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Good afternoon and thank you everyone

I wouldn't have it in any garden, especially a small one. In wet areas, it's a real thug. Every verge round here is full of it, and the gardens that are next to any verges have it all over the place too. Perhaps it behaves better in dry areas though. The photos of it hanging nicely over pond...

Definitely, thanks. Should have known ,but as I said brain dead at the moment.

We are on heavy clay soil and pulmonarias flourish here in full sun and shade. Self seed all over and yes the bees love them.

Good morning @Michael Hewett and @Busy-Lizzie and thank you my friends

It’s beautiful, the epitome of spring freshness.

It does look very like the Sunshine Peach.

Fairly certain it is Acorus Ogon, certainly the roots look like mine when I divide it. A useful plant for boggy areas.

I have got a blackcurrant about 10ft away but it's not prickly. Definitely not the same. I don't really know why I've still got it, we dont really eat them and neither does anything else.

Or a different month!

Thank you!

Must say, Rosa The Prince looks fab,

And have spotted in garden centres this year a lot more ornamental prunus alongside it with different colour and size flowers while keeping the interesting structure of Kojo-no-mai like Oshidori which hadn't seen in the flesh that many times previously.

Done

That's interesting @Silver surfer. Quine is a fairly common surname on the Isle of Man.

I agree, hippeastrum. Like most (or maybe all?) bulbs, the leaves die back when it's done it's stuff for the year.

Thanks @micearguers, you've jogged my memory. They were in pots until two years ago when I planted them out. I thought they'd died not having seen them last year.

Wow, 10 metres - needs a hole in the ceiling! I'll let him know to think about repotting.

Hi Many thanks for your reply, they certainly are in a dry south facing bed so it may be too dry for them. I also wondered if I haven’t planted them to the required depth. May try moving them to a less dry bed for next year. Thanks again. Head now held high!!

Ah it may be a buddleia - plant identifier on iPhone says it’s a butterfly bush ie buddleia .