens was eaten faster than you could say "Europeum Splendens"! And it didn't survive. Good luck!

Wow, my choice of plants, was chuffed that I actually knew them , hoping you do well with them......and if your Actea flowers I shall be green with envy!!

Lovely plants, does the jeffersonia like shade please.

Oh what a fantastic lovely lot of plants. No wonder you couldn't resist! Enjoy your gardening!!

thanks for the advice Karen. I have a few slug pellets down but I don't really like using them.
I had a actea flowering for 4 yrs then last year it diedDD2
yes the Jeffersonia likes a little bit of shade Callie.

What an excellent selection of plants. I think shade is an opportunity to grow delights like these.

yes you are so right. When we first moved here I was dismayed by the amount of shade. but there are so many lovely 'shady ladies' that I am spoilt for choice. though some are definitely ericaceous and i'm on chalk.

Lovely anemones Sbg - I didn't know either of them and now I want them...
I wish we had bigger and better nurseries around here...

Encouraged by what you had bought looking so healthy, I asked OH if he could find the nursery and the answer was 'yes' We were going to go today, but of course it's the silly opening rules, but we'll probably go tomorrow, so thanks again for posting SBG. :))

they are not always open every day so do check first Waddy. I'd hate you to make the journey for them to be closed.

What a very satisfying visit,Sbg..you bought some lovely plants there.I hope they all live happily ever after for you :o)

So do I bloomer. I have too many labels from the deceased that I have gathered over the years. ;o)

I need to sort out a lot of my labels too..only so many times the marker pen will go over old stuff ! :o)

smashing to have some unusual specimens. I have that same Actaea(Pink Spike) .I purtchgased it at Beth Chattos in Autumn 15 but it was really slow to appear and get growing last year....it didn't actually grow much at all and no flowers but, this spring it really has emerged very strong lookijg so, fingers crossed.

let us know how it gets on Paul.

I cant get a really good pen for labels they fade after a couple of years.

We tried ringing them on Monday, but there wasn't any reply. We might try again one day next week.
There's an article in the May addition of Garden Answer about using wooden clothes pegs as plant labels. It looks like a great idea.

Will do......if it flowers this year, I'll post pics.