Help- I've got some beautiful plants and no experience

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A wonderful customer has organised delivery of some annuals to me. I've had to close my business until the corona virus lockdown is over and I cannot claim any help. So it was incredibly kind of my customer.

I have one main very bare flower bed after DH Was overly enthusiastic in his 'clearing'. All I have in the bed is one butterfly plant and a couple of hellibores.

I've also got a couple of borders, one is rather dry and flanked by a hedge so I don't tend to have any luck with it.

I also have a selection of pots.

My garden is north facing, it has some sun but not lots. Soil is quite clay rich. I struggle to break it down into fine soil, and things done seem to flourish in it.

I really want to do these lovely new plants justice. I'll use google but wondered if anyone had any suggestions as to how and where to actually plant them as I'm a complete novice.

I have some general purpose compost and some fish blood and bone also.

The plants I have are:
Allium purple sensation
Decentra spectabilis Alba and a red one too
Astilbe red
Salvia xsuberba
Lupinus
Monarda bee you bee happy
Geum cocktail mai tai
Astebe white
Erysimum

Any help would be so gratefully received. In return I can offer help with any issues with dogs or cats as that's my area of expertise!

How lovely to be given these plants. The Erysimum and Salvia will be quite forgiving, it will be fine in semi shade, as long as it gets some sun, mine gets sun in the morning.
The Astilbe like a moist position and again some sun during the day.
Geum like full sun, as do Lupins. Lupins are susceptible to slugs and
snails. I grow mine in big pots with slug/ snail prevention.
Dicentra like full sun and good soil conditions.
My Alliums are about to flower, they are bulbs and like sun for most of the day. Can you plunge the pot into the soil and then separate the bulbs after flowering?
I hope this helps, other will be along with differing suggestions
. The joyS of gardening are the contradictions to the rules.

@Beebumble2 thank you so so much for your reply. I'm so grateful.

Is there a best way to plant the plants out for their pots safely into their new homes?. Should I pop some general purpose compost around the hole that I place them in?

They all seemed very dry so I've placed each one in a tray or bucket of shallow water to get a drink before planting tomorrow.

Actually- is it ok to plant them already, I know it's going to get cooler at the weekend ?

All the plants are hardy perennials, so cope with cold weather. Although extremely cold weather would make the leaves shrivel, but they’d bounce back.

You’ve done the right thing in soaking them. Compost in the bottom of the hole is a good idea, if your soil is dense then some grit would be good as well, but it doesn’t matter if you’ve not got any. Water them in well and through tthe summer give a little boost with tomato feed.

I have dicentra in heavy clay in a partly shaded border and they love it. Cast iron plants for clay Slugs don’t touch them either.

Slug will go wild for your lupins and monarda though, just to warn you!