What's on your wish list or what's new in your garden?

I am always on the look out for new plants...new on the market and new to me.
Some cracking new plants around now
What is on your wish list?
Are you tempted by the latest plant offerings?

 

It's not going to happen but I would love a row of pleached trees at one end of my garden.

 

@roders Same here! Next to the neighbours so that no balls will come over and no foul airs penetrate my house!

Would love to have another Clematis Princess Kate. The one that I bought disappeared or might have been hiding in Kensington Palace, with Will.. I'm mourning for its disappearance. Another thing I'm in tears for is my echinacea White Swan which I must have killed. On my wish list is an array of echinaceas of various colours - white, orange .. or double .. and some red heleniums .. Actually, it might be easier to list what is NOT on my dream list ..

 

Will be posting a picture of Ruffled Swan soon alp......slightly later than Wild Swan this year but with more double flowers.
I keep adding to my wish list......never ending

 

I know how you feel... It is these wishes that make my life interesting .. same probably for all other keen gardeners .. Must say I am not a gardener - just a bull in a china shop!

 

Bull in a china shop alp? Wot about me? Size 11 feet trying to get between plants without stepping on them!

 

Love it! Have you seen Juan Mata wearing size 13 shoes of the newly bought EXPENSIVE footballer!? I like Juan Mata and would love him to earn that obscene amount of money... Poor David Moyes is no longer at Everton and now Rooney is there! What a funny old world..

Crazy world ..

 

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Dammit..I've got one of those somewhere! Can't remember where I planted it, though. Not helpful when it comes to watering....

I've got the Clematis bug again They're high maintenance here but sooo useful for giving life to drought-stricken shrubs.
New plants in the UK take about ten years to filter through to nurseries here, unless they're introduced by enthusiastic ex-pats. What a great thread!

 

To everyone who knows me this is gonna be a little predictable, but, what I'd like is ...............

A collection of one of each of the 122 Fuchsia species that are currently known to man.

 

Peony rockii - and a brand new large garden with nothing in it so I can start again and do a better job

 

Have you tried to grow P rockii from seed, @CarolineL ? It's easy, although the results vary from single to semi-double flowers and the central blotch is variable too....

 

KFF.....you are tempting me now to add more fuchias.......
Noisette, I too caught the clematis bug last winter.....added half a dozen
My current interest is adding more sanguisorbas and persicarias .....following the salvias, the agastaches, the foliage astilbes, the........:rasp:

 

Ah, I'd like to have Romneya Coulteri, a few peonies - Bowl of beauty, Tree peony rockii, too. Daphne the most aromatic one.. Clematis Monty, Freckles for its everygreen leaves, some Cayeux irises .. I must live another 20 years at least to get all these .. probably enjoying looking at them in a wheelchair! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!

 

I keep a wish list in my Filofax (anyone else still use one of those?) Some items off that got planted last autumn/ spring - a newish crab apple called Jelly King (large orange fruits, meant to be great for preserves), a blackthorn for sloe gin, and Sedum Purple Emperor. All purchased off ebay, all doing well though the crab apple and the blackthorn are young things still so I won't be harvesting any crab apples or sloes this autumn.

Currently top of the list are variegated Sisyrinchium striatum, ruscus 'John Redmond' (a butcher's broom with reliable berries) for an awkward dry shade corner - Burncoose Nurseries have it, but at a fiendish price - and some Bressingham White bergenia for the same spot. Needs to be that variety, I am not keen on the pink ones!