On 09/08/2012 17:24, Sue wrote:

"Sacha" wrote On 2012-08-09 13:26:03 +0100,
"Charlie Pridham"
said:
Lemon Queen is good stays in a clump (all be it a rapidly expanding
one!)

Just the one I'd go for. It's a lovely plant. Inula flowers well for
quite a while but tends to be a bit thuggy here and it's probably not
pale enough.

Thanks Charlie and Sacha. I don't think the one I have already can be
Lemon Queen, which looks in pictures to be a more attractive and paler
shade.



I have Helianthus 'Lemon Queen' and, whilst it isn't the worst thug I've
come across, it can still smother more polite plants, makes a strong mat
of almost woody stoloniferous roots and a lesser mat of old roots, which
have to be cleared before anything else can be planted.

I did wonder about Anthemis tinctoria 'E.C. Buxton' which is a pretty
soft lemon, but it is more of a sub-shrub than a spreading perennial and
is probably less than hardy in some areas. It is, anyway, one of those
rather short-lived plants, so you would need to take cuttings from time
to time.

--
Spider
from high ground in SE London
gardening on clay