Recommendations

[HakunaMutataa]

Need recommendations for flower beds that keep killing my plants despite them being labelled as "hardy". Partial sun/partial shade and soil seems quite heavy. Lupin/bee balm/ shrubs seem to do well but want nice flowers to fill it. Fuscia died after being planted there as have many others.

If you planted perennials in it this year, they sometimes 'die' after being planted but will come back well next year.
That often happens to mine.

I know I'm saying it on all the threads here, but Japanese anemones are just beautiful. In bloom at the moment and last until late autumn. There are different shades of pink and white. They do well in semi shade.

Plant some snowdrops/crocus bulbs etc out towards the front for late winter & early spring

Hardy Fuchsias should be fine, but as diet says, they die down in the winter and then re-shoot from the base. "Semi hardy" fuchsias quite likely won't make it, and most of the fuchsias on display won't be hary at all.

Other possibilities for heavy soil in partial shade are astrantia, heuchera (more for coloured leaves than for flowers), rodgersia - large striking leaves and sprays of white flowers, and the larger hardy geraniums - until you get to know your geranium species, you're generally OK with large blue flowered ones, and dark purple. G. endressii and some of the pale pinks are OK, and flower for a long season, but there are a lot of smaller growing pinks and reds which need full sun.

The ever popular Cranesbill geraniums ( should be my middle name!) are they way to go. Lovely planted with the Japanese anemone.

The soil seems quite heavy?

Find plants that like clay and partial shade?

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