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looks like u have been busy there. b&q can be expensive for some things alright, so it does pay to shop around.

I've read that they really hate being moved.

I absolutely LOVE this flower !! The hummers love them too. I bought 3 different color a few years ago and the chipmunks or squirrels dug them up and ate every one ! So now I just have the origional red-orange one (Fire of Eden) that I got about 10 years ago and a yellow one (George Davidson).
I missed something about it being the "Hated Plant".......gonna go find that now.

Great photo, very intense color.! I'm a sucker for bright colored flowers.

Wonderful color !

Hi Spritzhenry ~ Sorry I left abruptly, but friends stopped by unexpectedly.
Oh my gosh, that is an incredible flower. If mine looks like that, I will definately keep it. I do hope mine are red as well.

Well Harli, everyone is trying to convince you that this is a great plant. Hope yours turns out well!

I have this one and I also have a beautiful yellow one called 'Honey Angels' which is worth having for the name alone!!

Lovely crocosmia. I planted some last year and they didn't do very well. I think it was the heat. I think I can see them coming through now, and if so they look as if they have increased considerably, so I have hopes for this year.

I hope this turnes the 'Hated Plant' in to the 'Loved Plant'!!!

Lovely :D

Hey Majeekaheads given me some of these WOW how super :)

Never knew this came in white it looks so different than the red ones

Wow, he did a great job.! You also have a wonderful looking yard to put it in.

I love the stone wall and brick path in your first photo.
Hostas, ferns and Hellebores would look tremendous in your shady area. How about adding some hollow oak tree stumps and filling them with compost and planting them up with a variety of ferns so that you have differing heights.
This would make a traditional woodland stumpery.
A small tree fern would also enjoy the shade.
Musacri Hyacinths could be planted in clumps for spring colour with the Hellebores (or tete a tete daffodils planted around the base of the tree stumps along with the Hellebores.)
If you could add lighting as well, the area would look apectacular at night.A huge drift wood sculpture would give the wow factor as well.

Well done. I'm still waiting for a little picket fence to be finished. My beloved started preparing the wood a few weeks ago. It's sitting on the terrace waiting to be finished.

Gosh - that's a big Pittosporum! Didn't know they got that big...

Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!! Sorry, I'm sure it'll be fine!!! ;-D

That is 1 fab obelisk Well Done HUBBY :D

I'm posting a lot of pictures of shade lovers just now - might give you some ideas.
Or, how about hellebores for early colour and aquilegias in front to grow up and hide them for June flowers

For all-year round ground cover, I like the silvery-leafed Lamium and the little blue flowers of Vinca. These would spread quickly, too (perhaps too much for you?)

Of course a plant person will say plant more...and I would too if I were you....but Jacque has a point...maybe what you've got will be fine, and the element you need here is not vegetable...what about looking for an obelisk. Could be stone or perhaps a 16th century statue...perhaps those stones that seemed to lead into a corner were a hint at a grotto..?

I think itl look geat with what youv got already planed4 it&cant wait2see the out come :)

Nice stepping stones Barbara mine are just broken slabs but do the job ; )

Lovely Orange POT MARIGOLD :D

Wow !!! what a colour ! well done you x x

Hello Spritz, I think that your thoughts on adding Arums, ferns and Hostas is great, especially maybe Painted Ferns and Hostas with white in the leaves as the Arums have. They would certainly work well with the shrubs you have in the area. Have you thought of adding other plants that would give you white flowers ? I think that the white would really make the area pop and say WOW !

It looks mysterious and magical.

Beautiful orange, lovely colour!

Carex pendula is a British native - grew wild in the boggier parts of the woods when I lived in Essex. And yes, it is dramatic! It's a good plant - maybe you can get it from a place that supplies wild flowers?