Plants that make you feel happy!

Any plant that is alive on my south facing balcony near Paris.

It was hot enough to melt a thick candle, 40+ this summer, that I had left out in the fresh air. My kind nieghbour watered the plants in the shade but the heat was too much. …. Will they survive a winter when water can freeze …

Nanna8 your garden is lovely, the wisteria is beautiful, its the one thing I hated leaving in my old house,it takes so long before flowering,at my age I look for quick results,,,,,,

Im in s.w Ireland, my plants would be the same as in the southwest of England I think, certainly the same varieties, I lived in the uk and the garden centres had the same plants

For Greyduster, according to a quick search, Webbs and Dobies should stock that Heuchera - other gardening centres might of course!

B&Q will get it sent free of P&P, they say.

I too love wisteria - apart from its eagerness to take over the world. For me hellebores are magical, especially when surrounded by snowdrops. Such a variety of colours and shapes at the darkest time of the year.

Ziplok, I have two Spider's webs, both in pots. The one in a shady spot has grown huge within a year, but the other in a smaller pot and in a sunny spot near the house has stayed fairly small over several years. I did have a third one further up the garden, but it got eaten right down to a bare stalk by muntjac .

I’m in the U.K. and, like others, I’d be hard-pressed to name just one plant that makes me happy, but, by season I would say snowdrops in spring, my roses in summer (particularly Desdemona and Eustacia Vye - both David Austin) and currently as we enter Autumn it’s Eleagnus Ebbingei - I have one by my back door and am greeted each day by its gorgeous perfume!

HobbyCat

I’m guessing this thread isn’t about the UK…

I think you’ll find most of us here are in the uk.
Why did assume we weren’t.

I'm in the UK!

I’m guessing this thread isn’t about the UK…

Every season brings my favourite flower😊. So I start off in January with snowdrops -right through to December - I go out into the garden and gaze at what it has to offer - loving it all.

I’m in the middle of (yet another) replant. This time introducing drought tolerant plants. So they will be my fabourite next year😄

Zinnias of every colour adorn my garden just now.They are getting past their best but still blooming.

This is my jasminoides that has been flowering for a month or so and will keep flowering now into January/February. It gets bigger and bigger, but I dare not prune it lest I lose flowers next year.

Today it’s the buddlea and verbena keeping the bees busy, my summer favourite is sunflowers, they make me smile.

shysal

My favourite is Spider's Web Fatsia Japonica, followed closely by Agapanthus although mine don't flower as profusely as yours petra.

Is your Fatsia growing happily in a pot there shysal? I would like one for flower arranging purposes, but they tend to grow large in the ground and my garden is small. If they are happy in pots, I’ll look into getting one.

I find it difficult to choose one favourite flower, I love so very many. I do have a love of a deeply scented rose, however, if I had to choose just one.

I lost most of my sense of smell many years ago and can’t smell flowers unless they’re extremely strong. The favourites I miss most are roses, lily of the valley, freesias, apple blossom.

Commonground

I love the ivy leafed toadflax, Mexican fleabane, dog violets and oxalis that are finally self seeding and softening the hard landscaping.

I also love these and any self sowers. This year tobacco plants and Coreopsis have self sown really healthy plants in the paving cracks.
Easier for me to list plants I don’t like.

I love big, bright, and colourful dahlias at this time of year. Also adore auriculas. But most I love for their smell - sweet peas, a rose called "Sceptered Isle" and daphne in winter.

A wisteria like yours nanna8 would be wonderful, too, but don't they take years to grow and flower?

I love the garden, thanks Cossy and Patsyand Oreo . It is hardwork as I get older with weeds that pop up overnight ( oxalis and dandelions go crazy) We have a constant battle with little beasties, possums ,funny things that look like big rats so I can’t grow edible veg except onions and chives and oregano which they don’t like.

We have a choisya which is flowering for the second time this year. The smell is delightful

Geraniums are cheerful and I love the smell of their furry leaves. Freesias remind me of my mum. Yellow scented roses of my wedding bouquet and bougainvillea of my little place in Spain.

This brought a real blast of colour to my parched garden this year.

Patsy70

You have a beautiful garden Nanna8, and the Wisteria is stunning. I love my roses. I have chosen some with the names of my children and granddaughters - Paul’s Himalayan Musk, New Dawn, Rosa Meg and Matilda.. they all have a wonderful scent. I also have a Zephirine Drouhin, beautifully scented with no thorns, recommended by Monty Don years ago.
Enjoy the Spring in Australia. (My niece who lives near Brisbane, is visiting my sister in Spain, so I’ll be seeing her next week.) 😊

It truly is a lovely garden

Graphite Alchemilla Mollis is DD’s favourite plant and I gree they look very lovely after a rain shower.