What will you grow again (including overwintering)

Well with me it is a bit the other way around, more like, what I wont be growing next year.

I'm getting a bit tired of Cannas to be honest, I might give them a rest for a few years, also the banana "thing" is wearing off a bit, along with Brugs.
All are a bit time consuming, especially when it comes to overwintering.

Mind you, I say this now, but by next spring who knows?

 

Peas.. can't get enough of them!
Hurst green shaft done particularly well. Won't be growing early onward, no different too onward I found.. all 3 put in the ground same time and same methods. Might try kelvedon wonder again but in spring not summer, the last sowing got to a foot and mildew has set in the last week. Terrain and eddy are doing ok got to a foot and half with flowers so fingers crossed I'll get some before frost. Oh also trying to over winter douce provence peas for early pickings.

I'll be bringing in my fuchsias/favourite geraniums like last year, even managed to take cuttings from 2 fuchsias last winter, found that quite easy to do. Going to try more cuttings this week and keep them in the porch.

Will try and overwinter a chilli or 2, the many bananas I bought and cannas I grew from seed. With begonias and dahlias I'll pull up and store the usual way but will start them off in Feb like last year.

 

I'm feeling a bit jaded like my garden. I won't grow as many annuals next year. They are time consuming especially as I grew most of them from seeds. The only annual flowers that I definitely will grow again are cosmos and sweet peas.

I've fallen out of love with hostas because whatever I do the slugs get to them. I may split them and give them away.

I have too many hardy geraniums and they are in danger of taking over in some of the beds. I do love to see them in their flowering glory but this time of the year they are looking sorry for themselves.

 

Sorry I misinterpreted the thread. Please disregard apart from the cosmos and sweet peas.

 

I gave mine a chop last week FC but no idea if that was the "right time" ..it was spilling over the path and blocking other flowers, needed to be reigned in.

 

They certainly need keeping in check - I cut mine back after flowering but the conditions this year have made them grow like they're on steroids. I love ground cover but not when it swamps all in it's path

 

I am ashamed to admit I was a bit snobby about zinnias. But I had some free seeds of Sarah Raven's zinnias last year (or 2015) on a magazine, so sowed them this year. They came up like cress! And the colours are glorious - clean clear reds, pinks and sparkling oranges. I don't grow many annuals, but I'm going to grow these again. As for overwintering, I've got too many fuchsias, so they will go in the garden and have to survive rather than faffing about with keeping them going.

 

This has been my first year with enough space to grow anything beyond my usual sweet pea pot, so it's been a lot of trial and error. Like @Fat Controller I will definitely be going for impatiens again - bought as plug plants in a 2-4-1 early in the year and they did amazingly. Zinnas were also brilliant. I love my dahlias but they take up an awful lot of my quite limited space, so might give some tubers away before next spring.

I have lavender, foxglove and lupin seedlings that have been growing on through the summer to try and overwinter somewhere - I was thinking in the coldframe so they have light but some protection? No greenhouse or polytunnel option sadly.

To my shame for the third year running I have failed completely with sunflowers. I *think* I start them too early and then don't water enough, but of about 20 sown only three reached flowering, and stunted pathetic flowers they were too!

A new thing this year that I will definitely repeat is I put sweet peas into the ground for the first time - only ever used pots before. They've always been fine in pots but the lot in the ground were phenomenal, in terms of height and flowers. May find a new use for the larger pots and put the whole lot in a bed next year.

 

Pete, Pete, Pete! ....I am shocked . I love my cannas. Will get more too. Right now I have several large to very large clumps with orange, red and yellow flowers standing 7' to 8' tall. Here they are easy...kept in the ground unless I want to divide them. Impact with wonderful foliage from mid summer; flowers well into late autumn.
Agree about bananas.....for me the foliage on cannas looks good whereas banana foliage tears and rips so easily. Never really look in good condition by mid summer.
Fat Controller, if you like impatiens check out Sunpatiens. They are 2 to 4 times the size of normal impatiens (foliage and flowers), totally disease resistant and do well in direct sunshine too. I have recently taken cuttings.....in jars of water......and will pot them up in a couple of weeks to produce large plants next summer The usual impatiens will suffer a huge inferiority complex in comparison
Not too fond of annuals....white cosmos and Sunpatiens will always feature.
I grow a few hardy geraniums and I cut them hard back in mid summer. Then they flower again v quickly with a much neater form until autumn. FC! If yours are flowering profusely I would leave them alone and would not cut back now.....they will not reflower now this year so enjoy the flowers while you can. Best to cut back in a few weeks I think.
So, more cannas, maybe a tree fern, maybe another hosta (mine are still intact so good value) but happy generally with plants I have. Will plant out more tender pennisetum rubrum too; already divided one plant to provide half a dozen more.
I have tired of spireas though....magic carpet is the exception....so will remove them.
Zinnias CarolineL? Check out gazanias. Hardy here and hardly out of flower in summer; as soon as the sun comes out so too do the large vivid orange, red, yellow and bicoloured flowers