"chrisjpotts" wrote ...

Rod wrote:

If it's reliably moist and has a reasonable humus content you could
consider things like candelabra and other primulas, meconopsis,
rogersias, great woodrush, sedges like Carex pendula, I'd let some of
the foxgloves live, hostas,rheums,Leucojum
'Gravetyegiant',astilbes,aruncus.................. ...etc
This looks like the beginning of a fairly wild (informal) area if you
like that sort of thing.



Thanks for all those Rod, I will look up the ones I am unfamiliar with. I
also thought of Gunnera in the very bottom and we could then pretend we
lived in a Stately Home. I was realy after something low to cover and
retain the steep bank, which is very dry in comparison.


It can't be that dry a bank if it grew HB to 10 feet tall, they demand lots
of moisture, effectively a bog plant. If it's sunny maybe some Iris, the
normal flag type, but not the native yellow iris as that is invasive IME.
--
Regards. Bob Hobden.
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