Anybody know what flower this is? plus who could suggest best plants for my garden…

Hello!

Can anyone recommend the kind of plants to put into the corner border of our garden that get’s very, very little rain. Seemingly the soil is quite clay based but not great quality. It’s quite a big area, so it needs ground coverage or something big and hardy that flowers all summer and can be left and come back each year.

Plus, does anybody know what this flower is? Maybe this would be good too? as it looks great for coverage AND has flowers, which we’re after - some colour!

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At first I thought that was an alyssum. But the more I look at it, the less certain I am.

Candytuft

Thanks both - I’ve Just Googled pictures of both Alyssum and candy tuft, and yup, I think it’s candy tuft. I walk past this “south facing left-to-it’s-own-devices rockery” every year, and their candy tuft isalways blooming. It must come back year after year as I’m sure they don’t replant.

Yes Dave’s right. Sorry about the alyssum diversion.

My last garden had heavy clay and big old oak tree, which sucked a lot of the water up.

Have you thought about a species rose for the corner of your garden? They like clay and something like a Rosa Hugonis, which I had in my last garden, seem to thrive on very little attention. Rosa Hugonis has the prettiest little pale yellow rosebuds.

In another dry part of the garden, slightly banked up, I had a Californian Tree Poppy.

They’re both tall plants.

But probably my favourite that I had then and would again if I had the space in my current garden, is Rosa primula. It’s not a tidy grower and needs room, but walk past it on a summer evening and you feel you’ve entered an orthodox church. It smells of incense.