Thank you very much Janet and Spider, I could put the Lavatera on the other side of the garden where its not as bad but I think I will pot it for now as I want it in that spot so I'm going to do some work and try to encourage drainage. As you can see the Lady Mantle is doing quite well that gives you an idea of how wet it is because apart from the Mint its the only things that came up this year.

I have got some more plants today so going to plant them tonight and turn in some gravel while I'm at it, I can't remember their names but apparantly they are happy swimmers :-) will take some pics later so you can see.